Comments on: Why does honey crystallize?

By: mark

mark — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:43:43 +0000

wonderful article! Thank you!

By: Wolfcastle

Wolfcastle — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:29:12 +0000

I am very dissapointed with my jar of honey, I prefer when honey does not crystalize. I will try the warming method. I will also find a recipe for honey, it will discourage me from throwing it away.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:36:22 +0000

I’m just going to buy small containers from now on.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:54:18 +0000

I purchase honey in the quart size. Originally I had the little honey bear that I refilled from the quart. I noticed after the third or fourth time I refilled the honey bear it begin to thicken but the honey in the quart container stayed clear. I assumed that the exposure to air was the cause of the crystalizing as the bear was being used daily. The last time I bought the quart of honey thinking it didn’t crystize in the quart….I’ve used it from the quart daily. It’s almost half gone and is getting thick and crystalizing. If loosing moisture is the culprit than I should probably go back to the samller container and just keep refilling it. We put it on our oatmeal with a quarter of a teaspoon of cinnamon. Great breakfast…..

By: kma

kma — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:29:38 +0000

How long do you put it in hot water? Can I use the water from when I boil eggs and just have the plastic squeeze bottle of honey in the hot water? Will the hot water melt the plastic bottle?

How long will the honey stay uncrystalized after the first time you heat it? I saved 2 quart sized bottles that had crystalized with less than a 1/16″ in both bottles. I’d like to use that honey before I buy new bottles. Will it last at least a week @ 70 degrees before crystalizing once again?

By: Derrick Montgomery

Derrick Montgomery — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:25:41 +0000

I noticing that after purchasing 2 identical jars of honey and putting both together in a cupboard (room temperature)that after several weeks one of them had crystalised and the other had not.
I then decided to find out if one had something in it to cause this to happen,so I bought another jar and put a spoonful of the crystaline honey into the fresh jar and set it with the others.
Sure enough it eventually become fully crystalline,I have since done the same experiment with a furthur 5 jars with the same effect,and the original uncrystalised one is still unaltered and sitting on the same shelf as the others.
I think that Anand Deshmukh’s (above)theory is correct and that the crystal’s I introduced acted as ’seeds’ for furthur crystalisation.
Like Matt’s wife (no 7 above)I love the crystalline variety if she wants it like this just put a spoonful into the uncrystalline jars and she can produce it for years to come !

By: chikadee nutter

chikadee nutter — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:08:14 +0000

Hilariuos comments about a very informative article! Bill, from Nov 3, 2008, read Anand Deshmukh’s explanation.Good Luck! Alex Lorenzo, the answer to your question is embedded in Erica Westly’s explanation. Click on the link, Dyce’s method. Good luck too.

Erica, thanks for the info!

By: HH

HH — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:17:01 +0000

“Some morning, when you go into your cabinet to grab honey for your toast, you may find something thick and cloudy in the bottle where your liquid gold treat once was.”

That was exactly what happened, except it was one evening, and it was for a salmon steak I just baked. I love to spread some honey on top of hot salmon to make it shiny and sugary but to my dismay, my precious squeezable bottle of liquid gold was not squeezable anymore. That’s why I yahooed and your article came up. Worked like magic. Thanks for the info.

By: common sense

common sense — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:47:46 +0000

Jibby Jib is an idiot.

By: Jibby Jib

Jibby Jib — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:29:27 +0000

What in de hell? My honey is in a bucket and it gets flies in it. Why do it do that? Somebody said that monkeys make honey and then they poop.