Peter and I harvested our first bit of honey yesterday! Man-oh-man was it messy! AND SO DELICIOUS!
I couldn’t stop taking pictures at first, and then I had too ’cause things were getting far too messy.
We didn’t have a centrifugal honey extractor, so we just squeezed the honey out of the comb. Our hands were sticky and by the end I definitely had a sugar high. So, we scraped and squeezed and strained the honey through a sieve and ended up with two mason jars of honey and one of wax.
When I got up this morning, a lot of the honey had settled out of the wax, which is good since I was wondering how to get that to happen.
I think we need to find ourselves an extractor.
Just after we took the caps off. The honey flowed out.
The fresh honey tasted great! Fruity and sweet but not too strong. Bees wax sticks to your teeth, though.
The final product. A dark honey that tastes light and fruity. Thank you bees.
Peter told me to look at your blog for the full story of the honey + pictures. Welcome to Awesometown, home of Alyson and Peter! That’s so awesome! And that honey-glazed chicken was so awesome, too.