Winnie the Pooh Lied to Me About Honey (Pics Included)

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Combichristoffersen said:
Australian relative tells me Vegemite is the bee's kness.
Orders a jar of Marmite from the UK since it's basically the same thing anyway.
Tastes like Satan's diarrhea.
Total disappointment.
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Grym said:
this thread is really making me want to try beekeeping. I've always really wanted to give it a shot but unless I'm mistaken, eventually your hive splits and swarms to form a new hive or something? I don't think the neighbors would appreciate that and I wouldn't know how to handle it :(
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Yeah, I've helped my dad get some swarms down from trees - he keeps some spare hives around for these situations.
 
Combichristoffersen said:
Australian relative tells me Vegemite is the bee's kness.
Orders a jar of Marmite from the UK since it's basically the same thing anyway.
Tastes like Satan's diarrhea.
Total disappointment.
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Did you eat it properly, or make the classic rookie mistake of spreading it on like it's Peanut Butter?

Some people just aren't built to experience the deliciousness that is Marmite though, it's okay, more for me
 
I love honey. Local honey is where it's at don't ever buy big brand honey. My favorite is Texas wildflower honey sooooo good.
 
Can someone explain to me why honey needs to have it's own special little weird wooden spoon thing? Why does it get one when all the other foods just have to share the regular spoon? Surely, that bizarre thing doesn't have some kind of unique, honey-holding properties. You're no better than the others, honey. You don't need your own special dipper spoon thing. Have a hint of humility and hop off your high horse, honey.
 
EskimoJoe said:
Can someone explain to me why honey needs to have it's own special little weird wooden spoon thing? Why does it get one when all the other foods just have to share the regular spoon? Surely, that bizarre thing doesn't have some kind of unique, honey-holding properties. You're no better than the others, honey. You don't need your own special dipper spoon thing. Have a hint of humility and hop off your high horse, honey.
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Increased surface creates higher surface tension which holds the honey to the spoon stopping it from dripping before you get it from the jar to the final destination.
 
I don't like regular honey that much but I fucking LOVE creamed honey.

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Try it, it has a much better texture too. Not that syrupy and tastes better.

For those that don't like Marmite (I love it, especially marmite cakes), try Bovril. It doesn't taste like marmite at all but has this beef taste, it's also black and kind of the same texture and a bit yeasty. Amazing though. Not sure if you can get it in the U.S but you can get it in most countries. Not the same taste at all and I know many people that can't stand marmite but love Bovril. Toasted cheese + bovril/marmite = amazing.

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Aiko Heiwa said:
i like honey

we got a bottle of it in the pantry

i hope it's not processed :(

ingredient list just says "honey" and that's it
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Almost all food is processed in a way. Spinning a comb in an extractor to get the syrup out? That's processing in my book. Doesn't make it unnatural though.
 
sqwarlock said:
Almost all food is processed in a way. Spinning a comb in an extractor to get the syrup out? That's processing in my book. Doesn't make it unnatural though.
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The fuck? How is that processing? The only reason an extractor is used is so you can give the comb back to the bees (so they go directly back to making honey, rather than spending time making new comb).

Is letting the honey simply drip off the frame processing it? Because that's all that the extractor is doing.
 
AMUSIX said:
The fuck? How is that processing? The only reason an extractor is used is so you can give the comb back to the bees (so they go directly back to making honey, rather than spending time making new comb).

Is letting the honey simply drip off the frame processing it? Because that's all that the extractor is doing.
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"Processing" is an oft-overused and mostly meaningless term used by people who want to feel some superiority about the food they eat.

And, yes, letting honey drop off a frame is processing so you might as well throw it in the bin.
 
AMUSIX said:
Sorry, but this is such bullshit...whoever told you this, just go up to them and tell them it's bullshit...

This is my hive
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This is a single frame of the hive with the wax caps cut off of the cells, you can see the color of the honey:
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This is the honey as it comes out of the extractor...the only thing that is 'done' to it is to run it through a basic strainer to pull wax chunks out:
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And this is honey in bears...just poured in. There is nothing processed about it:
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This post is so great. Yeah, the apiary I get honey from looks just like this and not like that mayo waxy looking "raw" whatever.
 
The colour, viscosity and crystallisation speed of honey don't depend merely on whether or not it was heat-treated, but also on the type of nectar used in making it. As extreme examples, canola honey looks like rendered lard and crystallises very quickly (though it remains somewhat creamy, rather than hardening like sunflower honey) whereas honeydew honey (which is the only honey not made out of nectar, and incidentally my favourite honey) is coffee brown and tends to remain fluid for a long time.
 
Yeah I have a friend who keeps bees and the honey that comes straight off the honeycomb (literally 0 processing other than removing the honey from the comb) looks like "regular" honey, not that thick "raw" honey that was posted here... must be differences in pollens or something?
 
This thread has me craving honey now. Sucks how expensive it has gotten. Used to love putting it in hot tea. Wonder if you can find good fresh shit during the winter. During the summer there will be stands up all over towns here in central Illinois.

C.Dark.DN said:
Also:
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This scene always drove me crazy as a kid. I'm not even kidding. What the fuck is going on with his liquid pizza!?
 
I've never had raw honey but I'd love to try it.

Wheat toast + honey + flax seed + pumpkin seeds = delicious.

Maybe add a little almond butter to it too. Yum.
 
jaxapollo said:
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First, hilarious gif. Second, if you are upset at the prospect of eating animal parts, ask yourself: when companies are making things like cereal and candy bars in factories, how do they ensure that no insects either crawl into the food or are on it from when the raw ingredients were harvested, and thus get ground up and included within the food?

The answer is, they don't. A large number of processed products contain trace amounts of insect parts; this is noted by the FDA and allowed because there isn't really anything unhealthy about it and because totally preventing this would be prohibitively expensive.

So don't worry about it; you've probably eaten bug parts already too.
 
I eat honey like once a year. It is just too sweet and it makes me thirsty.
 
Aztechnology said:
That's not what real honey looks like... this is what honey looks like when retrieved from the comb without processing.
http://tendingthegarden.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/dsc_0513.jpg

It's more wax than syrup.
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No that isn't.

AMUSIX said:
Sorry, but this is such bullshit...whoever told you this, just go up to them and tell them it's bullshit...

This is my hive
http://i.imgur.com/3BNlc.jpg

This is a single frame of the hive with the wax caps cut off of the cells, you can see the color of the honey:
http://i.imgur.com/SFSts.jpg

This is the honey as it comes out of the extractor...the only thing that is 'done' to it is to run it through a basic strainer to pull wax chunks out:
http://i.imgur.com/zYalm.jpg

And this is honey in bears...just poured in. There is nothing processed about it:
http://i.imgur.com/Jm7Vp.jpg
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This is correct. All you have to do is read a beekeeping book or go to an actual beekeeping place to see. While yes, the actual color of the honey can vary it is a liquid when you extract/uncap the sealed honeycombs and then strain out the bee stuff from it.

That "raw" honey photo has gotta be someone crushing the honeycomb in with the honey or something to get it to be that yogurt-pudding-y.
 
DrM said:
My cousin is living from honey production. He has over 900 hives all together (on two trucks and stationary large hive at "home base"). Plus they opened apartment building for tourists and they can help with work as part of the 'vacation on honey farm'.
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Seriously? He read Tom Sawyer and took some life lessons from it I guess.

Pay me and you can do my work for me.
 
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