How to Extract Honey from Honeycomb

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufLnOEoaN-c

Duration: 

00:05:26

Year of Production: 

2014

Source/Author: 

Lovely Greens
»Have you ever wondered how honey is extracted from honeycomb? Whether you‘re a fan of honey or a beekeeper yourself, have a look at my tutorial on how I harvest honey from my own hives. In this video, I show how I uncap the honey, then spin the honey out with an extractor, filter the honey, allow it to settle, and then bottle it up in jars«

Being a highly nutritious food, honey quality and quantity is determined by the technology used in the processing.

Honey is a whole and complete food for human beings and honey bees are the only bees that produce honey between spring and autumn and each bee produces one tea spoon of honey in its entire life time.

Honey processing

To extract honey form comb, uncap the honey comb, spin honey out, filter, allow it to settle and bottle the it finally. Honey comb is composed of individual cells that honey bees form honey and cover with a layer.

Additionally, Remove layer and extract honey underneath using uncapping comb or knife and use extractor to remove honey from comb once cap is removed. This takes 5 minutes to extract honey and from extractor, filter honey as many times as possible.

Finally allow the honey to settle for 2 days for wax to form at the top of honey and this is easily removed by use of metal spoon. Use simple metal to fill honey in sterilised bottles.

Sequence from Sequence to Description
00:0000:42Honey bees are the only bees that produce honey.
00:4300:48Each bee produces 1 tea spoon of honey in its life time.
00:4901:21To extract honey from comb, un cup the honey comb and spin out honey.
01:2201:36Filter honey allow it to settle and bottle the honey finally.
01:3701:44Honey comb is composed of individual cells that honey bees form honey and cover with a layer.
01:4502:25Remove layer and extract honey underneath using uncapping comb or knife.
02:2603:13Use honey extractor to remove honey from comb once cap is removed.
03:1403:33From extractor, filter honey as many times as possible.
03:3404:09Allow the honey to settle for 2 days for wax to form at the top of honey.
04:1004:51Use simple metal to fill honey in sterilised bottles.
04:5205:26Summary

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