honey straining methods

[kdm]

I have in the last few years been straining the honey through a nylon stocking. I use a new one to keep out toe jam. My tank is 38 in. from the floor. I clamp it to the ball valve and put a 5 gal bucket under it. When the honey starts flowing the sock will stretch to the bottom of the bucket until you cut off the flow. works on warm [room temp.] honey.

[Joe D]

After extruding the honey into a 5 gal bucket I let it sit for a couple of days.  Then dip of the cappings off with a big spoon with holes in it.  I then put a 5 gal paint strainer over a clean bucket and pour honey from another bucket into that one. I don't have a vat or tank yet.  I did get some big stainless wire mesh strainers the other day plan to try next time.  Good luck.


Joe

[AllenF]

Never over look the value of adding a little toe jam flavor to the honey.     

[VolunteerK9]

Never over look the value of adding a little toe jam flavor to the honey.     

Nothing like some Toe Jam Honey and Buttered Biscuits..

[saperica]

Hi you can use a small fruit/grape press for this pourpose. google "konstantin kirsch honig presse" from there i see this method. of course in Germany they have a raw honey that call "presst honig" and that comes from whole year honey ghatering in skeps on virgin foundations.

[kdm]

The honey has been extracted and in a settling tank before straining.

[kdm]

Allenf & volunteerk9 you thank toe jam honey has a flavor, i once drove a swarm of bees from Ark to Il & the queen crossed with a tumble bug and you know what the honey flavor was like. had to put them down,

[beehappy1950]

Good one KDM. Ha.

[Oblio13]

I usually just harvest a frame at a time, when my wife says we're out of honey. I hold the foundationless frame over a big bowl, cut it out and let it plop in, then cut it up with a knife. The goal is to cut every cell. Then I spoon it into a Mason jar, and tape that jar over another with a piece of window screen in between. Put them in the sun for a few hours and you have a jar of strained honey and a jar of wax ready to be melted.

[yockey5]

Kinda need.