Honey

[TickTockMan]

A while back I went to a honey tasting room we have in town here. I tasted most of what they carry (all local stuff) and bought a bottle. Today I opened the bottle for some tea. Before the tasting room I don't think I have had any honey that was not clover or blackberry. I bought meadowfoam honey.


Have you ever tried different honeys? They can have a subtle to in your face taste.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I've only had the honey sold in grocery stores. I'm curious to try the varietal honeys sold online.

 

[TickTockMan]

I've only had the honey sold in grocery stores. I'm curious to try the varietal honeys sold online.

Here is a link to the local place by me. All of their honey is local to Oregon. https://flyingbeeranch.net/

 

[Kahaih]

I've only had the honey sold in grocery stores. I'm curious to try the varietal honeys sold online.

I don't understand. Why is he saying it is junk? It's not at all unusual for honey to crystallize. All it takes is warming it up to make it runny again.

 

[TickTockMan]

I don't understand. Why is he saying it is junk? It's not at all unusual for honey to crystallize. All it takes is warming it up to make it runny again.

Fraud honey is a multi billion dollar business. He is saying Costco's honey is not 100% honey. It is partly sugar syrup.

 

[Kahaih]

What's his proof?

I didn't find anything on line about Kirkland honey being fake or "stepped on".

I'd have to see something about ongoing lawsuits before I'd believe the guy in the video.

 

[unloadonme]

I'm not a huge fan of honey. I'm not keen on the taste and I find how it's produced rather icky. Whenever I get a cold, my mother goes on and on about drinking honey and lemon. I keep a jar of honey in the kitchen cupboard so I can look her in the eye and say that I have honey and don't need to be given any. I don't touch it though. My go to cold treatment is Southern Comfort and lemon.

 

[Vannie]

Sounds like honey laundering.

I've been purchasing Nates 100% Pure Raw and unfiltered honey for a while now.

But now I'm questioning if it's all real honey or it has cheap additives. It has always been inexpensive.

But you can definitely taste the difference with small batch honey from local farms and such.


I have lavender honey from Spain that is delicious. And I love a good quality orange blossom honey.

 

[Alistair]

I get my honey from an Amish farmer. I’ve heard that eating honey from local beehives helps with allergies. It gets your body used to the pollen from your local flora

 

[Kahaih]

I won't endorse any.

But I prefer getting honey from places where the climate and flora changes very little. I like consistency.

Locally, the honey season is brief, and the major bloom providers are inclined to change from year to year.

 

[Kahaih]

I get my honey from an Amish farmer. I’ve heard that eating honey from local beehives helps with allergies. It gets your body used to the pollen from your local flora

Yes, I've heard this, too.

But, everything about allergies is so unscientific. LOL Who knows?

 

[rareboy]

We get our honey from the 16 hives of bees on our front lawn.

Their honey is produced from a wide variety of fruit trees, flowers and our fields of alfalfa.

It is actually a medium density and flavour.

Ironically, when I got stung by about a dozen bees a month or so ago, it has triggered off a sensitivity to a number of things that now produce an allergic reaction.

 

[Essex Boy]

I wouldn't buy honey that says "produce of more than one country" on the label. Years ago I used to get Tasmanian leatherwood tree honey from a fancy shop in Covent Garden called Culpepers, which no longer exists. It had a very distinctlive aroma and a slight greenish colour if I remember rightly. Strangely, it was a bit cheaper than the ordinary English acacia honey, despite being imported from the opposite side of the world.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I don't understand. Why is he saying it is junk? It's not at all unusual for honey to crystallize. All it takes is warming it up to make it runny again.

I ignored his remark, my grandma showed me just what you've posted. It's all part of working with a natural product.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Here is a link to the local place by me. All of their honey is local to Oregon. https://flyingbeeranch.net/

This is Wonderful. I just knocked two names off my Holiday shopping list.
Orders are normally shipped in plastic containers but they will ship in glass, upon request.

 

[purina]

Other than clover, I've only tasted store-bought buckwheat, which I didn't care for.

 

[Thad1527]

 

[Thad1527]

Or on the other hand...
I saw these guys perform this last summer.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Haven't seen this old ad since 1964:

 

[TickTockMan]

Haven't seen this old ad since 1964:

My local grocery store sell Bit O Honey in bulk. Those things are so good.