Thank you for purchasing honey from our small family business!
We wanted to take a minute to share a little about honey and the natural process of liquid honey turning into honey crystals.
Raw Honey Will Crystallize
Raw honey will crystallize over a period of time and it is completely natural for liquid honey to turn into honey crystals!
Many people like to consume the crystalized honey in the same manner they might eat liquid honey. Crystallized honey is great in tea, on toast or biscuits, to cook with, or even by the spoonful!
Liquid honey turns into crystallized honey faster when it is exposed to colder temperatures. Bees keep their hives where they keep their honey and babies at an average constant temperature of 90-95 degrees! It takes honey a very, very long time, if at all, to turn to crystals when it is 95 degrees! Needless to say, our houses and cupboards (and delivery trucks) are not kept at a constant 95 degrees in winter or summer. That is one of the major reasons liquid honey in our cupboards turns to crystallized honey over time.
Turn Crystallized Honey Back Into Liquid Honey
If you prefer liquid honey, it is very easy to turn crystallized honey back into liquid honey, all you need is a little heat!
My favorite way to warm and decrystallize honey is to place the honey jar(s) in the oven and turn the oven light on. The oven light produces heat and the oven is insulated, so the oven warms up and liquifies the honey! I like this method the most, because it is easy and I don’t have to worry about overheating the honey. The oven should not get over 100 degrees or so and that keeps all the good health benefits of our natural, raw honey in the honey. If you heat honey to over 104 degrees the honey and beneficial enzymes found in the honey begin to degrade.
This method may take 2-3 days to liquify honey depending on how hard it has crystallized. I just leave it in the oven with the light on until I’m ready to take it out. Sometimes I will shake the jar to mix it up and check progress. For some reason, I think mixing it might help speed up the progress. I’m impatient when I want to eat honey!
Another method is to place the honey jar in a pot of warm/hot water. This will warm the honey up fine, the only issue is you have to keep replacing the warm water as it cools down. You also want to be careful not to put a cold glass jar of honey in water that is too hot, or the glass will crack and break. THAT IS NO FUN!
Thank you again, we hope you enjoy Ol’ Cappy’s Honey!
