Hydrogen peroxide and honey

hello mr. ed here man it's only about a week away from Christmas and I'm telling you it's about it's cold right now it's probably about 40 degrees 42 degrees something like that it's cold out here but inside the honey hood man things are on fire that's right we got the so close to Christmas right now and they are like bye and honey like crazy at the gift shop I don't want to make a video on how ID crystallize the honey because our honey that's been stored in the drums now since June it's like solid it's solid but I'll long I've set up the honey house to be able to be crystallize our honey using a 30 gallon kettle from the monks kitchen it was brought over to the honey house when we built it and it was always in anticipation of this process of Dee crystallizing honey so today I want to go through the process of which I use to take the the honey that's in the solid crystal state it's kind of liquid some too but I mean it's like blocks and you'll see you'll show you a picture of it blocks our honey and we're gonna break it down and to go back into that beautiful liquid form so by the grace of God we will have this honey all deep crystallized you don't we take about maybe an hour hour and a half at tops to do it to bring it back to the state where then I'll be able to put it in the bottle but a few hours we'll have it in the bottle and it'll be ready to bottle up and be brought over to the gift shop set inside and do a little D crystallization of honey Oh before we go inside I want to I want to show you the latest acquisition of a honey operation here at the Abbey see the dumpster right behind me well for the last week or so we've been emptying out that building right behind me and that building is now going to become part of the abbey honey I've already taken over the peacock Hut next to the to the honey house the honey house right here and now we'll be inside of this building as well and they're going to use it as an education spot as well I'll be able to do presentations in there but let me grab the cam before we get into the honey house I'll grab the camera and I'm going to show you how big a space we got inside of this new building that we got check this yeah it don't look like much on out on the outside and I will say it does have a tendency to breathe a lot we got some broken panes right there and and the boards they're kind of Arish but beside that this place is really perfect check this out man the space in here is fantastic I've got all the shelves over there for storage of my frames boxes all of a soft of wood where the shelving here I think I'm gonna take that desk out of here add more shell shelving is more important than than tables but this cabinet right here we'll be able to do a lot of work on top of the cabinet right there and storage inside of the cabinets as well and like I said it is Irish I mean you can see this lots of cracks this building breeds very well so it's gonna be cold they're not gonna heat it or cool it it does have electricity in it already but primarily it's just gonna be a storage area and a presentation area so it's got some great light in here there's that's about its really good thing and and plus it's dry it's very dry in here so it's a large space I mean I don't know for sure but I would say it's about 45 50 feet long and about 25 or 30 feet wide so lots of space nice this is perfect for us and the really great thing too is that it's right next door to the honey house right there and the cat'll that I use to melt wax in that's going to be brought over here and it's going to play some someplace along this wall because that gas service is right on the other side of that wall so the kettle be brought in here so now I won't have to be rolling all over the campus melting wax so let's get inside of a honey Hut right now and I'm going to show you this process of D crystallizing out honey now everyone is familiar with the idea that honey over a certain time is going to start crystallized but at least almost all honey does I've got some acacia honey that's 8 years old and it's still just like the day that I got it but for most part you know what he's going to crystallize and realizing that fact when I started to can see the idea of building the the honey tub and how we're going to go about processing honey storing honey that was one of my first considerations how how am I going to process honey and store it in such a way that when the gift shop is going to need it that I'll be able to supply it to them so initially I came up with the idea that I have to store honey and drums because that's the easiest way to do it and at these drums you can move them around and since that space was very limited that would be a very high priority is to be able to move product around easily shift it around so that we can have space to work then the problem comes - what what do you do with the honey when it crystallizes because it's going to crystallize how do you deal with all that weight a drum of honey 55-gallon drum honey's gonna it's gonna weigh close to 700 pounds how do you deal with that how do you get solid honey and be able to move it I used to be able to transfer to get into liquid state how do you do lucien to dealing with drums of money that I knew I was already put in the honey in Tula was to find some kind of mechanism that we'd be able to live have the capacity to live at least 700 pounds and what I found was a mechanical lift right here this this machine right here and there's not a lot to the machine it's simply a a for this part of it right here that has an attachment where you put your eardrums in the front right here and then you lock them in and then it's mounted on a framework down here that's got two wheels on the front and then a locking mechanism back here and what the whole mechanism the system the ability to lift the drum elevated and at the same time are not necessary at the same time but also with the capacity of being able to tilt the drum to be able to empty the contents of it so there's there were a few options by actually there only two options you could either get the machine with hydraulics which is what I did or you could manually pump hydraulics with a lemur on the foot right here to lift before or and also there was a wheel to tilt it I figured that I was already humbled anyway and I'm not I'm not getting any younger I want to do the the easy part and use hydraulics so this machine comes with the attack of hydraulics and it's simply it's what works up better than our drops work off of the battery and you have you proof right here and the pump is all right here and you leave us or right here and so if you want to lift your form you press the button so the button starts activating the pump which will then push the fluid through there to elevate your drum then also it has a capacity of children so with that capacity then we are able to dump out our honey into our cap now I will say the hydraulic addition is I think there's almost two thousand dollars to get this part of it but the lift itself the manual lift is very reasonably priced fingers about 2,000 2,500 but if you add on this you're gonna tap on another 2,000 but to me it was worth putting the hydraulics on it it just makes the job so much simpler and doesn't break you down as long and it does come with a battery charger with it so he just simply unhooked the attack stand right here plug your battery charger into it that comes with it and it'll charge the battery so it's a really great system not inexpensive but but well worth it in and for what I always wanted to do what I'm trying to accomplish here in the honey that this machine fit the bill perfectly now this is a 55-gallon drum but I also run 30 gallon drums as well so there's an attack right here this insert idea fits inside of the brain right here and we'll then to put in a 30 gallon drum as well as a 55-gallon drum so that that option is available with you also so this basically the machine itself but the other part of the equation is the cattle now you see me render wax and in a kettle a dozen times probably already we had when we had the flood back in 2016 the camels were in the kitchen they were being used by the monks in the kitchen and after the flood when they changed all that stuff out having honey appropriated the chemist to use in the operation here so what I wanted to show you going to be in fact let me show you the Kevin so let me show you what we got going on with this here's our 30 gallon cattle vet that I'm going to be using now to de crystallize our honey and what's important we really it's critical in de crystallizing the honey is that we never use direct heat that's that's really important that you don't have a direct heat source on the money to raise the temperature because doing that caramelized it'll change everything in the honey so we use indirect heat in other words this is a jacketed Kevin there is a lining on the outside this this one and then on the inside there's a wall as well and in between those two walls there's water in between this and what happens is you have a burner underneath here you saw that one right at the very beginning in the video the burner ignites and then it starts heating the water inside of the kettle and then that temperature of the water starts elevating and then freeze the entire surface area of the kettle to that temperature whatever the water is so you have a thermostat right here that that regulates that temperature and I found that for me number eight that setting on eight is what works that will keep it right right around 100 agrees and it won't it won't get any hotter than that so it's it's a very simple deal I mean you see you see the cattle in use rendering lights well it's no different here we simply are going to transfer the honey from our drum the crystallized honey from our drum into our kettle now one thing that is really important that the inner wall of the kettle is that temperature of whatever it is rather 100 degrees and so it's very important that we don't want that honey to just stay on that outside wall so it's important that I stir the honey pretty consistently and regularly to transfer that heat from that outside into the inside and the inside cold this to the outside so we want to move the honey around so that that temperature is going to be distributed very evenly so it's not like you can turn the fire on and walk away you have to be here the entire time and it's not it doesn't take long I think when I did it the other last week took maybe maybe 25 minutes to break down 15 gallons of it so it's not a long time but you do have to do that it's the only thing and then i'ma show you as we're doing in this I'll show you some of the other interesting things that happen as as you're heating up the honey so I think without that you know showing you what the lift does the principles of the kettle I think we're gonna go ahead and start dumping a load of honey you [Music] you [Music] yeah I realize they could have gone a lot faster if I were to use a scraper to pull that money out but you got to admit that certainly was satisfying seeing all that honey just come out of that drum huh it's almost half a mess which is good because it'll give me a laptop about an hour and a half for this drum to completely empty out so right after the bass and lunch we'll pick this up again get this honey a little bit be crystallized our honey's all loaded up we'll go ahead and turn on the burners struck this thing up and I'm gonna start stirring up the honey I mean right away so now that Eric kettle is lit it's already starting to heat up temperatures a lot hotter it is down at the bottom and up at the top so I'm gonna go ahead and start stirring all this crystallized honey as you can see it is pretty solid in here I'm gonna start stirring this thing up getting this honey on the outside or the edge of it that's tutting touching the walls of the kettle we do that to the inside so we take that heat if honey and bring it to the inside had the cool I move out to the outside I don't know if the camera can show it but you can see it's already starting to heat up and thin out on this pony's head just even just starting that quick all right it's only been ten minutes since I first turned on the the heater and you can see already how the consistency of the honey has started to change now what you will also notice is this phone right here that started to fall and interesting enough about that phone I I really didn't know what what it really was so I asked this really wise guru bee man the 6:28 dirt mister about it and he told me what it was he said that it was hydrogen peroxide and that's what honey will form hydrogen peroxide under certain conditions and the free water that's in the honey will then be it can convert into hydrogen peroxide which is one of the reasons why honey has that the medicinal value of of healing and keeping wounds clean is because of the hydrogen peroxide in it and you know being at the dirt rooster told me that I immediately did not believe him so I went and I looked it up on Google myself and I hate to say it but the guy was right so I did look it up and you know to the best of my memory it said that all honey has glucose and what the bees when they are taking the nectar from the flowers or whatever source it is that they add an enzyme to that nectar which then converts it into honey that ends on I think it's called glucose oxy base I believe is what it's called and that enzyme is then what gives the honey the ability to produce hydrogen peroxide and now you can see the foam really starting to to create to be made right in here and like I said it's it's made from free water so in other words the water level in the honey was higher than it should have been for more than 17% of this and so it starts the form and when I did this for the first time I probably had at least a two inch layer of foam on it and I'd seen that happen before over the years and I thought so then I don't want to do anything with that that it looks bad I don't think I'll use a song but I would just scoop it off and feed it to the bees well this time I decided to to eat it and then that stuff is excellent it's it if you let it sit for a day or so it turns into like a marshmallow and it becomes like a spread so I'll get that the last batch I did with this I scooped all this stuff up and put it in cuffs and gave it to people and they're putting it in their coffees and teas and it froze real nice it should should have gotten a picture from somebody of that but by the time I'm finished getting all this honey D crystallized there's going to be a serious layer of foam or hydrogen peroxide on the top this it's been 25 minutes since we first turned the heat on as you can see there is significantly more foam on the tunnel but what what's more significant is look at the condition of the clarity of the honey this voice of crystals on on the stick via there's still a lot of crystals on there but maybe five more minutes is all that's going to be required because the boggler will then be able to handle any of the other crystals that are in there right at 40 minutes 40 minutes where we are and I mean I can stick my finger in here it's hot it's warm but it's not scalding so I know I know we're not over 110 degrees mmm-hmm so like I said before at this point my bottle is going to be able to finish any of the crystals that are still in it the bottle will be able to break those down so I just turned the heat off turn the burner off and now I'm going to move my bottle or over here but the problem is that my father will not being that it's on that dolly will not go underneath the gate it's set up too high so I have to do is I have to transfer the honey from the cowboy into a bucket and then I dump the honey that's in a bucket into the bottle so I'm gonna go ahead and start that process right now look how nice this is that's beautiful and again you have to constantly give this stuff I do not want any of this honey to overheat like I've showed you my finger in there I was checking the temperature on it and if you get this stuff too hot you're going to start killing the active stuff that's in it as well as it'll change the color and this stuff as well it's it's a caramel color looking right now because there's so much foam mixed up in it it has it settles out and that foam comes up to the top it'll all run a beautiful golden all right so I'm gonna grab them push the bottle or over here and start moving this stuff out of here it is all that hydrogen peroxide stuffing is probably a quarter-inch 3/16 of an inch layer of that stuff very tasty [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so now what I have to do is this honey that I bought up two days ago I've now got to put my labels on it and bring over to the gift shop standing like I brought six cases over there three days ago and it's already sold so this is ten more and then I'll be able to bring probably another twelve more cases of honey from what I just filled up in the bottle and about another three days so right before Christmas the day before Christmas Eve I should have another I don't know thirteen cases over there but look how pretty this honey is by constantly stirring that honey in that crystallized state and moving it it does not change the color or the contents of that honey at all that is simply beautiful I really got to get busy I got five more cases of this stuff to label and then bring ten cases over to the gift shop so that's all I got for you in this one so thanks for watching Oh before I sign up though I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year I know I post this video next week which is Christmas of already the past and New Year's almost coming so I'll say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody and I'd really like to extend my my gratitude and appreciation to all who suck to the channel over the years and the new subscribers that are continuing to subscribe to the channel it really it really wants my heart to know that there are people out there interested in in the bees and following along and trying to learn more about about them for themselves so thanks for watching keep on watching and I'll be making more god bless mr. ed I'm outie until next week [Music] it's warned up a lot since this morning this morning the wheat shoot was born we were at about 28 degrees and when I started shooting this video about 40 degrees now we're about 60 degrees and as you can see 60 degrees and these bees they're feeling that what's interesting I find interesting is that I've got the honey out here and there's more interest in the pollen than in the honey I mean there's some interest in the honey but you can tell just from the activity around the feeder these bees want this party website [Music]

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Keywords: Hydrogen peroxide and honey, crystallized honey, decrystalizing honey, barrel lift, drum lifts, kitchen kettled, honey, hydrogen peroxide, pollen substitute, feeding bees pollen substitute, feeding bees, honey bottlers, maxant honey bottler, jars of honey, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, St. Joseph Abbey, Gift Shop, heating honey for bottling

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Length: 27min 20sec (1640 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 27 2019