Taking a leaf from our fermentation journey, let's dive into another flavorful saga: the difference between raw and regular honey. You see, raw honey is the unprocessed, unheated bee nectar that's akin to the pristine morning dew. On the other hand, regular honey undergoes a form of pasteurization and filtration, a little like adding a riff to an already groovy tune. While both are sweet players, raw honey hits a high note with a fuller flavor profile and more nutrients, a real headliner in the taste and health departments. And hey, just like with fermentation, it's the journey of each ingredient that counts. Rock on! 🤘🏼 Adam
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Pasteurization is done to destroy sugar-tolerant yeasts in honey...sort of something important isn't it or do you just post misleading crap to get rage posts. Oh, and pasteurization does NOT remove pollen...that would be FILTRATION. Looks it is time you stopped drinking.
Microwaving or heating honey otherwise destroys all the goodness of honey. You might as well eat sugar
@@alwayshangrygirl463 lmao ikr. Complaining about the processed stuff because it's heated and then proceeding to microwave the raw honey...
@@alwayshangrygirl463true not a lot of people know that
Someone who loves honey but is allergic to pollen pasteurized that mf
Honey's shelf life is longer than the shelf it sits on. We have edible honey from ancient tombs in egypt
Does it taste good?
@averageDaftPunkenjoyer Yup, they ate it but tasted differant since bees used differant flowers
@@babypluto08different**
Yeah but I think Raw Honey can harbor botulism or something if it isn't stored correctly. Wasn't that the issue with the Pink Sauce bitch or something?
@@StinkyPoopyMcFartFacethat wasn’t because of the honey. Pure honey will not get botulism, ever. Sugar is the most natural preservative there is. I don’t even think it can get regular old mold.
Honey lasts indefinitely. They literally found 2000 year old Roman honey on a shipwreck, solidified in a large ceramic pot. They heated it back up, clarified it, and then ate some. They said it tasted delicious, albeit different than other flavors. That was because the flowers that the bees fed on were different!
Same with ancient Egyptian honey
@@garrettcooper58People that know that honey keeps, _almost literally, _*_forever._*
@garrettcooper58 it doesn't expire. It crystallizes, allowing you to store it forever. And most bacteria from then wouldn't be able to be successful given today's pharmaceutical advantages. The sheer amount of drugs, not to mention the old strains have literally no pharmaceutical resistance, let alone the difference in herbal remedies, since even the plants are different than theirs. earl
@@garrettcooper58why you think there's anything more dangerous we don't know about in that honey that some roman bloke might have had? like, if the honey had some kind of superflu, it would have killed a ton of people and we would know about it today. if it had something like black plague in it (honey was from different time so not possible) we would have cure nowadays. i think there's no such risk, and the experts probably know very well if there would be, otherwise they obviously wouldn't have consumed it. smart people don't just go ahead and try something ancient if they don't understand the possible adverse effects on it. it's not 1940s where scientists just pray that they don't ignite the whole atmosphere while trying atomic bombs.
@@garrettcooper58considering how underdeveloped roman medicine was (at least compared to modern standards) don't you think a super flu would've wiped out the majority of the civilized world back then?
Don’t forget that many large honey companies also dilute the honey with syrups to cut on costs
There is a huge amount of counterfeit honey imported into America that is actually just syrup but ends up being sold as honey.
YES!!! And pasteurisation loses all the good stuff!
It can't be grade aa if they add things to it. Plus it has to be on the label.
@@yacobshelelshaddai4543 pasteurizing makes it safe for consumption.
@@billyyank5807which is why? Because it kills bacteria. All bacteria, even the healthy probiotic ones in honey. That’s why you should get it raw.
"extend its shelf life" Like that's actually necessary.
Yeah lol, there's so much sugar in honey that it practically cant expire and bacteria can't live in it
😂😂😂 same thing i was thinking
Yep natural Honey is the Bee's Knees, The Ant's Pants & the Mutt's nutts. 😊
He’s an idiot KZheadr. What does he know?
“Extends its shelf life” :D .. lol, honey doesn’t have a shelf life.
That's what small honey wants you to think. Trust big honey, buy more honey when your honey expires
@@derekmendoza1690”honey” weird ass word😂😂😂 you know when you see a word so much it just looks weird af
it does lmao, it stays edible but when sat for a long period of time it becomes crystalized and basically stale
@@NasaMilkManand then you heat it up and it's honey again
Was just about to comment the same thing. They found honey in Egyptian tombs that was edible.
Fun fact: pasteurization extends the shelflife of honey from 5,000 years to 5,010 years 👍
Thank god. 🙏🙏
now my 500th dog’s child can eat honey yay
Thank you - I’ll remember that for when my Martian Museum finally opens and I need to pillage my old pantry for artefacts
Lol 🎉
You think the honey you have in your home is real and pure? 😆 it's just sugar water with some chemicals that has shelf life of 2 years buy a honey bottle and leave it for 2-3 years you will see what I mean.
Bro just recommended microwaving raw honey😂
Absolute hack, "pasturize" it yourself
He just " degraded the natural enzymes and reduced the level of antioxidants"
What he should have done, is gave it a water bath
@@Goshawk9put it in a bowl of hot water, it will eventually become liquid.
Lol
Bro violated that honey bottle
honey, honey doesn’t expire.
best comment
Want my bottle that smells like old socks? Lol
@@robbie.sunshinea little goes a long ways
Honey, honey changes overtime and eventually will change flavor and texture(like crystallizing)
@@Betterthenyou375 that’s real honey lmao if you’ve ever gotten fresh or local 🍯 and let it sit and never use it it will turn dark shades of brown and be more crystallized
Beekeeper here, 3 things. 1) DO NOT microwave honey. It kills off the microbes in the honey that are good for you. 2) Honey doesn’t expire. It crystallizes. Simply reheat in a bowl of warm-hot water (refer to #1) 3) just a friendly reminder to never give honey to infants under 12 months. Please ask your doctor if you have questions.
THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING THE BEES!!! ❤❤❤❤
hes the bees knees good work keep on keeping on brother!
"Kills of the microbes" ah yes because the fact that honey is antimicrobial and kills everything but botulism isn't enough🤦 it might denature some enzymes, but it isn't killing anything. In fact microwaves don't in general which is why you still have to reach a certain heat to still when cooking with it, otherwise you could eat for raw as the microwave passes through the entire item. That being said warm water tends to do better and keeps it from crystalizing as fast.
@@zacharythebeau163 The microwave kills of anything good that was there to begin with. Yes, honey does contain botulisms spores, that’s why you can’t give it to infants. Their immune systems are not strong enough yet to fight it off, but ours are (unless there are underlying issues). So, yes honey is antimicrobial, but some microbes are good and end up being useless after the microwave.
Thank you. My sister's a beekeeper and I''ve helped in the operation a lot.
"Raw" honey can be even more fluid and runny and crystal clear than "pasteurised honey". My grandpa was a hobbist beekeeper and we always had fresh honey. The honey made from the flowers of a tree called "black locust tree" known as pseudoacacia is always almost transparent, runny and the most amazing honey I ve had.
I had no idea about pasteurised honey until now. I'm so grateful to have honey straight from the beekeepers in Poland.
Pasteurizing just means heated then rapidly cooled to kill off bad bacteria. Makes it safe for consumption.
@@billyyank5807raw honey is completely fine to eat bro
@@billyyank5807 Honey is quite antibacterial, no need in additional pasteurisation. Even mold can't grow on honey.
@0x00AE1C9B honey is not 100% antibacterial. It's pure sugar, and bacteria can definitely live in it.
@@DR-sv8ke it isn't pure sugar
This guy is the reason we have an expiration date on himalayan salt.
The salt doesn't expire, the plastic container does. After some time, the plastic of the container begins to break down and contaminants the salt, making it unsafe to use. Salt is totally fine in and will not expire in glass containers. You could always buy the salt in plastic, but store it in glass or ceramic
Right????
@@abby_zeller dude no i dont think so, please look up how long it takes plastics to degrade. that's why we have such an issue with people not recycling
well plastic water bottles do the same and thats why it's advised to not always drink from plastic bottles@@causedisland6056
@causedisland6056 please look up the definition of degradation next time, yes plastic can take years if not centuries to completely break down, however, in that time it is constantly leaking out the chemicals that were used in creating the plastic, and in the plastic itself, think of placing a ball of dirt in a bowl of water, the dirt ball will remain a ball for a decent amount of time, but the water around it will still get dirty, the plastic of the container will remain a solid piece of plastic, but whatever its containing will get that chemical leakage from the plastic over time
Honey does not have a shelf life. When it's heated, it is to keep the honey from crystalizing for a longer time. When it does start to crystallize again, it can be rewarmed in a warm water bath. Just keep the honey from getting water in it. I'm glad you like honey! So many benefits when used in moderation. I used to help my family when we had bees.
Also pasteurization kills off bacteria, which raw honey can carry
I put honey in my superficial injuries, heals perfectly.
@@elvenadohostil8607 also good for sore throats!
@@StickiestboiIf memory serves honey has some natural antibiotic properties. Part of the reason it doesn't expire
@@piercexlr878 It can still carry certain bacteria, particularly raw honey ,it does not kill 100% of them
My dad is a bee keeper and honey from stores is basically just corn syrup. They heat treat it so it takes out all of the stuff that you think is helping your allergies. Local honey is a 25-50 mile distance from the store so when items from stores say they are local but the honey is from Florida but you live in Texas it’s really not. That’s was a really random paragraph about honey..😭 Edit: also honey stays good forever but I does crystallize which is really easy to fix
So your dad is a lier? Because if it was corn syrup tell your dad to sue. That would be a lot of money. It does your dad say that to everyone so they buy honey from him
@@snowfoxl0v0l he is not a liar and you don’t just sue someone for selling a product that isn’t what it seems. And yes he does say that to most people because he’s telling him the benefits and what to watch out for.
@@snowfoxl0v0l"Liar" Not lier. Yes, store bought honey is basically corn syrup. Meaning, it is basically liquid sugar with zero health benefits, whereas, raw local honey has many health benefits. Same with pasteurized milk vs raw milk.
Honey from the store is not corn syrup 😂 Ya'll seriously dont know about grade aa honey? 😂
@@shelleyroper588 its not corn syrup 😂 Pasteurized just means safe for consumption. No bacteria that will make you sick.
I like grabbing local honey it’s always cool to see the color of the honey change through the year
As a beekeeper that Honey looks more like creamed honey or granulated then raw honey, you intentionally cream it to use as a spread by adding dextrose crystals and stirring it, while granulated is the same reaction done unintentionally. also you do not microwave honey you should slowly heat it by submerging it's container in boiling water or it will recrystallize quickly
My dad used to beekeep and it just looks like honey blended with wax because I’ve never seen honey like that during our process.
@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004 ahh do you mean like the cappings as well as the comb? That's an interesting way to process it, I'll have to try sometime
@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004 I visited their website, on the Raw Honey product page it lists: **Naturally raw honey crystallizes rather quickly. This product is often in a smooth yet crystallized state at the time of purchase** And on the only picture I found on the jar, it says it MAY contain small amounts of wax, pollen and propolis, naturally, rather than it being added.
@@jthunter8529 read my comment above. Also if you ever plan to use combs, keep in mind not to take too much at any given time, especially if they are already stressed during the season. Wax takes a lot more work and resources to make compared to honey. A quick search says it takes 6-8 pounds of honey for each pound of wax, although wax is lighter in volume and is only used to form walls, so you might can get away with taking a frame or two if they have honey reserved.
@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004it looks like it has the entire hive ground up in it minus most of the bees lol.
Even if honey had been sitting on your shelf for 2,000 years, that honey would still be as good as the day you opened it
Good I'll buy a bunch in bulk and wait 40000 years before consuming it 🦖
And then you die from botulism poisoning.
They lose aroma and flavor over time no matter how you store it
It depends on the type of honey. If the honey has a higher water content it can and will go rotten.
@@blueferal8626Sell it for good money💰💰
As a non-american, I didn't even know there was a pasteurised honey
We call it 'cooked honey'. Which makes it safer for wound care.
some honey will stay completely clear forever because of less cystals in the pollen such as Acacia tree honey. it stay completely clear and will keep forever. it's immortal honey
As a beekeeper…DO NOT MICROWAVE HONEY
Underrated comment on this vid
i think he shouldnt even use a metal spoon too
so i can microwave it when I'm not beekeeper ?
@@aloka9784 microwaving it gets rid of a bunch of natural nutrients that are in the honey and also taints the flavor a tad but if you just put the bottle in boiling water and heat it that way nothing in the honey is removed and you’ll end up having a better product in the end
@@ThatOneJaydn i was joking. your sentence provoked me. ofc you are right
Microwaving raw honey is about the worst possible thing you can do to it. If you need to warm it up, use a warm water bath (but make sure no water gets into the honey). Also, honey doesn't go bad if stored away from moisture. They have found edible honey that's several thousands of years old.
Idk man... poisoning it or blowing it up with explosives miiight be worse
what do you imagine the difference is between warm water and microwave?
Microwave kills all living things in the honey, duh
Im gonna deep fry my honey now that i know its safer than microwaving
and why do you think it kills everything in it? all microwave does, is aggrivate the water molecules making them vibrate rapidly, thus generating heat. microwaves themselves aren't dangerous, it's just about the frequency. there's no dangerous radiation. so why do you think it kills everything in it?
I get raw honey every single time. I noticed a big difference in flavor, raw filtered honey is always more crisp and it’s just better for you. I always integrate it into a preworkout food to give me carbs for training
"honey doesn't expire" He was explaining what pasteurization does. It's not JUST used on honey, guys. Milk and cheese also get pasteurized which extends their shelf life considerably.
Honey never spoils it doesn't need to be pasturized.. it lasts forever
It's for taste, it does need to be pasteurized to make it the way most people eat it
Honey needs to be pasteurised. Unpasteurised honey will definitely spoil but pasteurised honey doesn't spoil.
counterpoint: botulism
Nothing lasts forever
@@SergyMilitaryRankings Oingo Boingo reference
Just a correction from a beekeeper, It's not cloudy, it's crystalised, where the sugar will turn into small crystals in colder temperatures. Depending on how much you strain it, depends on how many crystals it has, and how easy it will crystalise. Pasteurised honey is often strained and heated which removes natural enzymes as you said, but also stops crystallisation for a very long duration of time.
I remember being so confused about this as a kid! Raw crystallized honey was one of my favorite flavors so I was annoyed when I tried pasteurized honey and it didn’t taste the same.
"Cloudy" is still a perfectly legitimate descriptor of the appearance. You're right about _why_ it appears cloudy, of course, and it's useful illumination! But it _is_ cloudy.
@@ItsAsparageese As a BeeK myself raw honey is not cloudy at all. I have honey that has been sitting in my cabinet for 2 years now and is still as clear as the day it was bottled. Like OP said when honey stays around 50 degrees F it will crystalize. Also what the video said about the color of honey is BS, that comes from what nectar was collected. I have (what is my best guess) clover honey and is is a much lighter color than the pasteurized honey in this video.
@@Kingbudman Again, "cloudy" is used here as just a visually descriptive term. Sure, not all raw honey shows the crystallization, but when it does -- and some of it does -- it is still accurate to describe it as "cloudy" in purely the sense of how it appears to an onlooker. It doesn't imply impurity or contamination or anything, it's literally just a descriptor of something having a little more opacity to its appearance
So serious question, why does my honey turn into crystals and dry like when i dont even touch it and it sits in my cabinet because thats been happening a lot lately and i dont know what to do to keep honey around without spending a crap ton of money to prevent it from happening with a 50/50 percent chance of actually working
I just bought the thicker type because I like spreading it on toast. The texture is great
I had 5 lbs. of honey. The whole thing crystallized. I just dug out what I needed and melted it. Honey has a shelf life of eternity it seems. They found a jar of 3,000 year old honey that was still good.
Same! We have a big "honey pot" in our basement. That we 7se to refil a squeeze bottle.
"Extends shelf life" bro, honey is the only food that NEVER goes bad
Water and Salt. Honey will eventually in millions of years break down and dissapear. Salt and Water have been on the Planet for over 4 Billion years.
it can crystallize
@@itmelittlepea8012 warm it and it turns back into liquid. Its still not spoiled. Honey has been found in Egyptian tombs still good.
@@itmelittlepea8012Without spoiling.
@@itmelittlepea8012crystallization doesn’t mean it’s gone bad
As a beekeeper our honey comes out of the hive in the crystal look what you are calling pasteurized or regular.
Did you know, another excellent reason to choose raw honey is the abundance of enzymes found within it that are otherwise removed during pasteurization. Be careful not to over heat the honey whether it be in the microwave or by boiling it to soften it. The best method to preserving these enzymes while softening honey is to slowly heat it in water that doesn’t exceed 105 degrees, or place the honey outside in the sun
Pro tip. Honey never ever goes bad. It never spoilds
this is not even a tip...
it does only if you inject it with bacteria that can survive in it which is super super super rare. so yea 99.99% of honey does not expire
@@mafi000actually, it's JUST the tip.
As long as it’s never contaminated. You can still get botulism from honey.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Honey is one of those things you shouldn't cheap out on but you also shouldn't go for the most expensive option thinking it's the best.
Not reaally , i get 2 pounds for 15 bucks in morocco , its natural , cuz i get it straight from the farmer , price difference can be from what bees eats , like some types of flower that bees eats from can make the honey more expencive , like lavender honey , i already got it for like 45 bucks 2 pounds , its because of it uses , i used to add 1 spoon of it with hot water then drink it
Sugar natural honey , is honey made by bees that had eaten sugar , its as beneficial as other types of honey , but its cheaper , it can go for around 7bucks 2 pounds
@@mouatazxorange blossom honey is one of my favs. Lavender honey is also sooooo good 😍 I’d pay for that for sure
There is almost no reason to not cheap out on honey anymore - there used to be when there was a bunch of fake honey on the shelves, but they seemed to have addressed that issue and now if it says honey it's actually real honey. Not buying the cheapest honey (with the exception of special types of honey you may want for their unique flavour) is like not buying the cheapest bag of sugar. It's sugar - it doesn't matter which brand is selling it or how much they charge, it's the same thing in different packages.
Leatherwood is a beautiful dark honey. It’s only made in Tasmania in Australia, but luckily I live there so it’s not so hard to get my hands on it!
lol i had raw honey straight out of the hive in Africa… literally had bees still in it, looked like regular liquid honey, it was almost clear because of the local flowers in the bush there.
Tell me you don't know anything about honey without telling me... you gave me an essay.
Put it in hot water to liquefy it. Zapping it in the microwave also kills the beneficial enzymes. It's basically flash-pasteurization
No, this is not correct, a sufficient amount of heat into the honey will inactivate enzymes. it does not matter if you use a microwave or a hot water bath.
God people have to stop with the cult like mentality. The damage from heat will not really impact the overall quality
The corrector being corrected. Love to see that
@@danielfoster9782It does matter as microwaving changes foods at the molecular level making it less beneficial for good health.
@@Dragonalynnhow does heat not change it at the molecular level?
Honey does NOT expire, but the container might, so be careful.
thats why glass jars are king, no plastic leeching
especially if you touch the honey in the jar with your finger like he did in the video lol
I LOVE raw honey! Its less tarty then pasteurized honey, tastes sweeter and the texture is BRAIN-MELTING 😍😋
I've tried raw honey before and this thing hits different it's so sweet yet so unique
Bro, honey never goes bad, not even for thousands of years
The reason why honey doesn't go bad is it because its so saturated with sugar and stuff that its moisture level is so low, disabling bacteria to grow
if you dont store it properly it actually can
Unless u buy water infused honey
3,000 year old Egyptian honey has entered chat.
It was a bathtub
The one thing I didn’t know about this was that pasteurization changes the flavor of the honey. Actually explains why there’s times when I eat honey and it’s amazing and then others where I basically just ate syrup.
I had raw honey as a kid. It builds your immune system
Extend shelf life? Someone tell him honey doesn't go bad.
And is that only food resistant to radiation
Shelf life and expiration aren’t the same. Raw honey will crystallize before pasteurized honey.
@@tylerwestman5258WAIT FOR REAL
@@N08R76HHey. Ppst. Little secret. Crystallised honey is still honey. It's safe to eat as long as you don't mix it with tar or something.
@@NitrEmo yes I know, I heat up my crystallized honey in order to eat it.
Extends it's shelf life from infinity to infinity times 2
Infinity + 1
pasteurized to half-infinity
Bro is putting a metal spoon inside honey 💀💀💀
I'm in somalia and the raw honey here is harvested from mountain bees and the flavor is the most unique honey I have ever tasted. It is extremely sweet and has a spicy profile that will burn your throat if you eat it in large quantities. Honestly it's the best honey I have ever had with that crystal red color it is delicious.
I lost it when he mentioned EXTEND SHELF LIFE, honey literally stays like for a Century 😂
You must absolutely lose it whenever you see water bottles with expiration dates aswell then right. No one wants to buy honey that's already crystallised. And it comes inside of a plastic tube that slowly breaks down. Not sure why it's so hard to understand it has a shelf life for paying customers.
It's more than a century. Several Millenia is more like it and it still hadn't gone bad.
@@topofthemorning6832who checks expiration dates on water bottles. I didn't even know they had those. It must be the "water" with a whole ingredients list. Also shelf life refers to how long it's good for. And if you lower the price People absolutely will buy crystallized honey. It's basically the same thing as any other honey you just have to work a tiny bit for it, hence the lower price. And some honey comes in glass jars so when talking about how long a product can last it only makes sense to include the packaging if it is always part of the product.
@@topofthemorning6832this dosen't apply to glass or metal so it dosen't really matter for people.that get real honey and not walmart honey
@@monchiexthemonkey6068 it applies because consumers don't want to buy honey that's already cristilized. Same reason why so much fruit gets wasted that doesn't appear perfect
you’re the reason there is confusion about honey.
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Yes 100% 😂😂 great comment. The real truth. They're all basically the same one just costs 5x more than the other EDIT: Alright yeah the cheap honey and bear bottle honey is different.
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@@triskits_mmmhow are they the same? There is a massive difference between honey straight from the hive with the beneficial enzymes and nutrients vs honey that was heated to the point where it is just pure sugar with 0 beneficial nutritional value
@@Silverhydra33and at my local grocery the local raw honey is actually priced lower than most of the pasteurized brands. There's a lot of smaller producers too and the farmgate price is competitive with the grocery.
If your honey went bad it wasn't just honey. It probably had a bunch of additives to drive production costs down (like corn syrup), and those do go bad.
If your hone has solidfied, put your honey jar in the dishwasher (not on sani wash) to liquefy. It won't overheat the honey the way the microwave does.
Okay, first of all, under no circumstances should you MICROWAVE raw honey. Not only do you kill a lot of the enzymes and stuff that are good for you but that superheating can do bad stuff to impurities in the honey causing them to pop or become way too hot compared to the honey (or glass) around it. I've never had a jar shatter or explode on me but I have had one jump and spray scalding honey all over my microwave. If you need to melt your honey take the jar and place it in a pot of water. Bring that water to just under a boil and wait. It takes longer but its safer. Edit: You CAN microwave pasteurized honey but it's still not recommended for the same reasons as above. It's significantly safer though. Additionally if your honey is in a plastic container and has turned to crystal, wait for it to harden completely and then slice open the container with a sharp, sterile knife or kitchen scissors. Put it in a glass or ceramic container or bowl and melt over the stove. "white" or "cloudy" honey is significantly more expensive but there was also a lot less work put into it. You're paying more money for the people who make it to do less work since they don't have to filter out the fine pollen. There are no significant health benefits to pollen so only buy it if you prefer the taste since in all other ways its exactly like standard raw honey. Edit: I forgot to include cloudy honey may also have some wax in it. The wax is safe to eat but that means they didn't even bother removing the honey from the wax. Again, unless you're specifically fond of the taste just get normal honey. You get more volume for less money. Additionally pasteurized honey does not have a longer shelf life than raw honey. As long as you don't introduce sugar eating bacteria or fungi honey stays good basically forever. Raw honey will crystalize faster due to impurities but if that happens see my above instructions for melting it.
I was shocked when he put it in the microwave
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I'm realizing that the people who have time to make shorts like this probably shouldn't be giving advice to people. The people with real knowledge are too busy doing things to edit videos.
@@cremdilly7176 It feels that way, right? Not all videos are like that. There's a lot of great bee rescue and beekeeping vids on youtube. But those people probably have someone else doing editing for them.
If you buy your honey from a local beekeeper you're most likely guaranteed to get nothing but pure, raw honey. You're going to pay a premium for it up to $1.50 an ounce in some areas, but you're getting what you pay for. The alternative is store bought which sometimes has been altered with corn syrup, or comes from areas of concern when it comes to safe harvesting practices, and what may have been added to the honey before being bottled and labeled for sale.
Funnily enough I have never eaten store bought honey or pasteurised honey. Grandpa has been a beekeeper ever since he retired as a teacher and the produce is in the homes of all my familiy members. Too bad I am highly allergic to bee-toxins so I can't take over ever from him. Also apparently here we call it soft honey for pasteurised honey.
Yes, real raw honey can be expensive.
@@Jack-jq4ifisn’t that ironic?
Lol whatever bro nobody cares about harvesting practices for their honey and it will say on the jar of there is other stuff in it 😂. You’re def not getting shit for the premium.
@@MatteoFitness I 've always sold my honey for $.100 an ounce, sonce covid the price in some areas has gone up to $1.50 an ouncem if someone didn't want to pay $1 an ounce they were always welcome to purchase elsewhere, I guess just like you would. Local honey is the best, I don't buy store bought honey because most of it is imported and you never know what has added to it, or any countriy's harvesting practices. I've been abeekeeper for 6 years so I'm not just someone talking to her myself talk, I do have some knowledge of bees and honey under my belt.
Fun fact: honey is a non-newtonian fluid and can be more or less runny depending on temp
FYI~ the “honey” in those Little bears, is usually a very SMALL amount Honey mixed with Rice Syrup. If not, complexity rice syrup. It’s made in China 🇨🇳 And they don’t have to tell us. One of the best food choices we make is buying our honey and meats from locals farmers/ranchers. I know that’s not easy everywhere. It’s one of the benefits, of living in Montana.
If you get local, from small operators, they likely don’t have the equipment for pasteurization and thus are raw!
If you have a honey that goes bad, it means you were ripped off
Yup, it means that the water content was too high.
most likely has syrup mixed in like most brands
@@ragnkjaReal honey does not have a water content that would have any effect. If there's water, it's been added to make bigger profits.
@@LattazzYou are quite right. It is difficult to detect fake honey even in laboratories these days. Producing honey commercially costs a lot of money, so you know that if if the honey is cheap, it has got a fair bit of syrup. "Organic" is not a guarantee of authenticity, unfortunately. Avoid honey from China and Vietnam and anything that says "multiple origin" and buy instead single origin honey that can be traced to the farm.
@@oakstrong1 Exactly. Pure honey should have a too low water content for anything to grow in it, so either it’s been kept in something that wasn’t airtight enough, or someone deliberately added water to increase the volume. Either way, someone’s been trying to increase their profits in some way.
All honey is strained to remove wax, bees, etc. Raw honey likely has more pollen and wax in it. Usually bees store pollen, honey, or nectar separately. They eat pollen and turn nectar into honey via fermentation. So the think light brown stuff probably has a bunch of pollen and some wax in the mix. "Natural" honey looks very similar to the standard honey you're used to.
All honey? I think you are greatly mistaken there because all honey is not strained.
The difference is unpasteurized honey or pasteurized are both purified under a bunch of filters. Raw honey is just strained which is different, for some reason.
@@goodman854 .... No, raw honey is not purified, raw honey is raw. There's no reason to purify it.
@@killer008rReally? You have bought honey with dead bees and other debris in it?
@@killer008rI think you misunderstood what he meant about purifying. I understand that the honey is filtered to remove any unwanted debris. This IS done with colanders and (cheese) cloths just like when you want to make clear jelly.
Pasteurization extends its shelf life from Indefinitely to Indefinitely. Got it.
How can you extend shelf life pass forever? Honey never goes bad. Real honey, that is.
My grandpa who is a beekeeper says that you shouldn't microwave/heat up honey since it destroy some of the natural flavor compounds found in raw honey.
Yeah I cringed when he put the whole jar in the microwave. I wouldn’t complain if he scooped a bit out into a different container.
"Heat can remove the enzymes, antioxidants, and flavor of your honey" "If your raw honey misbehaves, throw it in the microwave"
Amount of heat is a significant detail you seem to have missed mate
@@PLF...microwaves heat up food in the worst way possible for honey. Honey needs to be gently heated but microwaves, due to their nature of moving water molecules to heat food, inject said heat much more violently than a hot water bath would. All you need is a bowl that the jar is in, and some water that’s not even boiling (I use water that’s just forming bubbles on the bottom) and stir the honey after you pour the water. It takes 2 minutes more and is so worth it
@@PLF... have you never used a microwave before? or did you not think for even a single second before you wrote this comment? lmao
I once read an by article about a blue honey. Apparently the bees were attracted to waste from a candy manufacturing plant and the blue dye that was used made it into the honey and turned it blue.
Well I've helped my neighbor who actually does own a few colonies as a small hobby. And it was very interesting, I've also helped him add a new queen to a new colony. Also, the bees are actually very tame, and the honey freshly harvested from the hive is absolutely delicious
Today's fact: honey is immortal.
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.
My family has had bees for years and I’ve always helped on harvest day. Not once have I seen anything remotely close to that “raw” honey. The honey inside the capped comb is just like you would imagine, liquid golden honey. I’m thinking they are just melting the wax/comb with the honey and packaging it as something special when in reality it’s not at all. Zero bee honey looks like that “raw” stuff
Well the honey solidifies after a while or more specifically crystallizes no matter how organic and raw it won’t look the same as freshly harvested a couple days after in the store or at home.
If you have bees then you should know what crystallization looks like.
I love honey! It comes in many colours, consistency and types (from trees it's darker and somehow bitter, from bushes it has an intense aroma, from flowers it's lighter and sweeter) and when unprocessed, it crystalizes. Temperature is also an important factor on this one. Companies heat it up because it looks better for consumers (because it doesn't crystalize on the shelve after processing) and because they mix it with sugar and corn syrup. Pure liquid honey leaves an "infinite" really thin string when test-pouring it from a spoon, liquid honey that has been messed up with "drops" when the string gets thinner.. When trying to liquify crystalized honey, i think the rule is that it should never exceed your body temperature. There are some big electric pots where you can set the water temperature when placing your jars there for approximately a day. Please never microwave it ;-)
@@tunafish0002it takes a very long time for it to crystallize and it doesn't look anything like that. This "raw honey" is a product for city people. Whatever the fuck it is its not natural like thar from the hive.
Never come across raw honey as a paste or chunks. Have grown over 20 types of bees.
I got a little jar of raw honey at a health food store when I was a kid and it was absolutely delicious. It was more “raw” than this though, it really looked like it had been taken straight out of a hive with zero processing. It had little crunchy bits of honeycomb and it was like a pale golden-beige kind of opaque color. It was less consistent in color than this honey too, had little pieces of stuff in it that was probably from the hive. Now that I think about it, it probably had some dead bee parts in it, but that didn’t cross my mind then. Whatever, it was really good anyway 😂
Its cristalised, and its normal for a honey. You can just mix it to break the cristals or dip it in warm water as well
i just realized I've never had pasteurized honey, my family always just called raw honey "honey"
jealous. i'd sometimes get it as a treat when i was a kid lol. loved that stuff
I've had pasteurised once or twice, and let me tell you, it was not good. It had the texture close to corn syrup, not pleasant at all.
Never heard about raw honey... In Sweden, that is what the ordinary honey looks like!! (As oppose to "liquid honey", that has only been around a couple of years...)
As someone whose dad has picked up beekeeping and who gets access to the highest quality honey available, I can safely say that a lot of fresh honey is liquid. It solidifies over time, with this consistency of "raw honey" being something I'd have after 2 years. If the honey I get actually lasted that long haha This year's honey is liquid unless it's from some special herbs. Depends on many factors but liquid honey also doesn't have to be pasteurised. Who the hell even thought of pasteurization when it comes to honey anyway?
@@atriyakoller136 Interesting!!
Sara you know thats not true in any way. Youve always been able to get honeys that are liquid (e.g. from acacia) in all of Scandinavia
@@PLF...No, I didn't know about that? It might have been available if you were looking for it. But I never saw it til I was grown up. As a child, I always wondered how come the honey that Winnie the pooh ate was so liquid. And still today, the label on the non liquid honey says only "Honey", while the other type says "liquid honey", as being different from ordinary, non liquid honey. The non liquid form is the traditional, swedish standard honey, and the only one I knew growing up.
@@PLF... damn you are really just talking out of your ass arent you? good luck with that.
I do NOT use the microwave for anything. It's my understanding that microwaves destroy the nutrients within food. Thanks for this video. I've wondered about the differences.
No confusion here, I only purchase the real Sourwood Honey with the comb inside. Pasteurized honey is usually from Clover and tastes good but different than Sourwood which has a richer flavor to it.
A beekeper once explained the difference to me, but he used the words lliving honey and dead honey. He basically said that living honey is much better for any form of raw consumption (like spreading on your bread), since it tastes better and is much healthier. But He recommended dead honey for everything that heats the honey, like cooking, honeywine making, putting it into tea etc.
Dont use metal utensils for honey. Honey is very acidic, putting metal in it will alter the taste.
Metals actually affect the taste of most things, there is a extreme difference between copper, aluminum, steel, silver and gold. I think that I listed them correctly in order of most impact to the least. Gold shouldn't really affect most things, not even strong basic or acidic unless there somehow is a charge difference (could probably happen if you have amalgam denture fillings). Woods and plastic can really affect the taste, but wood doesn't taste bad at least :)
Also don't eat acidic things with copper, aluminum or God forbid Pewter! It leaches out the Metals into the food and it is not good for you. Pewter is probably the reason why people thought that tomatoes were toxic, they are acidic and dissolves the lead out of the cutlery, and lead is very toxic. How nice that petrol engines spew out that too and not only carbon dioxide... 🙄
@@savagesarethebest7251 Interesting, did not know the extent of it.
More than the flavor, the thing is it can destroy beneficial enzymes because of the metal ions mixing with the honey.
Just about every honey extractor and decapping apparatus is made of stainless steel.
I used be part of a group that would set up and take care of beehives in community gardens, and schools. Each one of our hives honey had a distinct flavor because we sold it raw. It’s crazy how much the flavor can change, we had one hive in a little orchard that made super sweet fruity honey. Another was in a community garden that grew a lot of herbs vegetables it’s honey had wonderful sweet herbal and earthy flavor. One of the favorites of the community was the hives we had in point defiance park their honey had a minty flavor to it.
In order to liquify the solid honey, I suggest a different approach. Put the jar of honey in a bowl or container filled with warm water, then wait until the honey is liquid. This will keep all of the honey at a same temperature, instead of heating it unevenly with a microwave. Plus, if you use the microwave, you are risking to boil some of the honey or even overheat, which is bad because the honey looses its natural nutritional benefits- or even worse it can caramelize... Oh and btw when if you but the honey in warm water, make sure it is just WARM because if it is boiling it can have the same effect as the microwave.
Extends its shelf life honey can't expire
I bet to differ. You want my address and come smell this bottle of dandelion honey from Calgary that went from intense to terrible dirty sick flavour in a few weeks? 🤷🏼😆
@@robbie.sunshine then what you bought was not honey but sugar water.
@@robbie.sunshineeither you did not buy real honey or you did not preserve it right and kept it in humidity honey lasts forever and only a bit flavor fades but thats it. People found a roman honey jar (roman timing) that was already 1000 years old and it still tasted pretty good but funky due to the fact that bees pollinated different flowers thus different flavor.
@@robbie.sunshine what you have either isn't honey, or it was stored very poorly and moisture got in.
@@Random_name_liker If you have to store it "right" to prevent it from spoiling, it spoils. Nothing would spoil if you kept it in a perfectly sterile environment.
I bought a gallon of raspberry blossom honey from kallas recently and it's the best honey I've ever had. It isn't 100% raw as they heat it slightly to make it flow through their machinery easier but it wasn't heated to the point of "pasteurization" either
I just get Honey from my Grandpa - who is a beekeeper
@@carlosandleon You get the absolute best honey there is, I don't trust or buy store bought honey at all, can you guess why? maybe my username says it all, lol.
Pretty sure using a wooden spoon or ladle helps keep from crystallizing jars of liquid honey as opposed to a metal one, I believe that makes a difference.
Ive never seen "raw honey" that looks more like wax than actually honey. Ive harvested honey from wild bees and picking only the fresh combs and squeezing the honey out and it would look exactly like the "pasteurized honey" sometimes it even has a much darker colour, if the hive is found deep within a forest (specifically rainforest) it has a darker colour and the sweetest honey. Light amber coloured honey is usually found near villages. Also you can harvest almost all of the combs of honey if you found it in a tropical country, only leave the comb where the larvas are or where the queen is found. If in a place where there is winter only take 40-30% cause the bees need food during the winter.
I’d definitely use a warm water bath over a microwave for raw honey. And keep the water below boiling.
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Best to make crystalized honey back to liquid is to put the jar is warm water and stir until the ideal consistency is reached.
Iirc the reason we pasteurized our honey is because if the honey become solidify people will assume its not edible anymore so honey company need to pasteurized it
A honey bee lives for 40 days, in its 40 days it produces one spoon honey. So make sure you do something worth that these bees gave their life for that good taste and great product.
Raw honey, if extracted properly, will last thousands of years. They find perfectly edible honey occasionally in archaeological digs. Pasteurised honey does have a shelf life. If you are lucky, it will candy as it approaches the shelf life, which will stabilise it, meaning you can heat it up to liquify and immediately use. If your pasteurised honey starts to taste bitter, it’s past it, so leave it outside on a plate for honey bees, wasps, etc. you should never microwave honey, not just because of the risk of it exploding, but because the localised intense heat can destroy much of the nutritional value. Dissolve it in a water bath slowly.
Absolutely love the raw honey I get from some local beekeepers. Tastes absolutely different from anything else I get at the store.
I always preferred creamed honey over the liquid, non crystallized version because it somehow tastes better to me
"Extends it's shelf life" as a grandson of a beekeeper that never bought honey from store let me tell you: as long as you don't contaminate it with bacteria (i.e. lick the spoon and put it back into the honey) that honey's shelf life will be longer than your own. No matter what honey, pasteurized or not.
Do not eat honey off shelves if you dont trust it or know it. America has laws that permit companies to add a high volume of stuff that isn't honey into their honey bottles, and then label it as fully real honey.
Seems to be some confusion over how to soften the honey too! Boil some water, remove from heat, place jar in water. This will gently restore its liquid form without damaging any properties!
I just eat honey right from the comb chunks, best method in my opinion. It's super common to eat it that way where I'm from
I've melted a Honey comb and drizzle it to my bread. I think I like honey with the wax on it, it got a nice texture to it
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I only get my honey from the local bee man since it helps in the spring with allergies
Bam! This is the correct answer. You, my friend, are on the right track. Don't bee fooled. (Lol- bee)
It *might* help prevent allergies in babies. Are you a baby with the potential to get allergies? If not, then don't pretend like it has an effect
@@Chris_winthers it's known (or rumored?) to help with allergies in all people. Children under a year old aren't advised to have honey because honey can have the bacteria that causes botulism.
@@Chris_winthershow do you get such wrong info?
@@Chris_winthers Beekeeper here. I've had dozens of people tell me they stopped taking their allergy pill within a few weeks/ month of eating my raw honey. Now, I've never done a control group on any population or used any placebos or what-not, but I know I've had several people with allergies ranging from annoying to severe that claimed that local raw honey helped them.
Our honey in the Philippines is either you get it directly from the farmers, or corn syrup.
It was fantastic when my grandpa had a small hive on Long Island. Unfortunately when my grandparents moved to FL they were too aggressive for him there so he had to abandon his hobby/small business.
Raw honey: has literally been found edible in Egyptian tombs that are thousands of years old This absolute unit: *EXTENDS THE SHELF LIFE*
Saying that honey has an expiration date means that it is an imitation with something else added to the person's honey. In other words, if you ask and find out where the person bought the honey, you don't have to buy it there. Great tip!
It could also be the expiration date of the container it’s in.
Raw is the way to go, and if available, go with locally sourced. I don't know why but it really helps if you have allergies to local pollins. And don't worry about "shelf life" I have had jars of raw honey last years. Im sure they would have lasted longer but I finished them. 😅