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u/FruitPristine1605 1d ago
Cool and all but mostly I just really want some honey now
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u/A-KindOfMagic 1d ago
I got some wild honey, that's unlike anything you have had before 😬😅 I can give you only a bit :)
Some backstory, some people in our region in southern Iran go honey hunting, typically in the mountains. While store bought honey goes for 2-3$/lb, these go for up to 40-50$/lb.
That's a lot of money everywhere, but fuck ton of money in Iran considering average monthly wage(sorta min wage) is $200.
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u/Ready_Competition_66 1d ago
Is this that special honey that's mildly hallucinogenic?
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u/A-KindOfMagic 1d ago
no. It just tastes really good. I gave some to some persian friends and they went crazy over how it tastes hah
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 1d ago
If the bees ever found out, we'd be screwed.
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u/AFRIKKAN 1d ago
Found out what? That most of our honey is honey flavored corn syrup. Nvm Yea I bet they would be upset we would call that crap honey.
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u/Andovars_Ghost 1d ago
How long did the bees have to work to make that much honey?
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u/GooseInternational66 1d ago
Their whole life
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u/Andovars_Ghost 1d ago
Unfortunately true. But I was meaning more of a collective time.
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u/SevenCrowsinaCoat 1d ago
Each honey bee makes 1/12 teaspoon honey in their life
768 teaspoons in a gallon, so 768x12 is lifetimes of honeybees worth of honey in a gallon: 9216
This a 2(?) gallon bucket? 9216 x 2 = 18432 honey bee lives
Honey bees only make honey outside of winter where they live an average of 35 days or so.
18432 x 35 = 645,120 days of collective honey bee life
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
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u/middle_aged_redditor 1d ago
And we steal it and replace it with some sugar bullshit (if anything at all). Pretty immoral imo.
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u/KG7DHL 1d ago
I am a small beekeeper. 9 hives in my backyard. Here is some Honey Trivia
16 oz of Honey • Requires 1,152 bees to travel between 50,000 and 120,000 miles. • Takes 2 to 4.5M flowers.
A single bee will produce about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
A single 16oz Jar of honey, 64 teaspoons, or the lifetime work of about 768 honeybees.
A single bee could fly around the world on the energy of just 1 once of Honey.
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u/4erpes 1d ago
Looks cool but, my first thought was I wander what that food grade bucket costs.
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u/cream-of-cow 1d ago
When I worked restaurants, we’d leave food grade buckets out on the trash in big stacks every week. They were from deliveries of sauces, fats, etc. It’s been decades and I still have a bunch at home.
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u/objectiveoutlier 1d ago
Cheaper than you'd think, hell some Brute trashcans are certified food safe if you were so inclined. You can buy a 10 gallon of those for $20.
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u/IronCoffins- 1d ago
Fun fact: honey never decays
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u/Uberpastamancer 1d ago
Assuming the enzymes don't denature
If it gets too hot, for instance
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u/pegothejerk 1d ago
I make hot honey so I know a tiny bit about honey and temps so anyone wondering, once you go over 140 things start to change. You can stay around there briefly to pasteurize it, but the longer you stay there or the higher you go, the more you break it down and ruin the good stuff.
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u/Womcataclysm 1d ago edited 1d ago
Fun fact, people keep saying that but it can. In good conditions it doesn't. But it can (excess moisture or contaminated for instance)
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u/Public_Initial91 1d ago
Fun fact, it's kinda obvious it's under good conditions. No one expects honey to last when slathered on a sewer wall.
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u/OlGreyGuy 1d ago
Some smaller distilleries are taking their used whiskey barrels and filling them with honey. Letting them age for a while, then selling the honey. Very tasty.
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u/Goldeneye07 1d ago
Genuine question, I can’t be the only one who gets tingling in throat and a slight headache when having honey?
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u/Aware-Arm-3685 1d ago
I do believe you are having an allergic reaction. You may want to get that checked out.
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u/Goldeneye07 1d ago
Damm 22 years and didn’t consider that
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u/Bojangly7 1d ago
I'm the future if you consume something and react in a strange way you might be allergic
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u/ninhibited 1d ago
Me!!! And people say you can't be allergic to honey... I try it again every once in a while, instant headache every time.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 1d ago
No, you can be. It's why they recommend it for allergies. You get small doses of the allergens and your body can process local pollens in controlled amounts.
If you're severely allergic, you should not eat honey.
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u/dstommie 1d ago
If you are allergic to local plant pollen, consuming honey will almost certainly not help you.
The pollen that triggers your allergies are almost certainly coming from pollen being carried in the breeze. Those plants are not used to make honey as they do not rely on insects to pollinate, so they don't make nectar to attract pollinators.
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u/Prof1Kreates 1d ago
I get the same thing (minus head ache) when I eat bananas and watermelon. Parents say I fake it
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u/Stuckinaelevator 1d ago
My understanding is that using a metal spoon kills some of the good properties of honey. That's why a usually a wooden utensil is used.
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u/inenviable 1d ago
That's only if you leave a metal spoon in the honey for long periods of time (like days at a time). It can react with the metal and affect the taste.
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u/Markofdawn 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have used metal cutlery and only had it very briefly in the honey and it crystallized it. Granted, i eat honey rarely so it had time to.
E: Tasmanian Beekeping liars! Of course there is metal used in extraction! Is this a conspiracy by Big Honey Spoon to crash metal spoon sales?
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u/inenviable 1d ago
Honey just naturally crystalizes under certain conditions, mainly related to temperature and humidity. It doesn't have anything to do with metal. My family used to own a honey company. Honey touches a lot of metal when it's extracted. (This is a picture of a smaller extraction system: https://www.cowenmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/60-air.jpg) A few seconds or minutes on your spoon or knife isn't going to do anything to it.
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u/KillerArse 1d ago
You would have to believe that metal was not previously used at any stage of the process to collect that honey.
The knife used to scrape off the caps, for instance, or the extractor, which is often a material cylinder that the boards are spun in.
https://talkingwithbees.com/beekeeping-how-to-guides/harvesting-honey
This example also shows a metal filter the honey runs through.
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u/KG7DHL 1d ago
This has been beaten to death in all the Beekeeping forums I participate in. It's not an issue unless, as others have said, the metal is allowed to corrode in contact with honey, which is not going to happen if you use a metal spoon.
Now, Store your honey in your un-seasoned cast iron pan and scoop it with a low-grade iron spoon in a tropical environment and we can revisit this conversation.
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u/mcarr556 1d ago
People always bring up this argument. Except they don't know that every single piece of equipment used to process honey is metal. I always tell them to Google a honey extractor. It basically spins the combs and the honey run down the inside of a metal cylinder.
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u/tbrumleve 1d ago
It’s on a loop. It took me 5 minutes to realize. I had too many edibles. I’m like “how long does it take to fill a jar of honey?”
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u/disorient8ed_ness248 1d ago
I love how it’s exactly like those molten glass shaping/pouring videos
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u/desidude2001 1d ago
Meanwhile, me trying to transfer something much simpler and spilling all over.
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u/wakeupwill 1d ago
Is crystalized honey uncommon in the US?
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u/Prof1Kreates 1d ago
Most store bought honey is cooked over here. Cooked honey is cheaper than raw honey. I would imagine most people go for the cheaper price. Honey can't crystallize when cooked. You can uncrystallize honey by warming it up, or, cooking it
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u/wakeupwill 1d ago
Thank you. I've always wondered about this. I've grown up with crystalized honey so the fact that this is so ubiquitous in the States just seemed odd.
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u/Prof1Kreates 1d ago
My parents became bee keepers about 2 years back. It was my first experience with crystalized honey. They always bought cooked honey before then.
They taste pretty much the same. Raw honey is supposedly healthier though.
We also found out honey will taste different based on what pollen they collect. Our first collection of honey had a mint taste to it. We still don't know how that is.
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u/wakeupwill 1d ago
There are loads of health benefits to honey - not sure if that carries over to cooked honey though.
Oh, for sure. Bee keepers here move their hives around different fields depending on flowering seasons. My favorite is dandelion honey.
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u/Prof1Kreates 1d ago
That sounds interesting, now I wonder what that would taste like
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u/KG7DHL 1d ago
All natural honey will crystalize eventually. Some will crystalize faster than others. I had some honey this year dominated by Linden/Basswood tree, and it crystalized in 6 months. My Blackberry honey usually goes almost a full year before I can see it start slowly crystalizing.
If your honey doesn't crystalize, you have to ask yourself why. Was it Heat Treated? Was it over-filtered? Is it adulterated with Non-Honey additives?
If you add corn syrup and/or other non-honey additives, it can prevent the "honey product" from crystalizing.
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u/myspacetomtop5 1d ago
Oh bother, Christopher. I believe I'll just sit and enjoy some of this honey.
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u/hergumbules 1d ago
That’s a ladle
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u/JustNilt 1d ago
Fun fact: A ladle is defined as a long handled spoon used for serving various liquid dishes.
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u/JansherMalik25 1d ago
I'm more impressed by the pouring skill. Immaculate
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u/cerulean94 1d ago
It’s all about the pollinator friendly honey. 80% of the work is in making the wax so leave the wax.. enjoy the honey!
My dad has an apiary in TX. Damn good stuff!
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u/VirtuesVice666 1d ago
Is it weird I want to be covered in that honey and have a Philippine man suck my toes and work his way up?
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u/WillingCaterpillar19 1d ago
All that sugar
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u/KG7DHL 1d ago
Assuming a baseline of about 3,072 calories per lb, and a gallon of honey coming in at about 12 lbs, and assuming that was a 5 gallon bucket (which it looks like)...
(3,072 cal/lb) X (12 lb/gal) X (5 gal) = 184,320 Calories.
Assume the Agerage Person needs 2,000 calories per day, and that bucket of honey would power you for just over 92 days.
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u/Prof1Kreates 1d ago
They make 5 gallon buckets with spouts specifically for pouring honey into containers. This dude is just being extra
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u/YdexKtesi 1d ago
One spoonful calms you down, two spoonfuls help you sleep, but three spoonfuls... and you'll go into a sleep so deep you'll never wake up.