The15thMember, We have strived in keeping this particular topic, on topic. I am sure to hear from Ace on this. I promise we will get back on track... (it may take a post or two) 
Thank you for your patience!
Phillip
It's fine. I know what I'm getting into when I post down here. There's always going to be some off-topic yik-yaking in the coffee house.
Regarding freeze-dried honey - I've no idea if it would work - but little "honey cubes" would be cool. Anyways ... just thoughts ....
(I gotta get me one of those machines ... I'd be trying to freeze-dry everything - maybe even the cat ... 
) 
... or a bunny ... Definitely a bunny!
I'm just going to ignore the comment about the cat. . . .
But we'll definitely be freeze drying some rabbit really soon, so I'll give you the juicy (or I guess not juicy, since it's dried
) details on that one.
So I did some looking about honey and it's as I suspected. Honey is a supersaturated liquid, basically meaning that it has so many solids (in this case sugar) dissolved in it that under normal circumstances it would already be a solid. For example, if you tried to stir sugar into water to make the solution only 18% water, it would never work, because you have WAY more sugar than water. As a result honey doesn't ever technically freeze, it just gets more and more viscous as the temp. lowers. Now it does undergo a glass transition at about -50F, where the molecules would rearrange and the honey would cease to flow, but I don't know if the freeze dryer goes that low (the preset freeze temp is -10F for the freeze cycle, although you can change it). The other thing is that substances like honey that form amorphous solids, or "glasses", have different properties, so I'm not sure how the honey would react to the drying process even if you could get it to form a glass, and I'm not sure what would happen to it once the temperature rose again.
Edit: I just thought of another reason why this would be especially pointless. So if I were to freeze dry liquid Kool-Aid, the machine would suck all the water out and I'd be left with the powder I started with, which if I added the right amount of water to again, would turn back into Kool-Aid. Well if I freeze dried the honey, and was left only with the sugar solids that are in the liquid honey, I could never rehydrate the honey and get it back to the way it was, because it's supersaturated. This would mean that by freeze drying it, I'd essentially be permanently diluting it if I wanted it liquid ever again. And if not, I'm left with dry sugar, which I could have just purchased at the store from Domino. (Not literally, as it's not cane sugar, but you get the point.)
Also obviously this process would probably destroy any of the delicate flavors and enzymes that make raw honey so good.
