Osiyo Wayne!
Hello Wayne!
Thanks for the synopsis.
I kept bees in Yuma AZ during production the ambient temp was up to 129 and
rarely below 90 at night. This had no effect on the honey I extracted and
bottled as raw honey. Maybe the ambient makes a difference?.
I had learned that 105 was the magic number but have no way of supporting
that bit of trivia. On-line searching has produced many different temps so
we would have to have a bio chemist to explain this one.
I have had honey that was almost black and very strong in flavor from mixed
year end plants. After one season the honey was crystallized solid and was
too strong to eat.
The canola (rapeseed) honey was terrible to taste also.
Love
Bob
Adageyudi
Staya Udanvti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Fugitt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:28 AM
Subject: CS>Honey Temperatures ( How Hot ? )
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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