decrystalisation of honey

[Kodlubanski]

Tomas,

I have read at Beesource about creamed honey.
I would like to ask experienced apicultors and producers of creamed honey if there is a possibility to put seed fine starter crystals into the honey which is being decrystallised by means of some device as grinders or metal paddles.
I'm looking for the way to unify the process of breaking the big crystals of honey with the process of making creamed honey by adding fine new starter crystals of previuos batch of honey.
Answer me if it is possible and eventually what mechanical device could be applied to get directly fine creamed honey in the same process of decrystallisation and creaming of honey.

Thanks a lot for any replies or advice.

rgds
Tomas

[Michael Bush]

>I would like to ask experienced apicultors and producers of creamed honey if there is a possibility to put seed fine starter crystals into the honey which is being decrystallised by means of some device as grinders or metal paddles.

If you grind the crystalized honey you will make the smaller crystals by grinding. The starter crystals will not be necessary. The original Dyce process says you use ground crystalized honey as seed.

>I'm looking for the way to unify the process of breaking the big crystals of honey with the process of making creamed honey by adding fine new starter crystals of previuos batch of honey.

If you grind it it's not necessary to seed it. If you are starting with liquid honey the seed helps make it crystalize quickly and uniformly and this results in smaller crystals.

>Answer me if it is possible and eventually what mechanical device could be applied to get directly fine creamed honey in the same process of decrystallisation and creaming of honey.

It is a lot of work to grind honey. It's easier to add the seed while it is still liquid and keep it at the appropriate temperature (57 °F or 13.9 °C) until it "creams". If you want to grind it (depending on how fine the grinder is) it will already be creamed honey.

http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/creamhoney.htm