Runny Honey Is Shit. Set Honey Is The Future!

[TiggyD]

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.

I only use honey for porridge, yoghurt and cooking. Never buy set honey!

Kurri I come from a beekeeping family too - it's exactly like you describe. That feeling of every surface in the house (it seemed) being slightly 'tacky' during harvesting season. And various bits of jerry rigged wood and glass in sunny spots of the garden to 'clean' up old wax. And especially the thrill of eating comb honey fresh from the frame.

My family still have hives but I'm never there when the excitement happens. Never have to buy honey though!

Definitely looking forward to trying this now :)

I had runny honey once that decided it wanted to be set honey (ideas above its station). It crystallised in the bottle - which was a proper pain in the proverbials, as I wanted it for a teriyaki-type marinade for some chicken.

As @TiggyD said in her OP, set honey melts, so I decided to warm this honey in the microwave, so I could use it.

Unfortunately the hot honey made the bottle soften and fall over, and the hot honey pressurised enough to squirt out of the little soft valve thing at the top - so the bottle was slumped on its side, squirting honey around the whole of the inside of the microwave - and out into the kitchen, and at me, when I opened the microwave door.

I said a lot of sweary words whilst I was trying to de-honey the kitchen, the microwave and me.

We keep bees, the dark honey that had over-wintered was just incredible in this years harvest.

I cried though as DH managed to lose several pounds of fresh honey onto a carpet. Cleaning the carpet was tough, wasting all the bees hard work was worse.

Twoevils - I had forgotten the wood and glass constructions rigged up on the lawn

Beekeepers are a special breed, my Dad died five years ago but the smell of honey, brings back memories of summer and bee paraphenalia and dad in his white overalls and veil wafting a smoker around, and dashing out with a big biscuit tin to get swarms from people's gardens.
And the endless dinner table chat about varroa and foulbrood
Very happy memories.

any beekeeper children who were forced to have a spoonfull of propolis at the first sign of a cold?
now that is vile stuff :o

Chinese runny honey is horrible.

Oh yes goggles magical (if foul) stuff. We also had a jar of bee 'chewing-gum' which I believe was propolis wax or some such. It was much vaunted as a treat equal to sweets - but we were never convinced (it in no way looked like Hubba Bubba!)

Omg!!! Set honey is AMAZING, me and ds1's new favourite

It's all bee spit as far as I can tell.

I love love love honey. Food, drink, bubble baths and shampoo, candles...

I got mr kiplings new honey and chocolate slices the other week and the aftertaste of honey is gorgeous.

I have been making different honey cake recipes but haven't been able to replicate that taste yet.. I will though!!

Only manuka for me.

I swear by Manuka honey when I feel a bit under the weather. It has so much goodness in it.

Haven't tried that, next honey purchase, does it taste different?

It tastes exactly the same. Just costs more but I honestly think it's worth it. It works.

I am very encouraged by the 'children of beekeepers' comments. I am learning about keeping bees with a view to having my own soon. My children are 3 and 5.
May their childhoods be honey-scented and slightly sticky.... 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

And rowses have brought out honey with cinnamon which is also lovely in lemon tea or green tea.

Catsize - they will have fond memories for ever.

When my Dad sadly passed five years ago, I read this Yeats poem at his funeral

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

By William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

I like to think of him with a 'hive for the honey bee in a bee-loud glade', with his hat and his veil, chatting to his bees, happy as the day is long

kurri, that is lovely. Really lovely! Thank you for sharing.

Have to say that all the bee keeping folk I have met on my course seem so contented - and they are remarkably thin for people who probably spend a disproportionate amount of time eating honey.

Set honey?? Set honey??

Are you insane??! Runny honey is the only thing for honey on toast or adding to marinades and adding to lemon and honey tea!!

I ain't got time for no hard honey rubbish!! hoicks boobs up and huffs

Set honey is far better.