Melting old beeswax and making it new again.
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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I realize that this video is one of the longest ones I've posted, but understand, it took almost 4 weeks to shoot all the footage simply because I was rendering so much beeswax and there is a lot of down time involved with the process.
As you will find out from watching, I process over a year's worth of beeswax with quite a variation of colors to the wax after the rendering. Also, I use a few new practices dealing with straining and cleaning of the wax, so there is a bit of newness to the material, but all in all, I'm taking old wax and making it new again.
For me, the real surprise comes when I find out just how much rendered beeswax I wind up with, and even though it seems to be a lot, I still do not have enough beeswax for all that is necessary for our operations here at St. Joseph Abbey.
I wanted to add once again an update on mom's condition for all who are praying for her. At the time of this writing, Thursday, January 11th, 1:00 pm Central Time, mom is still with us. We were told by the Hospice nurse yesterday that given her condition, she probably had less than 48 hours left. I can never express my gratitude to all of you for your prayers and well wishes. I promise, as soon as I can, I will begin replying to your comments. Again, thank you all so much for your understanding, support, prayers, and well wishes. God's peace to all. Mr. Ed
Just something about a person that just loves their job I could watch all day. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely! I love work! I could watch others work for days!
Yes. And he's always smiling and happy about the little things with what he does
Your mom saw her 96th! That’s wonderful.. People in hospice often hold out for those important things. That said, I’m so sorry to hear it’s the final 48; may you all find peace in your faith at this difficult time, and may her faith guide her home.
I only wish I had 42 degrees! It was 13 on my way to work today. My thoughts are with you as your dear mom completes her journey. Take care Jeff.🙏
Is something wrong with mr Ed's mother?
It is -18°C here today, that is -0.4°F
@@roden70 please read description box under video . Thank you . Have a good day .
Good morning Mr. Ed, You know I've never really taken time to read the introductory of a video until recent on your channel.
Very well written and explains the reason of how this video was put together. Excellent information and video!! Always good to watch you with my morning cup of coffee..
As for your mom, it shows us the love ur mom taught u a selfless act of love for nature and Christ our lord!! As u show us how to love the Lord and his Creations even with this horrible Virus in this world!! You show us life continues and to be beautiful each day! We need to keep going as well.. Godspeed to ur Mom on journey to heaven.. urs truly Mona
Take the time you need in taking care of Mom. My heart goes out to you both. May her final moments here be pain free with you by her side holding her hand. God bless you both.
I could watch beeswax be rendered for literal hours, this is so satisfying to see!!
There is something that is relaxing about it!
I made a playlist of videos dealing with beeswax!
Making honey isn't a hobby, it looks like quite a complex operation. I've decided to make "watching" bee keeping my hobby. Have a great weekend Jeff.
You better believe it !
Sending prayers for you and your mom.
Brother what a great video. I've talked to my Daughter about asking you if she can play your videos for her 1st grade classroom. Thank You for sharing what all it takes to give us arguably the best coffee/tea sweetener ever made. We are Blessed You,Rooster & JP make Great Videos for kids. Please know we are Praying You & Family God Bless
Jeff - I love watching you render wax … very satisfying and joyful. I could watch for hours. We will add you and your mom to our family rosary intentions. God Bless.
Rendering wax is the most satisfying thing besides pulling off a nice fat honey crop! I helped a retired beekeeper who still renders wax for people this fall, and it was quite the experience. He has a melter that holds 6 drums of cappings at a time, then once you get all the "clean" wax out he would put the dirty wax/slum into his wax press that's powered with old railcar pneumatic brake pistons. Everything is steam heated and melts things down quick. Amazing how dry the slum comes out after going through that press. I developed a serious case of wax envy after helping him out!
Sorry to hear about your mom 😢
Godbless to you and your mom dear Jeff , I was at morning mass and lit two candles for my friend who is going through cancer and for your mom my thoughts and prayers are with you Jeff my friend, god’s blessings.
Man watching you and the rooster makes me want to get another hive again. I gotta wait till I get a better place other than a trailor park. The 2 springs that i had my 2 hives i couldn't believe the amount of stuff that bloomed because of them. Now spring here is okay but nothing like when you have a bee hive nearby. My favorite part was to just sit a watch the landing board. All the bees comming back and the ones leaving. That was like watching a mini airport. Just sit here now missing my bees in Lake Charles.
You make it sound so lovely
prayers for you and your mom.
Dear Jeff, I'm so sorry to read about your precious mom. My thoughts are with you and her at this moment.
Hi Jeff. Such a beautiful result. Praying for mom.
Beautiful wax. I'm praying for your Momma and you and your family. God bless you and your family .
Hey Mr. Ed - I did some reading. Wax color has very little to do with sand or anything else. Things like quartz (primary ingredient of sand) and silica (again another primary ingredient) aren't going to dissolve or likely even suspend in the lipids of the wax. That stuff primarily all separates out.
So I went and did some research and reading. The primary determinant on wax color is actually the things the bees are pollenating and foraging from in terms of how that affects their wax production. What I read was that beeswax when made by the bees, is largely a white/clear compound. What is secreted from the glands of bees is basically a clear/white wax that is similar in color and properties of refined paraffin wax.
When bees excrete the wax, they then munch it with their mandibles to make it soft and malleable and then they use that munched up wax to make the combs and the rest. That's where "coloring" comes into play. What the bees have been munching on is what colors the wax. If they've been munching on things like clove - the wax is going to look more like that golden creme color you have. If they have been munching on other types of plants, the wax color changes as the propolis from the bees as well as pollen they collect, all winds up mixed into the chomping.
So the darker wax probably has more propolis suspended in it...
It is possible through multiple refinement to get the beeswax back to its natural white color absent the propolis, pollen, and bee munched up stuff in it. I've watched your videos on refinement - and they're not very refined. I mean they look amazing - but they're pretty unrefined by the standards necessary to get it to just "pure wax" from bees.
So I read about how do you get wax to be "white" again. Long story short, it's a chemical refinement process combined with filtering through either DE or clay filters, followed by either chemical bleaching or oxygenation to make it brilliant white.
I've seen your vids on refinement - those are great... but what I read was a bit more involved with chemicals, multi-pass filters, etc. lol :) What comes out on the other end looks like refined paraffin when you're done but it won't be so oily. I suspect that most candle makers who have white candles that claim they aren't using chemicals to refine - are probably using DE filters to bind to the pollen and propolis and separate it out. That's how pool water is cleaned of microcontaminants - I wouldn't see why you couldn't use DE to filter wax that had been dissolved in something like acetone to make it flow easier.
Great read Bryan, thanks for all the info and for watching. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
This is the part I like about beekeeping, right before the season starts to process all the wax and prepare it for future use
Thanks for taking the time to post this in the middle of caring for your mom. Please send her our love, since she knows she has our prayers. (I think it's lovely that you put your work on hold to go to Mass, that you work around the Mass schedule. Thank you for that: so many people don't talk about this, but I love how your life spills into your work, instead of the other way around.) Peace in God!
Blessed be brother! May your mother have at least a last week of ease and rest before sn easy slide into her last sleep and journey jome. Blessed be. For both of you.
It must be an absolute pleasure to be around you! You radiate God through your happiness and joy in all you do.
Kinda gives new meaning to "Mind your own beeswax!" Lol good morning Mr. Ed. Hope you have a wonderful day dispite all this cold and rain we have been getting of late. Bee careful next week with Mardi Gras next week and bee save. God blessings to you and your dear mother.
Ok I guess it's time for reading glasses because I honestly read "180lbs of crappings."
😘😃😁💞😘👏👏🤣
Thats would officially be known as an"oops"
😄😄👏👏💞🤣🤣funniest misread yet!
Take all needed time Sir .
Many hugs and may God bless you .
Love this. It was a search for beeswax rendering several years ago that led me to your channel. My prayers are with your mother, you, and your family at this time.
The bird song in the background is so lovely.
God bless you and praying for you family
those rust colored ones are still gorgeous id be happy to have a tiny bit of any one of those beautiful blocks
Very cool Jeff!! Love the colours
I do love making the wax rendering videos. Thanks for watching. God's peace Sandra.
Mr. Ed
Hello there. I am from the island Barabdos, and am new to beekeeping. I'm volunteering at an apiary to learn and have been three times already. I love it. I'm also a maker of soaps and other bath and body products. I just discovered your channel, and your love for what you do is obvious and so refreshing. You have such a jovial, winning personality. Your lagh is magnetic and certainly lifts my spirits. Your channel is a pleasure to watch. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much for your kind words and taking the time to watch my bee wrangling adventures, it is greatly appreciated. Also, I strongly urge you to pursue your desire to become a beekeeper, I have always said the world needs as many of them as it can get. God's peace M B.
Mr. Ed
Good morning
As much as I love your videos in general, these wax videos are my favorite and the reason I'm a subscriber.
I use a bag made out of cheesecloth wraped around the unclean wax. Most of the rubbish stays in there. Also put more doubble over cheescloth on the sil to get some more rubbish out. It means a bit, not much, more to do on forehand but it will be cleaner even in the first batch. Together wihh your device it will be perfekt, I think! Good luck and lot's of love from Sweden!
The cheese cloth idea is a good one, thank you for sharing that and for taking the time to watch. God's peace Yasmin.
Mr. Ed
Thank you Jeff
Thank you for that grand upload Jeff. I'm lookng forward to the one about making lotion.
I'm glad your Mom made it to her birthday. I'll keep on praying for her. God bless and see you soon.
Nice job. I've got some last yrs wax I need to get melted down and cleaned up thanks for the video
Curious to learn why you can't just dump all of those buckets in at once up to 4 or 5" of the top. They're cappings after all... Why so many small batches?
Very nice Vid! Always a pleasure.
Prayers for your Mom, Mr. Ed. Thank you for all that you do, I look forward to every new video you put out for us. Wishing you the best of luck with everything!
wax day has come boys
I hope you keep making videos into the future
i pray god gives you strength to overcome this battle mr ed, you have been entertaining me for years and again i just want to thank you for sharing that pure soul of yours,
it always helps for me to think of all the good times me a my great grandpa shared together. loss isn’t always easy but we cant question gods will 🙏🏼
Hey friend. Hope you been doing well during all this. Stay humble, we like to see that smile :)
Until these beeswax rendering videos surfaced on UA-cam for me,
I had no idea the amount of work i takes to clean the beeswax that I buy to make salves.
I thank you, as a representative of those who care for the bees of the world,
and as a representative of those who cleans beeswax to buy.
May God Bless Ur Mom as she makes her journey to a better place. Great video Ed
Please accept my sincere sympathies. In 2019 I was in the same situation that you're in now. It's agonizing to lose a loved one.
Now that's a lot of wax. You have a lot of restraint Mr. Ed I would have been rendering that sludge. However, seeing just how much you rendered from the other cappings I can see why it was just peanuts in comparison. Thank you so much for your videos. I'm going through a really tough patch right now and watching you with your peaceful demeanor and voice is helping me take a break from my stress. God bless ♥♥♥
So funny that you say the weather is miserable ! The grass is green . Here it is white and I have been dealing with snow for many days ! Thank the lord for a tractor . . It is in the teens . Have to wear a heavy coat, no hoses here right now . Hall water to the stock in buckets , use hot water to melt the ice every day . Oh happy day when he takes this winter away .
Hey Mr. Ed ! Thanks a lot for your videos - me and my family learned a lot and we are very impressed when you take some beehives out of housewalls... send you some good thought and prayer for you and your mom- and lightens up a self made ice-beewax candle... greets from Europe / Germany
Hey Jeff, great video as always, just one thing though. The legs on your wax Melter are above the hollow core on the block, (weakest part) I would feel a whole lot better if you would lay a 3/4" or 1 1/2" board between the legs and the block. If that block splits in half you would have a big mess on your hands and possibly get hurt. My mother is in the hospital right now with cancer so I know how you feel right now, know that I am praying for our mothers!
Ed you are making that wax cleaning harder than it needs to be. Get a in kettle screen made up. It needs to be heavy stainless, with legs that keep it suspended half way up the kettle. It also needs to fit closely to the circumference so rubbish can not boil up and sneak around the edges. You then place more water in than you currently use (this creates space for the rubbish to suspend in), then the capping's as normal. Once melted place in the screen. What happens is the water and rubbish are heavy and stay at the bottom of the kettle and the wax passes through the screen and floats on top of a thin layer of water just above the screen. You won't be able to use your kettle drain tap, so get a large jug and ladle out the wax from the top, and pour that through a finer screen into your wax mould. You'll get almost all of the wax out this way and in a cleaner state. That dirt sticks to the kettle screen and can be scrapped off at clean up. I hope that helps, take care and stay safe D
Hello Mr. Ed, I’m sending my love to you, your mother, and everybody you love. Please take time to take care of your family as well yourself through this very difficult time.
Thanks again Mr. Ed...God Bless!
Hi Mr. Ed,
I recently discovered your videos. I've been watching JP for a while and you came up in my recommended. I've been working my way through watching all your videos. Theres something so peaceful about bees that helps me destress. I'm hoping to one day get some hives but for now, I'll have to do with watching on UA-cam. I think your work for the Abbey is so wonderful. I am currently in the process of joining the Catholic Church and it makes me so happy to see people living out their faith and caring for God's creatures.
You work very hard for the Abbey. The wax and everything they make the monks use. That is cool. God bless the work of your hands.
Brother Jeff, a man as consistently joyous as you must surely have a clean conscience. That alone is a gift of God! Many blessings on your work. We will stand together before Jesus some day.
Caramine red dye is made from conchineal beetles, so it's possible that the pink color came from the beetles (even though SHB isn't related to conchineal beetles).
Another great video, seeing the wax rendered into cleaner blocks of solid wax. Thanks for sharing another step in the process of bee-keeping!
burning the wax, the way you do it + with small amount of water, will add to the discoloration of wax as the fine burned particles will remain dispersed in wax as it takes way more time for wax to be liquid to allow gravity to sediment the particles + the small amount of water is not sufficient to retain the dirt present inside the wax.
instead, put all the caps and any other wax in a thicker cotton sack, submerge the sack in hot gently heated water (enough to melt the wax) and retain it there with any mesh and let it filter slowly and float on top. you will get a much cleaner wheel of wax that doesnt need any scraping
Thank you very much for your well thought out and explained method. Learning from others to refine ones own methods is one of the best methods of teaching. Thanks for watching and contributing. Also, I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Excellent work! God bless you brother. Greetings from Poland
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, thank you for your blessings and kind words. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Mr Ed, that’s a lot of wax! Could the Rooster have gotten it all yellow? lol
Yay, another Mr. Ed video! ♥️ I love how the wax (and everything else from the bees) is never wasted.
Many hugs.....may things go as smoothly and blessedly as possible....or have gone, I guess, since this is a month later. Bless you!
Wow! That looks like plenty, but in reading the description, you need all of that plus more, just for your operation.
Praying for a peaceful passing for mom. God Bless her, you, and your family.💕👍😊
I absolutely love the hellos at the beginning of the videos. Reminds me of my grandpa ernie with the way you say it😁
Love and prayers for you and your mother❤🙏🐝🐝🐝
Rendering wax videos are my favorite ones that you do. I wish less was edited out and it was a multi part video
lots of work put into this vid. thank you again mr ed :) remember we all love ya like crazy!
A gentleman I watched used an empty bee box top layer to put his castings in for the bees to clean and put it on top of hive boxes and made a hole for the bees to get into the top from the boxes below, it keeps the castings cleaner. Hope this helps.
Do you save the water/honey to feed back to the bees later, or pitch it?
You answered my question later in the video.
Lord knows I got nothing but agape love for ya, and this is part of the reason why.
No waste.
Thanks soo much for sharing. I like your setups. You have a deep wealth of knowledge. The kettle is very interesting. I wonder if it could be modified. . If it had a second tap gate higher up you could have a disc with small holes that would rest just under the water on top of the blocks and let the wax rise as it melts and keep the majority of slum underneath. Alot less to filter and the colour would be clearer and after you drained the water the slum could be scooped out easily. Theoretically that could save you an entire rendering step. Greatly enjoy your videos. Exceeding Abundant Blessings on the Apiary and Abbey. God Bless.
Thank you so much for your blessings, kind words, and for taking the time to watch. The kettle I use would be very difficult to modify as it is a jacketed kettle. I know the process could be better, but for me, the way I do it works very well. God's peace Jen.
Mr. Ed
Nice wax but prayers for you and the rest of the family. The Wrestler is going or has gone HOME! God Be With Yall!
Happy Fat Tuesday, Mr. Ed!!! 🐝🟣🐝🟢🐝🟡🐝
That is a mighty stack of wax mr Ed.
Awesome!!! How long does it last?? I assume it was not refrigerated or anything. Did not expect it to be stable for a year and a half.
Why? It's a well known fact that stuff like this was recovered from ancient Egyptian tombs while still being 100% good. A year and a half shouldn't be surprising if it can last THOUSANDS of years.... Education is a good thing.
Honey, lasts effectively forever, as far as human lifespans are concerned, if stored properly. It might crystalize, but still good, if you keep moisture out during storage.
Bees wax, not sure, It is wax, so like honey effectively forever is my guess.
Edible honey has been found in the pyramids, and those are quite old to say the least. The wax might have been used to seal pots, back in those day.
Today some people will infuse cloth with beeswax to make the precursor of saran wrap, to keep ones lunch fresh, or to seal a jar for a time. It is reusable as well.
@@Knightyme Had no idea the wax would last like that. I just assumed it would dry out like what the old frames look like after a few months. I usually save mine in a jar until it fills up then make a few candles and coat my frames in the spring. Never saved it for years though.
@@mrtraumaboyy4098 .
Bees wax I'm not so sure about its longevity, which is why I said 'not sure' and 'my guess'. :) Once again surmising, comb is thin wax so it can dry out fairly easily, where as anything we do with wax means it will be much thicker than comb walls so might be less prone to drying out, and thus last longer. Candles are from what I read, are good to go years (decades?) later.
I just googled "Does beeswax ever go bad?" Seems it is effectively a forever thing, if stored properly. I encourage you to use your search engine of choice and read away, some of the articles might be of interest.
I usually never say this but you've earned my subscription! You've captured my heart and interest whist I'm only 3 videos in! Keep being amazing!
Thank you very much for your kind words and the gift of your subscription. I look forward to hearing from you again very soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Jeff, I just learned about your mom. I'm sorry. I went back and watched some of the videos that you feature her. I will miss making and sending her cards very much! You and your family are in my prayers.
Love the video Mr.Ed, I’d love to come by the Abby one day. I live down south near Morgan city, shouldn’t be too far from you
You're wondering why the 2020 wax was dirtier? I wish we could render down the entire year?
Those would make some unique candles if y'all made some.
Very possible they will be used for Catholic candles because they have to be made of at least 50% beeswax.
The yellow to orange color in wax is usually caused by brood comb in the batch.
Mr Ed thank you so much for your content. You do such a fantastic job explaining your work...I am amazed at the entire process of both rendering wax and harvesting honey.
Beautiful wax! It's amazing bees make precise comb: no rulers required! 👏
Peace 🙏🙋♀️
Love your videos sir. Specially your always sunny, positive attitude. It's because of you and the Bush Bee Man that I can't wait to have bees on the homestead my wife and I are starting.
Really enjoy your videos!
Dear man, Today it's the 15th of February 2021. I just have read your informations especially about your mom. I am very sorry. Let's give me a hug from heart to you if you agree to that. Stay healthy. Good to see you and to hear your voice. You know, I love your smile and I like to hear your american English though I don't understand all. Egal.
Nice amount of wax! Congratulations to the bees, for their efforts...and to you, for the rendering, of course!
Thanks for this video you sent me on your wax melting . Thanks from Gene . NC
You are very welcome, and thank you for watching this one as well. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Kathy.
Mr. Ed
Mr Ed - i watch as many of your videos as time allows and have so many questions - this particular video has caught my attention as a couple others i submitted comments - i notice you have a good system of loading the melter, then setting and forgetting to allow such a great quantity to melt - I have noticed a small handful of other youtubers doing the same on a smaller scale with one exception - the others set the melting temperature at around 160°F so as not to boil - each time they use a variety of wax (caps, honey, brood) and the result is a beautiful light sun yellow block - does boiling the wax create a staining effect ? - i do notice a few of your blocks result in the beautiful light sun yellow color but many more are the dark and darker earth colors - i am enjoying your videos - look forward to the many others - respectfully
From what I understand, wax can be burnt. However, bringing it up to boiling in water, 212 degrees, will not change the color of the wax. I have noticed that the variations in color are due to different types of wax, whether the wax is either from brood or cappings. Brood wax is often bright to dull yellow whereas capping wax is a very light beige color. Thanks for watching when you can, it is greatly appreciated. Until the next time, God's peace.
Mr. Ed
You know, if you enjoy a good cigar, you can take a bit of hot beeswax and smear a thin layer of honey and then hot wax along the skin of the cigar. It will even out the smoke and give a lovely flavor if you’re starting with a decent cigar to start with.
Some beautiful wax Mr Ed. God bless
If you use a little dish detergent and rub it in the plastic bucket side and bottom, the wax will side out real easy.
Nice setup. Gas heats it up fast. You can never have enough wax. Blessings.
Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing
Awesome job and what a beautiful bunch of wax. :) May God Bless you again in 2021!!
- Tom
Thank you so much for your blessings and kind words. Until the next time, God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Hi Mr Ed, I have to say I enjoyed this vid and your presentation / commentary as it is easy listening, informative and well delivered, as are all your other vids, I am a UK based beekeeper. I do have a question though, based on the size of your kettle and the volume it can hold why do you put so little in each time when you could possibly double the amount and cut down on time and expense on processing the wax?
Awesome job. quick unrelated question. Can you share with me what program you use for editing your videos?
You always make me smile
I have a question for you. If your name is Jeff, why do you introduce yourself as Mr. Ed?
That left over wax? Put it in a solar wax melter. You don't have to do much of anything rendering it. I think you'll be surprised at the amount you're missing each year.
I'd like to see the lotion video.
As always. Enjoying your videos
Thanks for the video. How did you get your capping so dry and crumbly before you began rendering it?
I use a honey/wax seperator. The video link below shows the process. Thanks for watching. God's peace Petra. Mr. Ed
ua-cam.com/video/17dr9-Z0Ob8/v-deo.html