How to store Honey?
People often contact DrBeekeeper to ask about storing their honey.
It’s really quite simple if you follow this golden rule:
- Honey is best stored at room temperature (ideally at around 21ºC).
A kitchen cupboard is ideal. Avoid storing honey on a window sill where the night temperature can drop quite low or in the fridge (although interestingly honey will actually crystallise less at really cold temperatures; I will tell you why in a future post).
My wonderful honey has crystallised… Now what?
Many people throw their honey out when it starts to crystallise. But this is a hasty response and an expensive mistake.
Honey will naturally crystallise, and this happens for many reasons and at different speeds depending on the type of honey.
The key point for now is that the storage temperature really does influence how quickly honey will crystallise and crystallisation is most rapid around 10-15 ºC.
What to do with crystallised honey?
If your honey crystallizes, simply follow these 6 steps:
- Bring a pan of water to the boil
- Turn off the heat and wait a few minutes (for best results the water should be around 40 ºC)
- Place the jar of honey in the warm water
- Remove the lid (but don’t allow water to get in)
- Allow the honey and water to cool together.
- Fasten lid and dry the jar ready for storage.
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