I have made my own seed Crystal .With a mortar and pestle.. you can buy seed Crystal.. Hope you have a great adventure if you try this.
BEE HAPPY Jim 134
Last year was my first time making creamed honey and this is what I did too. It turned out a little on the more harder side and this year I realized it was because I didn't really use a %, I just sorta eyeballed and think I added way too much seed. This year I stuck closer to the 10%, and it's really nice and smooth. I'm getting really good feedback on it and have sold all but one of the jars I made.
I posed the question because I gave a half pint jar to this kid at work who really loves honey. He'd never had creamed honey before, although he was very familiar with comb honey. He was so excited to have it and really loved it. But, he left it in his car one hot day, and he told me later that it had reliquified and had just turned into regular honey again. We never found out what could have happened to the honey because, like I said he loves honey, and he ate it all up before it crystalized again. lol
Last year, I made it more when the temps were cool. In my garage. The temp was perfect. Right around 55*F. That took only about a week. This year I wanted to have some for sale while I still had regular honey also, so I made some in a cooler with ice. At first the temperature was fluctuating because I was trying to play with the lid, trying to get the temp right. It was very slow going for about 2 weeks. (it was only a cheap Styrofoam cooler and the outside temps were still in the 90s) I finally worked it out where two frozen ice packs lasted about a full day and night to maintained around high 50s. Two large frozen water bottles last from morning to night, or night to morning, before needing to be exchanged. It was kind of a pain but it turned out really nice. That took about another week before it cured properly.
Great story, Mr. Bush. I remember reading that before somewhere. I think I'd like to learn more about the crystallization process...Oh great, now I need to learn chemistry too! ;) lol
Ace, what is the consistency of your creamed honey? I put a thermostat in my fridge and on the lowest setting, it was in the upper 40s. I opted not to use it. Mine I would say is more toffee like.