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!
Oooh, I'd love to hear your details on hand extraction. No way am I buying one of those expensive extractors!
ReplyDeleteyum! do you have to refrigerate it because it wasnt all capped?
ReplyDeletecherries. honey. what more could anyone want?!
tabitha
Yum!!!
ReplyDeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteI wish we had a cherry tree. I also use a hand pitter.
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