Runny Honey Is Shit. Set Honey Is The Future!

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AIBU in thinking runny honey is a bit rubbish. If you try to put it on anything it just buggers off and drips over your plate. Set honey just lays there and accepts it's fate. Runny honey might work on crumpets where it's imprisoned down the holes, but there are more spreadable surfaces in the world that are not crumpets than there are.

And if you get set honey and ever want runny honey you can just melt it.

Runny honey makes better mead tho.

yanbu
runny honey is heat treated to make it so.

proper natural honey is lovely.
you can really taste the different flowers!

and chunks are easier to measure for baking or cooking.

I agree, OP - runny honey is rubbish, as well as being a sticky nuisance to spread, it never seems to have as much flavour as set honey. Agree also with Noneed that floral honey is usually pretty horrible.

I don't sweeten yoghurts and on the rare occasions I eat porridge, it's brown sugar for me.

Set honey on toast and runny honey in yoghurt.

and yes to having the fresh honey comb.
we were forced to help with honey harvest as children and that was the best part: chewing on a bit of wax whilst de-waxing the frames of honeycomb.

Ugh, how can anyone eat the wax/ actual hive bit?! It tastes horrid.

The dark, forest honey is the nicest unless it's really bitter, but that's quite rare TBF.

Teaspoon of set honey in a cup of Earl Grey - sublimely divine ...

Runny honey makes better mead tho.

Who cares? It's not 1217 anymore.

Runny honey squeezes nicely on my roasted carrots - I cannot convert, sorry...

Mead haha!

Who cares? It's not 1217 anymore. Arf
Why would you ruin your food with honey? Seriously, it tastes shit

Good honey tastes amazing

Isn't honey bee vomit?

I'm sorry but I cannot bear anything even honey scented. DH puts it in porridge and it smells even worse that the devil's own food - golden syrup. Yuk

Artandco I saw a jar of honey for £27 in Sainsbury's last week. One small jar. It's not exactly a bespoke shop.

manuka honey?
that is seriously expensive to produce.
or another specialty honey?

I would usually expect to pay about 10£ for a large glass (400g) of natural honey

We get ours from the local National Trust property on apple day in autumn. It's amazing, and you can even tell what season it was harvested in because the bees were 'eating' something different!

Honey makes my stomach hurt. Can you be honey intolerant?!

It's probably the high fructose content that your intestines can't deal with in one go. I recently discovered I'm the same. DH is a bit too. Used honey in our chamomile tea when ill a few weeks ago and got cramping and diarrhoea without fail once it exceeded more than one cup or so.

klaphat that makes sense, I love the taste but the cramping is just awful.

Where do you buy set honey?

larger supermarkets have it.
or you can ask you local bee keeping association where they sell.

Welcome to the set side Hack.

The local farm shop has started stocking locally produced raw, set honey - about four different types. It's only £4.75 a jar. I used to think I hated honey till I tried this stuff - it really is heaven, I've been having a couple of spoons straight from the jar! It's not pasteurised so still has all the health benefits.

I only ever eat honey on Greek yoghurt (yum) and for that, it has to be runny. This pains me though as I am generally a purist and I'm sure that set honey is the 'proper' form.