Creamed Honey Containers

[Chef Isaac]

I have been using the one pound creamed honey tubs from Better Bee. The price went up from last year to .45 cents a piece.

Anyone using any other type of tubs that are less expensive?

[lloyd@rossrounds.com]

Gosh, $.45 is an awful price...and I really like Betterbee as a supplier. Hopefully, you are near a metropolitan area. If so, get hold of yellow pages and look for suppliers of paper goods. More specfically, you are looking for companies that sell everything from toilet paper to paper plates to berry boxes 'to the trade'. In Albany NY, a city of fewer than 100,000 and a metro area of perhaps 500,000 we must have six such companies...probably more. The smallest will open cartons and sell sleeves of containers and covers.
If you can, visit them with a container in hand. The container sizes are based on water weight. To hold 1 lb. creamed honey you need a 12 oz. container. To narrow down your choices of places to visit, ask for 12 oz. plastic containers similar to those used to hold cottage cheese.
You should do a lot better than $.45, not to mention avoiding the shipping costs. But I personally would not use them. You should be making a product that you can be proud to display in a glass jar!

Best of luck,

Lloyd

[riverrat]

I use the glass hex jars for creamed honey. They have a good classic look

[chinitoe]

my creamed honey looks ugly in a glass jar because it will create some white specs on some areas of the glass, i think its because of the contraction of the honey and glass and it forms some air bubbles that is visible...

any of have the same problems?

[Beemaninsa]

Chintoe, mabuhay! Many prefer plastic tubs to avoid the problem you may be having. Creamed honey is beautiful in glass, however, sometimes when the honey is crystalizing in a glass jar or even after the process is complete the product can pull away from the glass, creating an air pocket. Fructose crystals migrate to this air pocket creating a white "frosting". Frosting is perfectly fine except some consider it unsightly or spoiled looking. If you continue using glass, you might try minimizing the frosting by keeping storage temperature constant, avoid rough handling, using honey at the higher end of the moisture scale, maybe 18.5%. If your problem is simply bubbles rising on the side of your glass, you must find a way not to inject air when mixing your starter in. I hope this helps.

[chinitoe]

thanks beemaninsa, nice to hear from a kakabayan. i just put my creamed honey in the ref and out for a few hours and back in the ref. i guess ill have to fid plastic tumblers here....

[Grant]

45 cents?

My last order of 8-ounce deli containers cost me 16 cents each. They have other sizes. Try this web site and search for your specifics.

www.wesellcoffee.com

Here's the link to the plastic deli container page.

http://www.wesellcoffee.com/page29.html

Grant
Jackson, MO

[katmike]

Try Dadant - 33 cents

https://www.dadant.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=400

[Hayseed]

With Betterbees containers, you are paying for the design and printing. Makes an attractive product. You have to decide what that feature is worth.
Dale