Honey is the fruit of the labor of many thousands of bees and a skilled beekeeper, from whose hands comes a natural product saturated with a huge amount of vitamins and microelements, loved by many. Getting honey is not easy, because you need to process the honeycomb so that the honey is pure and tasty.
It is necessary
- - knife,
- - table,
- - honey extractor.
Instructions
Step 1
In the combs, bees not only store the honey they have obtained, but also raise their numerous offspring. The combs themselves are made of wax and are usually formed within frames skillfully crafted by beekeepers. To begin with, such frames should be "printed", this is done using a special knife approximately 180 millimeters long.
Step 2
The knife is double-edged and has a special bend, which allows the human hand not to come into contact with the honeycomb material. It is with the help of such a blade, heated in warm water, that the honeycomb caps are carefully removed. You need to remove a layer no more than 1 millimeter wide from top to bottom. Some households use special forks with a special tooth shape or gas burners, which are considered "expensive pleasure".
Step 3
It is advisable to remove honey in warm or even hot weather, but if it is cool outside, it is worthwhile to steam the frames to a temperature of 22-25 ° C. And the honey will become thinner and the wax softer.
Step 4
After the performed procedure, the honeycomb is placed on a special table, which almost any large beekeeper has. The table is nothing more than a rectangular box, lined inside with a special sheet material, the bottom slopes towards the crane. The table has a built-in metal mesh that holds the lids and prevents them from mixing with the finished product after "printing". Inside the table there are inclined mesh frames, on which the honeycombs are placed during the product extraction process. The honey is periodically drained from the tray, freeing up space for a new batch.
Step 5
The most modern way to extract honey from a honeycomb is a hand-operated honey extractor, it is a tank with a special rotating drum inside it. All frames are installed along the chords of the circle, in the direction of rotation of the rotor. The frames begin to spin at low speeds, while about half of the total volume of honey is outflowing. After a while, the honey extractor is stopped and the frames are turned over, this makes it possible to extract the second half of the volume from the opposite side of the honeycomb. In the second case, the speed should be systematically increased. The collection of honey residues is carried out by re-turning the frames. In the design of the honey extractor, centrifugal forces are used, which enable honey, literally, to fly out of the cells onto the walls of the tank.
Step 6
After pumping out, honey needs to calm down, for this it needs to be left in the sun for a couple of hours. During this time, the wax particles will rise, and the delicacy itself will become transparent.
