REAL honey!

[PhenoMenal]

Well over a decade ago i remember trying honeycomb for the first time and remember how much i enjoyed it so today I bought some, and it was just as sweet and delicious as I remember :smile: ...

Put it this way - YOU HAVENT HAD REAL HONEY UNLESS YOUVE HAD IT FRESH OUTTA THE COMB! It is just so much different and better in every way than the processed stuff you buy from supermarkets

I bought several containers as I'll be giving some away as Christmas presents, I know my Mum'll love it!

As you can see I've eaten quite a bit already in the one go, lol

I just eat it straight out of the container with a spoon (something I'd never do with processed supermarket honey), i love the wax in it too - after youve eaten the spoonful of honey youre left with a small ball of wax in your mouth that you can either chew like chewing gum (its perfectly edible) or simply spit it out

This particular one is Western Australian native bee honey and is 74% sugar :smile: ..... its nutritional info, per 100gms:
¤ Energy - 1201kj
¤ Protein - 0.6g
¤ Fat Total - 4.6g
¤ Fat Saturated - 0.0g
¤ Carbohydrates - 74.4g
¤ Sugars - 74.4g
¤ Sodium - 0.07mg

Some interesting things about natural honey ...
- Any HAYFEVER or SINUS sufferers here? *puts hand up* honey is a natural alternative for the relief of both
- Honey is the only food that doesn't go off - it has no use-by date. You can give it to your great grandchildren.
- No artificial anything
- To prevent it crystallizing simply store it in the freezer until you need it, take it out and 15 mins later itll be ready.
- Most microorganisms don't and can't grow in honey
- Comb honey production requires good beekeeping skills. It cannot be easily mechanized and is therefore quite labor intensive.
- Estimates are that bees fly 150,000 miles to yield one pound of beeswax (530,000 km/kg)

Do yourself a favour and try it!!!

 

[Szslack]

Looks mighty tasty, PhenoM!

 

[Sammet]

I've currently got about 10 different kinds of honey all brought back from New Zealand. It's great stuff, if it crystalises you get crunchy honey

Honey from all over the world is great, with different tastes in the honey depending on the local flowers the bees drink nectar from. Here's a map of all production across the world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2005honey_(natural).PNG

Try some different honeys from different places and you'll be amazed. But go easy on it though, lots of sugar!!

 

[Abstract Pillow]

I dunno where to get that but it looks good! You inspired me to get a jar of organic honey though. Honey-toast is the shit!

 

[simpleword]

Never was a huge honey fan but the farmers market across the street from me had all kinds of different honeys, I tried all of them and loved the one that was made with the nectar from vetch, it's real buttery and much better than your typical clover honey IMO.

 

[EatCannabisRaw]

Pheno - You sure that isn't heated? Cuz I've seen some real raw honey in the stars (taken out of the honeycomb) but its more white looking. All the heated honey that u get in normal stores looks like the stuff you have.

So what I feel is they took the honeycomb, then heated it...? Maybe I'm right. All I know is when you heat/process honey you destroy the enzymes, which is what honey is chock full of supposedly. That and all the trace minerals.

 

[Boxy Brown]

I have a hive under one of my orange trees and every year when the tree flowers I indulge in a mass amount of orange blossom honey.

 

[igrowdadankest]

I eat honey on just about anything.In my coffe on my fries.Good stuff man.

 

[marx2k]

Damn thats a ton of carbs But yeah, that stuff tastes good. 1/4" cube of that comb in my tea would taste very nicely. I love putting medicinal honey in my oatmeal.

Honey on fries and in coffee? (Taking a sip of coffee).. hm... nah

 

[genkisan]

I collect exotic honey....love the weirder varieties.


If you wanna try the best (imho) honey in the world, try Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey......it is AWESOME.

 

[Geno420]

genkisan do you recommend a certain company for that tasmanian leatherwood honey i saw a few websites that offered it. TasmanianHoney.com looked the best as far as website design but you can't judge a product by it's website... according to them its organic and cold brewed (whatever that means) im not a honey expert by any means

 

[marx2k]

Is there any room in this thread to talk about the disappearance of honeybees?

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/World_agricultural_honeybee_disappearance

 

[Guest]

looks tasty... wonder where I could get some around here

 

[marx2k]

the worst part is when you start accepting the comb as edible just because the whole thing looks so good (especially high). I had forgotten how good honey is ontop of some buttery toast until the other day, it had been about 9 years since I made it.

creamed whipped honey on top of a toasted, hot english muffin... and some strong Ethiopian coffee.. mMMmMMmmM

 

[gizmo]

after reading this thread i just realised
i'm in middle age AND I'VE NEVER TRIED HONEY

i'm gonna go get some tomorow and try it

 

[NOKUY]

man I love honey...esp honey comb ...when I finally get my homestead i'll have a cpl hives ..... prolly have to put them on top of the cache tho (I can only imagine the grizzly bear frenzy that would ensue)

I usually put honey in tea instead of regular sugar, and grilled peanut butter-honey sandwiches

also love it on crakers w/ peanut butter

...and honey glazed salmon mmmmmmmmmm

I'll quit now

 

[PhenoMenal]

Pheno - You sure that isn't heated? Cuz I've seen some real raw honey in the stars (taken out of the honeycomb) but its more white looking. All the heated honey that u get in normal stores looks like the stuff you have.

Heat treating will darken honey (and yes in the process also destroy many of honeys good properties unfortunately), but this is untreated monofloral honey (the beekeeper attempts to restrict them to getting their honey from only one type of flower altho in practice its nearly impossible to keep it 100% monofloral), and both the colour and flavour is due to that source of nectar - some honeys are mostly clear, some are very dark (which I'd assume would be richer/sweeter if molasses is anything to go by!?)

For example here is a jar of organic honey from Carlisle Honey in the US extracted from the comb but as specified on its website has not been heat treated or processed in any way:

If you can't find any honeycomb locally just use google and im sure youll find some (honey is very common afterall!), just use a search query like this one and add your city name to query:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=honeycomb+honey
And add 'order online' to the search query if you cant find any local

 

[Sammet]

Mmm, just had some honeycomb on toast, inspired by this thread

 

[marx2k]

This thread has inspired me to buy some peanut butter and some honey tomorrow. It's better than jelly when put on an Ak-Mak cracker with the peanut butter (and banana slices).. oh fuuuck

 

[Sammet]

lol nice marx2k. You should start a thread "wierd food combinations that taste good"