What is the best way to store honey? What is the best way to store honey? Is possibly one of the most frequent questions we are asked. Well firstly lets start with a few facts about honey. Honey is the only natural food product that cannot not rot or go off. Because of its high sugar content, low Ph and low water content, it is a remarkably stable product. My honey has gone sugary! All good quality honey will granulate, so if you have an opened jar that has either gone solid or sugary, then dont worry it is only behaving the way nature intended. When the honey is cropped or extracted from the honey comb it is a viscous liquid. Then depending on its floral type it may stay liquid for up to nine months or granulate within a few days. The factors that help govern this are its floral type, which will relate to its fructose glucose level. A low F/G ratio will have a longer liquidity life. If the honey is placed in a cold environment eg a fridge this will speed up its granulation time. So if your honey was runny when you bought it and that the way you want it, dont refrigerate it keep it at room temperature. If its was set when you bought it then again dont refrigerate it it may go so hard you cannot get a knife in to the jar to spread it. If you want to return granulating honey back to clear runny honey the remove the jar lid and then warm the jar of honey either on a radiator, immersing the jar in hot water or by micro waving it for 15 second bursts until lit liquifies again. Providing the heating is done carefully so as not to burn the honey this procedure can be repeated several times without harming the honey or its wonderful properties.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 20:19:00 +0000