This is my first run of creamed honey and I have a question. Once the creamed honey is bottled and cooled to 54-57 degrees for a week, can I just store it at room temperature in a closet? Its intended as Christmas gifts and be given to family.
We store our creamed/spun honey in their glass jars at room temp. It takes ~3 weeks to reliably crystallize … in an Inkbird, temp-controlled chest freezer … at 57°F. After that, it’ll last years in that state, unless exposed to unusually high temps, as Charles mentioned. We stir the 2/3-filled, 5G buckets (with added pure oils) every hour - as it cools from ‘extraction temp’ down to 72° - when we then add the 10% starter. We jar it immediately.
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