Final Product |
We set-up our rented extractor early on Sunday, October 6th and cranked up the heat in our sunspace as high as it would go. (Helps to keep the honey flowing.) Then we started to cut off the wax cappings on the frames with a hot knife - a very messy process. You catch the cappings in a large plastic container and try really hard not to get honey and wax all over everything.
Once you have removed most of the wax from both sides of the frame, you place 3 of them in the extractor (we had an electric one) and slowly the extractor spins the frames and the honey comes off by centrifugal force. The honey drips down the sides of the extractor and runs into the spigot at the bottom. It then seeps through two filters, fine and finer, and, voila! the honey is ready to be bottled.
We had purchased several different sizes and types of jars for our honey, since it was our first time and we didn't really know what the heck we were doing. We ended up with 35 lbs. of incredibly tasty, rich, dark fall honey - an early Christmas present to us from the bees!
The yield |
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