Morning Charles, Heidrun, and everyone who contributed to the honey
facts,
I am definitely not claiming infallibility, but everything I have
ready says that 110-115 degrees is the point at which enzymes start
being deactivated/destroyed, but I am definitely open to learning
this is wrong.
The bee keeper I talked to said 120 was the destruction temp was why
he set the temp for 110. Don't know where he got his information.
I think different numbers will exist for sure.
I wonder if there is a right and wrong relative to this temperature.
I have read that storage alone will cause enzyme destruction.
Some of the articles talk about "Half Life" of the enzymes.
These are expressed in hours and days relative to temperature.
Why not keep it in a cooler?
I think the best bet is to buy or harvest the honey in the comb, and leave
it there of let it drain in the kitchen, as I have done many times.
I have found wild hives and collect 3 or 4 dish pans of the comb and honey.
Storing honey is a problem no matter what. Some of the effects of
storage are not desirable.
As most of you know, the dark honey has a higher content of most minerals.
Bee keepers soon learn which honey from specific blooms they like the best.
I like the square weed honey. It is a distinctive plant with a
square stem and has a violet or purple bloom.
The important thing is to have the hives empty and well maintained
when your favorite bloom occurs.
I never studied this as much as I normally study things because I
knew 3 people that thought they knew everything, working hundreds or
hives each and one worked 1000 hives.
I fully realize that the number of hives and the years doing it does
not mean they are right about everything.
Here is a link that will be interesting to many. It is from a USDA yearbook.
http://www.beesource.com/pov/usda/beekpUSA82.htm
I use another product that is likely the worlds second best sweetner.
That is blackstrap. Typically, I take a few tsp per day just for
the minerals. Blackstrap is the highest in potassium of any food I have seen.
The dark honey is much higher in potassium than the light honey.
Unless 3 computers crash, I am still keeping all the silver list messages.
Must be close to 100,000 by now. I do delete many of the "Nothing"
messages. Some quote 100 lines and write one line.
Been meaning to address that problem also.
I have 3 or 4 good hard drives on the table. About time to plug one
up and make an archive copy and stick it in the safe.
Wayne
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