Clear Cloudy Honey with our how to video. Crystallized Honey can be easily decrystallized, watch Eric show you how. Why causes cloudy honey? The most common reason is temperature. The honey has been stored somewhere and the honey temperature eventually lowers enough to crystalize. The moisture content of the honey also causes cloudy honey.
How to Clear Cloudy Honey, some info:
Is it safe to eat cloudy honey? Yes, honey keeps for years. You can stir crystallized honey into your tea and it will dissolve just fine. Its hard to measure cloudy honey for baking, so its best to warm it first.
Can I use a slow cooker as a cloudy honey fix? Yes, its a great solution
There is some foam that floated to the top of the warmed honey. That’s ok, just skim it off, its beeswax probably.
The types of flowers that the honeybees collect from also can cause cloudy honey. If there are lot of rape seed flowers nearby, part of the mustard family, the honey produced gets cloudy quickly.
In my experience, we have had honey get cloudy when we have harvested honey from dead hives, and the frames may have a mix of capped and uncapped honey in them. The uncapped honey has a higher water content, and I believe this contributes to the cloudy honey.
If you have frames of capped and uncapped honey, I would leave them in the hive. If its a dead hive, I’d suggest cutting out the capped comb for comb honey. Or just extract the whole frame, keeping in mind this mixed capping honey should be consumed sooner than the capped frame honey.
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Kathi
I decrystalize honey by heating a cup of H2O in the microwave and then sit my 4oz jar in it for 5 minutes and good to go.
Seamus
You can decrystalize honey by sticking a carrot in it. Sounds crazy but it works.
Richard Morrison
I just put in the dishwasher when I put it on to do the dishes and it comes out perfectly clear and liquid
Lee
I have honey from 2 hives and one is clear and the other is cloudy. Not crystalized, just not as clear. Since all are in plastic bottles, can I heat them in the microwave instead of the stove you used.