A golden humming cloud of honeybees arrived unexpectedly one sunny June morning and moved into a knothole in the siding of the house. Three weeks later, Mr. E. helped these mysterious creatures into a comfy wooden box in his garden and began to live the lifelong dream of herding millions of stinging insects and collecting their sweet honey. Please enjoy the adventures of Mr. E's Mysterious Bees.





December 10, 2007

Kitchen Honey Extraction


Honey is heavier than wax.  I had a jar of globbed up honey and wax left over from the extraction  explosion I wanted to work with so I stuck it in the oven on low all day today and checked on it every so often.  Eventually, the wax rose to the top and the honey sunk to the bottom of the jar.  Then I spooned the wax out onto a tin tray where it hardened almost instantaneously.  My kitchen was a dripping sticky mess by the end of this process but I did get about 5 more jars of honey out of it.

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