I have several hives and after a honey harvest I hate to waste the beeswax, here is a way you can save it. Comment if you have any questions, I'm happy to help.
Youll regret the honey down the drain. It builds up inside the pipes when it cools off. I use a stock pot and dump it into the garden. The particles that sink to the bottom are nearly pure propolis. It doesnt float.
use a bucket to filter it thru a cotton pillowcase- it will filter everything and you can do that right after the first step of melting it without water- like a double boiler then filter it thru a pillowcase into a plastic food grade bucket.
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Hi, since you are a beeswax expert, I thought perhaps you can answer a question: I recently purchased some pure beeswax in block form but it is SO hard to cut - can I melt the entire piece and use what I need at one time and let the unused portion set up and re-melt it another time? I don't know if it's safe to re-heat beeswax more than once. If it IS safe to re-melt the waxy, I was thinking I could melt the whole thing and pour it into silicone ice cube trays and then I'd have it in small pieces for re-melting later, what do you think of that idea? Thank you!
Beeswax will not release dangerous gases or byproducts when melted or re-melted. Beeswax will not degrade when melted or re-melted. Beeswax melting and re-melting does however include best practices, including: 1) melting outdoors due to the difficult-to-remove nature of beeswax if it gets into indoor items like clothing, furniture, appliances, and flooring; 2) melting inside the top portion of a double boiler, a heating vessel where the top is used for heating and the heat is supplied by heated/ boiling water in a bottom vessel that gets the direct heat. This protects the beeswax from overheating and provides consistent and even heat; 3) heating in a vessel with at least twice the volume as the wax being melted. This keeps everyone and everything safe from any movement of hit wax since it will be contained in the large vessel; 4) Straining any wax as needed to remove impurities. Straining can use metal screen, pantyhose, etc. 5) casting molten wax into molds like a baking pan lined with parchment, a silicone mold, etc. and leaving the wax to solidify in the mold before removing.
This is a great idea! I have a 1 pound block and grated a bit last night for a salve and it was so hard! I’d rather go to the thrift store and by some cheap tools and melt the whole brick and pour into silicone molds and freeze like you said!
@@kelleyleblanc5025 Hi! Yes, it's really hard to cut and I tried grating it, too - don't want to do that! So I'll tell you what I did ... I was going to get the silicone ice trays but instead I got two small muffin pans with six compartments in each one and melted the remaining block that I had and poured it into the pans, evenly divided. I let them set up and then covered tightly with foil and put the pans with my project materials in the cabinet. Now I can just pop one or two or more out as needed and melt. The only thing is, I'm not sure if it's ok to leave them in the pans or if it would be best to take them out and store in plastic bags. Maybe the company could weigh in on that. I do think the silicone ice trays would work good, too. But I don't think you'd put them in the freezer, just let the beeswax cool down and set up. This is so much easier than trying to cut a section from the block every time you need to melt it. 😃
@@qso3566 thank you for telling me what you did. It certainly helps and gives me ideas! You are right it won’t need to be freezer first. I didn’t think of that at first lol. I’m sure they would be fine in bags or a container. My block came wrapped in tissue paper. I haven’t tried muffin cups but I found the silicone molds a lot easier to “pop” things out of.
@@kelleyleblanc5025 You're welcome! I'd never worked with beeswax before so it's been a bit of a learning curve for me, and it helps to get feedback from others. Yes, I bet the silicone molds make it even easier. Good luck working with the wax!
Hi there. Could you please share the link to the seller on Amazon from whom you purchased the moulds? I see one seller selling one mould for $50. Is that it?
@@CharlesCromer I built a wax melter from a Dadant plan, I think. It was back in the days before the internet, can you imagine that? Anyway, look up 'solar wax melter'. A 20 X 30 inch unit might do the job. Basicly just an insulated box with a glass cover, tilted about 30 degrees toward the sun with a cheese cloth debres trap. Only works when the sun is shining. As hot as it is this summer, placing a good bit of wax in a closed up auto should also work. Put wax in a cotton jelly bag, hang from a wood rack of some sort, with a glass catch pan under it. After dark, remove the melted wax, replace with another set up for another run the next day. The concept is simple, one does not need to be an engineering genius to get clean wax. Good luck. Cheers, Bob.
Not a fan of the “use it once, and throw away” mindset. Why would you not put your melt pot on the shelf and use it again next year?
Discovered your channel today. Thank you, for making this simple to understand.
Youll regret the honey down the drain. It builds up inside the pipes when it cools off.
I use a stock pot and dump it into the garden.
The particles that sink to the bottom are nearly pure propolis. It doesnt float.
When i seen you smell that block of wax, i remembered why i started doing this. Better than a brick made of metal, indeed.
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I just subbed and I’m so stinking excited to check out your videos.
I think that the beeswax block was so cool!
Water through wax in strainer should make great mead!
use a bucket to filter it thru a cotton pillowcase- it will filter everything and you can do that right after the first step of melting it without water- like a double boiler then filter it thru a pillowcase into a plastic food grade bucket.
Very good video! Good luck on your channel. Since I'm old enough to be your grandfather, a piece of advice. Leave your clothes on. So many channels from people who don't have anything to say so they hang their a$$ out for likes. I admire beautiful woman as much as the next guy but there are websites for that. UA-cam is the modern ENCYCLOPEDIA where the transfer of knowledge is infinite. Don't need to ruin it with smut.
Hi, since you are a beeswax expert, I thought perhaps you can answer a question: I recently purchased some pure beeswax in block form but it is SO hard to cut - can I melt the entire piece and use what I need at one time and let the unused portion set up and re-melt it another time? I don't know if it's safe to re-heat beeswax more than once. If it IS safe to re-melt the waxy, I was thinking I could melt the whole thing and pour it into silicone ice cube trays and then I'd have it in small pieces for re-melting later, what do you think of that idea? Thank you!
Beeswax will not release dangerous gases or byproducts when melted or re-melted. Beeswax will not degrade when melted or re-melted. Beeswax melting and re-melting does however include best practices, including: 1) melting outdoors due to the difficult-to-remove nature of beeswax if it gets into indoor items like clothing, furniture, appliances, and flooring; 2) melting inside the top portion of a double boiler, a heating vessel where the top is used for heating and the heat is supplied by heated/ boiling water in a bottom vessel that gets the direct heat. This protects the beeswax from overheating and provides consistent and even heat; 3) heating in a vessel with at least twice the volume as the wax being melted. This keeps everyone and everything safe from any movement of hit wax since it will be contained in the large vessel; 4) Straining any wax as needed to remove impurities. Straining can use metal screen, pantyhose, etc. 5) casting molten wax into molds like a baking pan lined with parchment, a silicone mold, etc. and leaving the wax to solidify in the mold before removing.
This is a great idea! I have a 1 pound block and grated a bit last night for a salve and it was so hard! I’d rather go to the thrift store and by some cheap tools and melt the whole brick and pour into silicone molds and freeze like you said!
@@kelleyleblanc5025 Hi! Yes, it's really hard to cut and I tried grating it, too - don't want to do that! So I'll tell you what I did ... I was going to get the silicone ice trays but instead I got two small muffin pans with six compartments in each one and melted the remaining block that I had and poured it into the pans, evenly divided. I let them set up and then covered tightly with foil and put the pans with my project materials in the cabinet. Now I can just pop one or two or more out as needed and melt. The only thing is, I'm not sure if it's ok to leave them in the pans or if it would be best to take them out and store in plastic bags. Maybe the company could weigh in on that. I do think the silicone ice trays would work good, too. But I don't think you'd put them in the freezer, just let the beeswax cool down and set up. This is so much easier than trying to cut a section from the block every time you need to melt it. 😃
@@qso3566 thank you for telling me what you did. It certainly helps and gives me ideas! You are right it won’t need to be freezer first. I didn’t think of that at first lol. I’m sure they would be fine in bags or a container. My block came wrapped in tissue paper. I haven’t tried muffin cups but I found the silicone molds a lot easier to “pop” things out of.
@@kelleyleblanc5025 You're welcome! I'd never worked with beeswax before so it's been a bit of a learning curve for me, and it helps to get feedback from others. Yes, I bet the silicone molds make it even easier. Good luck working with the wax!
Hi there. Could you please share the link to the seller on Amazon from whom you purchased the moulds? I see one seller selling one mould for $50. Is that it?
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Yeah. That is the one. Kinda pricey but they last you forever. Store them in a plastic bag away from dust!
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Does the entrained honey boil out?
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Too much work. Make a solar wax melter for getting a fairly clean first melt, then boil later, cleaner chunks.
Do you have a video doing this method by chance?
@@CharlesCromer I built a wax melter from a Dadant plan, I think. It was back in the days before the internet, can you imagine that? Anyway, look up 'solar wax melter'. A 20 X 30 inch unit might do the job. Basicly just an insulated box with a glass cover, tilted about 30 degrees toward the sun with a cheese cloth debres trap. Only works when the sun is shining. As hot as it is this summer, placing a good bit of wax in a closed up auto should also work. Put wax in a cotton jelly bag, hang from a wood rack of some sort, with a glass catch pan under it. After dark, remove the melted wax, replace with another set up for another run the next day. The concept is simple, one does not need to be an engineering genius to get clean wax. Good luck. Cheers, Bob.