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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: squidink on August 30, 2013, 06:28:30 pm
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I have just made up quite a few cut honey combs for the first time.
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out of interest as bee keepers do you spit or swallow the wax?
I have decided i am a spitter.
8-)
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I'm a spitter too!
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I eat both the honey and the comb.
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Swallow;
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb , sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
I've past the fifty mark (54) I figure I need every advantage I can get. "Healthy Bones" Sometimes I believe the good Lord puts stuff right in front of us. I hope this is one of those times.
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I do both. I try to eat a little on a regular basis.
Jim
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Interesting title
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If you put it in your mouth, swallowing some is gonna happen.
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If you eat it with a cracker, you will never have the wax gum up. I like a little cheese and maybe a roasted pecan topped with comb honey on a cracker.
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Swallow;
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb , sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
I've past the fifty mark (54) I figure I need every advantage I can get. "Healthy Bones" Sometimes I believe the good Lord puts stuff right in front of us. I hope this is one of those times.
Good Point! I'm going to try to eat more of the comb! I need every advantage I can get also!!
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I eat the comb sometimes, it's supposed to be healthy for you, but I just don't see wax as being to healthy for you, so not like I chow down on the comb.
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BTB;
Is there a difference between wax and comb? I had the notion that they were the same.
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Nice!
Is that from the year?
Where did you get the boxes from? Planning on doing some cut comb this year and will need boxes.
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BTB;
Is there a difference between wax and comb? I had the notion that they were the same.
Prpbably means if you start with a foundation vs foundationless? Just a guess though. Never done comb or chunk myself. Get I few request from the older generation occasionally. Older than me and I am over the mid century :)
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Older than me and I am over the mid century :)
My daddy is 80 and lives in in Pickett County, Tennessee. He prefers honey on the comb. I think it is a generational preference, and I also think it's a Southern thing. I could be wrong about the latter, but I've never seen anyone ever eat it out here.
The only caveat to that is I saw a Ross Rounds being sold for $14.95 each at a roadside fruit stand outside of Pasco, Washington yesterday.
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How long can comb honey be stored in the plastic boxes?
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It will outlast the plastic at the right temp.
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and I also think it's a Southern thing. I could be wrong about the latter, but I've never seen anyone ever eat it out here.
And I thought it was a Northern thing :) Most definitely a generation thing here in the South for those that do ask.
I know of a guy that was selling Ross Rounds to a Church up North. They used them in their worship service. He said when he has, I belive it was a thousand, they came after them. I belive at that time, several years back, he was getting $5 a round.
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I've noticed 90% of my Honey Customers want Comb in the Jars.
I am setting up to produce more comb honey this next season using shallow boxes and thin foundation.
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I know of a guy that was selling Ross Rounds to a Church up North. They used them in their worship service.
Since your post I've been trying to think of ways someone could use a Ross Round in a worship service. Communion? Gifts for visitors? I have to say I'm stumped.
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Palouse; Same here I'm scratching my head on that one.
Now I've eaten honey that tasted so good it made you want to have church..,