this is not bubbling from heating, it's bubbling from pouring and scraping. a giant sticky mess of goodness! when i'm done scraping the last 3 frames, i'll set the wax mixture in a stock pot with a lid on the sidewalk to extract it with the sun.
so far, i've yielded about 1 gallon and i expect when it's all done, i'll have 2 gallons. he put 3 supers on their hive and will add 2 more in the next week or two.go bees!
between hand extracting honey and hand pitting 4 gallons of cherries, my week has been full!
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Oooh, I'd love to hear your details on hand extraction. No way am I buying one of those expensive extractors!
yum! do you have to refrigerate it because it wasnt all capped?
cherries. honey. what more could anyone want?!
tabitha
Yum!!!
I used to do about 40lbs of cherries a year by hand and oh my did that give my wrists such aches. I finally got one of those pitters with the plungers and what a difference that makes, if you ever see one, pick it up. Mine is non-electric just a bowl that feeds the cherries into a pit, that you pit with a plunger - the pit falls into one container and the cherry into another.
Oh, the honey is beautiful. I am adding on my third deep super this weekend with a queen excluder. My bees are busy girls indeed and it looks as though yours are too!
I wish we had a cherry tree. I also use a hand pitter.
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