Adding flavors to honey.

[Bob Wilson]

Hot honey. I suppose they add chili pepper to it. Intriguing.

[The15thMember]

I make hot honey, and man, it is GREAT!  Here's the What's Cookin' section about it; reply #425 is where I start talking about making it, and we discuss it intermittently, amongst other foods and interjected nonsense, for at least the rest of the page.  30 actually made some on What's Cookin' before me, and I think I actually got the idea from him, but I can't seem to find his post. 
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=54563.420

[Bob Wilson]

Interesting. I would have thought a little bit of ancho chili powder for flavor and a dash of cayenne for heat would do better than Frank's sauce.

[The15thMember]

Here's 30's original post about it.  We discuss it here for about a page as well. 
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=54563.380

Interesting. I would have thought a little bit of ancho chili powder for flavor and a dash of cayenne for heat would do better than Frank's sauce.

I'm sure that would work, but the idea with this is not so much about infusing the honey as it is about making a dipping sauce that is mostly honey.  With the vinegar component it's like sweet and spicy and tangy and yum!   

[lussian283]

Honey is good all aspect taste and health benefits. But if added some flavors will reduce it's benefits.

[The15thMember]

Welcome to Beemaster, lussian283. 

Honey is good all aspect taste and health benefits. But if added some flavors will reduce it's benefits.

That's not really true.  Adding additional ingredients to honey doesn't damage it in any meaningful way, especially if you don't heat it. 

[yes2matt]

Honey is good all aspect taste and health benefits. But if added some flavors will reduce it's benefits.

Welcome to beemaster!! How could adding [e.g. flavonoid] compounds reduce health benefits of honey?


If I can keep the muscovies off them, I have some ghost peppers getting ripe and some nice transparent blonde honey I'm going to jar up some whole peppers saturated in honey.  Mmmm

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[Bob Wilson]

This honey is sold in straws, for single consumption, at a honey shop in Pike's Market in Seattle. I wonder about the food coloring and flavor additives.

[Michael Bush]

For the most part I don't like flavored honey just like I don't like flavored coffee.  Coffee should taste like coffee.  Honey should taste like honey.  However, I have enjoyed some hot honey in the past and I may make some again in the future.  Just take some dried hot peppers and put them in the honey.  The heat will diffuse over time.  Pick you peppers to match your taste.  I like the regular dried red chili peppers.  But if you like it really hot there are habenaro and ghost peppers...

[Lesgold]

My neighbours gave me a jar of ginger infused honey when they returned from a recent holiday. It was actually very nice. Does anyone here know how to make it using raw ginger? Would be interested in finding out the method. As ginger contains moisture and wild yeasts on the skin, fermentation of the honey may result so the correct technique would be critical to achieve success.

[Bob Wilson]

It seems every time I go into a store, nowadays, that I find some kind of honey/flavor combination.
Here is a honey and syrup mix.
When I put syrup on one of my biscuits and honey on the other, this mix happens naturally on my plate.

[The15thMember]

It seems every time I go into a store, nowadays, that I find some kind of honey/flavor combination.
Here is a honey and syrup mix.
When I put syrup on one of my biscuits and honey on the other, this mix happens naturally on my plate.

That seems totally useless to me.  Like you say, how hard is it to make that in any container if you happen once in a very great while to need or want it. 

[Ben Framed]

I sympathize with you both, Bob and Member. I am personally not a fan of flavored honey either. On the other hand their must be some type of market for it unless it's a fad, a fleeting passing thing.

Phillip