After taking the honey I needed for the two batches of mead I am working with now, I kind of forgot the last honey – about 7½ kg – still in the bucket I used when harvesting. I had spiked with crystallized honey to inoculate the crystallization, but nothing happened in the following weeks, so I assumed that the inoculation had failed.
Now that I opened the bucket the honey was completely solid. So solid that It was difficult to push a wooden spoon into it. Actually I broke it when I tried to dig a spoonful out “¤¤%#%&. It is becoming quite expensive in kitchen utensils since, according to my wife, it is “break one, buy a new set……”
I found that it was easier to cut it with a flat spoon from a rice cooker. Fortunately I have two of those, so armed with these tools I started to fill honey glasses with 450 g of honey. It took a very loooong time. Next year I will remember to do this while the honey can still flow like a liquid.
Go Movember !!!!! (I am looking so much forward to a full shave again)
To save me some work I took out 3.20 kg out for yet another batch of mead, though it will only be a 8.5 L batch.
All in all I ended up with enough 450 g glasses and 200 g glasses to get through Christmas and still have some left for family breakfasts, glazing of meat, salad dressings etc….. :o)