[Sca-cooks] honey

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Some claim that the honey which flows when the combs are first cut are a 
superior quality to the honey extracted by pressing and melting the wax. 
Commercial honey is also often heated and heavily filtered, which 
affects the taste and texture.  A friend of mine has hives, and that 
initial honey always tastes the best to me, before he starts using the 
extractor.

Katherine

On 4/28/2016 2:01 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Galefridus commented:
> <<< Inexpensive
> grocery store honey is OK for initial practice, but the higher quality
> honey behaves differently and results in a more delicate flavor. >>>
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> Ok, I can believe that the generic grocery story honey has a different flavor, but what do you mean it behaves differently?
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> I think that common grocery store honey is honey that comes from bees feeding on unknown plants or at a variety of plants that the beekeepers couldn’t really track. Usually clover honey here in Texas.
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> Suey, here in the U.S., the food laws and the food labeling laws are fairly strict, although with a few loopholes. But diluting the honey down or adding sugar water to it would likely bring the authorities down on anyone doing that. Does your country not have similar laws?
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> As others have mentioned, buying from natural food stores might be an alternative. You can also get specialized honey by mail or on the web. I know some of our local brewers have banded together from time to time and bought drums (30 gallon? 55 gallon?) to get something other than the generic (here, clover honey) at better prices.
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> At one time there was a merchant at Pennsic and Gulf Wars who sold a large variety of different honeys. Not cheap. :-) But when he went out of business I bought a lot of small jars of a wide variety of different honeys. Unfortunately, as a diabetic, I can’t indulge in these as I might like, and still have most of these. Somewhere.
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