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Crush & strain-nylon cheesecloth, plastic mesh filter, stainless steel mesh filters?
I have a handfull of frames with plastic foundation from which I would like to extract the honey. For this small number of frames it seems the crush and strain method is the obvious choice. My plan is to use the white plastic 5 gallon buckets and filters.
I see that filters that people use for C&S include the nylon cheesecloth available in the paint department at the hardware store, or the 200/400/600 micron plastic mesh filters or the 200/400/600 micron stainless steel filters available from the big bee equipment suppliers.
Can anyone comment on which ones work the best? How necessary is the fine 200 mesh filter? How durable are the plastic mesh filtes, generally?
TIA
--shinbone
I have a handfull of frames with plastic foundation from which I would like to extract the honey. For this small number of frames it seems the crush and strain method is the obvious choice. My plan is to use the white plastic 5 gallon buckets and filters.
I see that filters that people use for C&S include the nylon cheesecloth available in the paint department at the hardware store, or the 200/400/600 micron plastic mesh filters or the 200/400/600 micron stainless steel filters available from the big bee equipment suppliers.
Can anyone comment on which ones work the best? How necessary is the fine 200 mesh filter? How durable are the plastic mesh filtes, generally?
TIA
--shinbone