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Hello,
It has been raining for the last couple of days. My plan was to pull honey supers this weekend and extract.
I have access to a garage that will have a dehumidifier running.
Will it be acceptable to pull honey supers in the morning, run a dehumidifier several hours before extracting in the room, and then extract without having any issues?
Thanks,
Nick
How do you know that you need to dehumidify the honey... Maybe it was low moisture to begin with, Point is without a refractometer you are just guessing. Mann Lake has one for 60 something on sale this week..or maybe your club has one to loan
A refractometer is a good thing to have. I do have one, but it is currently in several bits as it took a nice fall.
Honey was 95-100% capped, closer to 100%. I think things went well, just worried about moisture more than I should be.
Thanks.
If I thought that I would need to "dry" my honey...
I would get some get some large aluminum serving pans ( disposable ) in the range of 15X24 inches. So that it had a large surface area.
I would go ahead and extract and place into these pans to "dry" in the dehumidified room.
Pour it into a bottling bucket later and cover with a layer of plastic wrap.
Fuzzy
Hello,
The bee club I belong to did moisture testing last night for any members that wanted to have their honey tested. Mine tested at 17.4%.