Solar extractors

[cissa]

I get the basic concept behind solar extractors for wax, and I'm planning on building one this summer

Comments

[il_volpe]

Heat damages honey.

[squid_ink]

^ this

[cissa]

I know- but since some of the honey is going to be used for mead, and thus heated anyway (because we prefer that to adding camden tablets to the brew), I figured some heat during extraction would be OK for that. For raw honey I'm extracting cold, obviously.

[cissa]

I know- but since some of the honey is going to be used for mead, and thus heated anyway (because we prefer that to adding camden tablets to the brew), I figured some heat during extraction would be OK for that. For raw honey I'm extracting cold, obviously.

[cissa]

The thing is- we don't have an extractor. For the comb honey on the thin beeswax foundation, that's fine- I just crush and drain. But we have some honey on plastic foundation from a failed hive, and I don't even know how we can get the honey out of that by hand... Since we'll be using it to make mead, it'll be heated anyway, so I'm not worried about the heat; I mostly just want to get the honey somehow, as well as the wax.

Plus, I'm curious about how the one in the catalog works. :)

[squid_ink]

what catalog is it? do you have a link? now I'm all curious...!!

[il_volpe]

Just scrape it off, it'll be messy.