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Honey Harvesting: Part 2 (it’s the fun part!)

August 9, 2023 /

Welcome to the most exciting part of my honey adventure. Last week, I shared some information about bee hives and frames. Today, I am sharing the process of slinging honey from the frames. Susie and her husband Phillip use a manual centrifuge machine and I got to use it too! But first how did we get the honey out of those capped frames? Remember the frames were covered with a layer of wax.

Before putting a frame in the manual centrifuge machine, you must slice off the top layer of wax so the honey can come out. Using a sharp knife, Susie showed me how to do this and I had a turn at it.

You try your best to only take off the top layer of wax with as little honey as possible.

Nothing goes to waste: below you can see the pieces of wax that have been collected and returned to the bees for them to lick off all of the honey.

The bees are happy to help out once again!

Then the wax can be melted down into wax blocks or something else.

Now look at all of that delicious honey that is ready to be harvested!

The centrifuge machine can hold 4 frames at a time.

The strainer catches wax, bee parts and other impurities.

You first rotate the handle slowly for a couple of minutes then very quickly to get all of the honey slung out. Frames are then turned in the opposite way to get the rest of the honey out.

The harvested honey is collected in a large 55 gallon stainless steel container before being jarred.

Yummy, yummy!

A bientôt!

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