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    Clear Cloudy Honey - Beekeeping 101 - GF Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 4 Comments

    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:

    clear-cloudy-honey-200pxIs 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.

    This beekeeping video is part of our beekeeping 101 video series, you can check out all of the how to keep bees videos here.

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    1. Kathi

      May 08, 2015 at 10:39 pm

      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.

    2. Seamus

      May 25, 2015 at 1:30 pm

      You can decrystalize honey by sticking a carrot in it. Sounds crazy but it works.

    3. Richard Morrison

      September 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm

      I just put in the dishwasher when I put it on to do the dishes and it comes out perfectly clear and liquid

    4. Lee

      October 06, 2017 at 8:07 pm

      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.

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