Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig 22.
MOD UK tea strainer
Other filters are available from bee-supply
shops, and these are simply stainless-steel
sieves of various sizes through which you
pour your honey. They are all very easy to
operate.
Honey bucket (or several) with a tap
A honey extractor can hold only so much
honey before you need to empty it through
a filter to make more room in the extractor.
You will therefore require one or more honey buckets for this purpose. These can be
made of food-grade plastic or stainless steel, and they must have a tap at the bottom for
draining the honey into jars or other containers.
Make a conscious effort to ensure that, before you use these buckets, the taps are shut.
Honey is silent when it runs out of containers, and you won't notice it until you tread in
it or see it appearing under the door. This warning goes for the extractor as well. I have
extracted honey and lost it at the same time because it flowed out of the tap all over the
floor - in silence.
And that is it at first. So, armed with your borrowed extractor, bread knife and bowl of
hot water, together with your muslin bag and honey buckets with taps firmly shut, you
are now ready to take the honey away from your bees. How do you go about this?
Removing honey
Once all your extraction equipment has been collected together and your extraction
room is ready (often the kitchen), you can go out to the bees and remove the honey.
