Max,
The amount of honey recovered compared to the time taken to do the work and then clean up the equipment is probably closer to a young child?s pocket money. Waste is not good but sometimes you have to use common sense and just put up with that sort of loss. Obviously large scale operations or people with a few hives would see it differently. Now that I use a wax melter to do the hard work for me, a lot of time is saved and the honey is still recovered.