@billyboy8888 no it won't squeeze through the cloth, and most of the honey will be removed this way and your left with a ball of wax. i've done it using cheese cloth many times, its messy but gets the honey separated from the wax.
Build yourself a honey extractor so you can separating the honey from the wax and give the wax back to the bees. The amount of energy it takes a bee to make new wax is costing you many pounds of honey. It will save you some electricity as well.
We are home honey maker. We are searching for for to get more honey from wax but no one can answer my question. Thanks you for simple and clear answer.
thats a lot of trouble to go through, why don't you save yourself a lot of time and get some cheese cloth, fold it double or triple, then put honey and wax mixure in the cloth and twist it inside, keep twisting til no more honey is squeezed out. you then have strained honey, the wax can be reused for other things and the cheese cloth can be reused.after washing.
So I had a family member decide they wanted to help with honey extraction. And they were doing a heat extraction method similar to this. Only they got the wax a bit hot so it was passing through the filter, when they were putting the honey into jars. It stressed me out. And later I got even more worried about it. So I went to check those jars and there wax wax at the top of those jars above the honey, but it smelled bad. I'm worried if the honey is ruined and can still be separated again from the parts that don't smell good at the top? And what worries me even more now is, I was planning to sell that honey, before the family member decided to help. But if many jars are like that, now I've got to live with the worry of what if something in there makes someone sick? If the wax doesn't filter from the honey and makes the jar smell funny later when you open it,... can this be fixed or is it a total loss?
takes 8lbs of honey for the bees to make 1lb of wax... use bread knife to only cut away the cappings from the comb and then let the frame drain into a bin or 5 gal bucket if you don't want to build, rent, or buy an extractor. then you can give the frames with comb still mostly in tact back to the bees and they will clean them up and then start filling them with honey again for you. i hand squeeze the honey from the cappings wrapped in cheese cloth and then anything i cannot squeeze that way will get separated by using a double boiler so i can use wax from the cappings to make candles, lip balm, etc.
I just got a paint straining sock (just a cheap elastic mesh net) from the hardware. Started by mooshing up all my honey and wax as best as I could in a five gallon bucket, then dumped it in the straining bag, hung them up in my basement for two days with a clean bucket underneath, and then bam. Five gallons of clean honey in my case. You can re-smash the comb and restrain to get out the last bit and strain the honey out real quick separately. Im not sure if heating your honey is good or bad, but I wouldnt if theres a simple method to avoid it. Now to make some mead!
Thank you! I’ve been given a yar of honey and wax straight from the hive. Now I now what to do with it :) The one who gave it to me just dags ALL of it so I can not get any tips from there. So, again, thank you!
this is a stupid question, i know but could you just heat the honey to melt the beeswax then remove the beeswax from the honey? honey is more dense than beeswax so i think it might be the same as removing impurities when you're smelting iron.
Proteins disintegrate at 104 degrees, so she is, in fact cauterizing it some. Heating is cauterizing; pasteurizing is heating to the point of boiling in an enclosed system.
Thank you Wendy, I had to separate some honey from combs that my bees had built on the hive roof and this tip was excellent.
Good hints in comments as well... and Thank you for smooth vocals and no loud background music..
@billyboy8888 no it won't squeeze through the cloth, and most of the honey will be removed this way and your left with a ball of wax. i've done it using cheese cloth many times, its messy but gets the honey separated from the wax.
Build yourself a honey extractor so you can separating the honey from the wax and give the wax back to the bees. The amount of energy it takes a bee to make new wax is costing you many pounds of honey. It will save you some electricity as well.
I would avoid steel products which affect the enzymes in the raw honey ...is that true?
Hi, so it's okay to give that honey back to the bees even after heating? What if I used a microwave?
Thank you so much I just got the most amazing honey from the combe blessed are we for the bees!!
We are home honey maker. We are searching for for to get more honey from wax but no one can answer my question. Thanks you for simple and clear answer.
@jda1961 isnt wax too soft for that? i mean you can probably squeeze the wax through the cloth
thats a lot of trouble to go through, why don't you save yourself a lot of time and get some cheese cloth, fold it double or triple, then put honey and wax mixure in the cloth and twist it inside, keep twisting til no more honey is squeezed out. you then have strained honey, the wax can be reused for other things and the cheese cloth can be reused.after washing.
thanks for teaching us madam' i love it....
Loved your video since I like to see how others are doing things.
not the best method and hard on the bees who have to rebuild comb
sweet! haha
So I had a family member decide they wanted to help with honey extraction. And they were doing a heat extraction method similar to this. Only they got the wax a bit hot so it was passing through the filter, when they were putting the honey into jars. It stressed me out. And later I got even more worried about it. So I went to check those jars and there wax wax at the top of those jars above the honey, but it smelled bad.
I'm worried if the honey is ruined and can still be separated again from the parts that don't smell good at the top?
And what worries me even more now is, I was planning to sell that honey, before the family member decided to help. But if many jars are like that, now I've got to live with the worry of what if something in there makes someone sick?
If the wax doesn't filter from the honey and makes the jar smell funny later when you open it,... can this be fixed or is it a total loss?
takes 8lbs of honey for the bees to make 1lb of wax... use bread knife to only cut away the cappings from the comb and then let the frame drain into a bin or 5 gal bucket if you don't want to build, rent, or buy an extractor. then you can give the frames with comb still mostly in tact back to the bees and they will clean them up and then start filling them with honey again for you. i hand squeeze the honey from the cappings wrapped in cheese cloth and then anything i cannot squeeze that way will get separated by using a double boiler so i can use wax from the cappings to make candles, lip balm, etc.
Why don't you strain the honey first through the larger sieve before heating it in the crock pot? Time is cheap, electricity isn't.
Heating honey is a disaster!!!
nice method, and it gives your bees a treat too!
It is important to them that the honey isn't safe 🤣😂
~ 50 ºC
I just got a paint straining sock (just a cheap elastic mesh net) from the hardware. Started by mooshing up all my honey and wax as best as I could in a five gallon bucket, then dumped it in the straining bag, hung them up in my basement for two days with a clean bucket underneath, and then bam. Five gallons of clean honey in my case. You can re-smash the comb and restrain to get out the last bit and strain the honey out real quick separately. Im not sure if heating your honey is good or bad, but I wouldnt if theres a simple method to avoid it. Now to make some mead!
Thank you! I’ve been given a yar of honey and wax straight from the hive. Now I now what to do with it :) The one who gave it to me just dags ALL of it so I can not get any tips from there. So, again, thank you!
Hi Wendy, great video! Please let me know if the bees wax is propolis. Also let me know if you sell 1 lb or so of it. Thanks again, Wendy!
Really useful video - from 10yrs ago! Thanks
Help please contact me I need help with my honey processing
Can you use this leftover wax for diy beauty or not?
Does anybody knows how to separate wax from propolis?
put in double boiler melt it strain through cheesecloth
this is a stupid question, i know but could you just heat the honey to melt the beeswax then remove the beeswax from the honey? honey is more dense than beeswax so i think it might be the same as removing impurities when you're smelting iron.
Proteins disintegrate at 104 degrees, so she is, in fact cauterizing it some. Heating is cauterizing; pasteurizing is heating to the point of boiling in an enclosed system.
how much honey do you get? from how many hives?
Homesteading ...Why not do top bar hives
If you use a spoon it might go faster
Great info ... tastes good too!
Mam u r so BEAUTIFUL
Wow cool
Merci bravou
Thanks for this!