It is believed that in no case should one drown honey, because this process leads to the loss of all its vitamins and useful qualities. Experienced beekeepers and specialists involved in this natural product are sure that these are unnecessary concerns. Let's find out how to melt honey. In order for all the useful properties of this sweet to remain safe and sound, you need to observe some conditions.
Tips
To begin with, the crystallization of natural bee honey is a natural process. Only in combs can it be in a liquid state for many days and months, because the bees seal their honeycombs quite tightly. Therefore, when it crystallizes, it does not lose its vitamins and beneficial properties. But if you suddenly needed this product in liquid form, and you do not know how to melt honey, then for starters you will need:
- metal mesh for cleaning dishes;
- glass or enameled mug;
- large and roomy pan.
Fill the prepared mug with honey a little more than half. Then we fill the pan with clean water, put it on gas and light a fire. When the water begins to boil and generate a lot of steam in the pan, lower the net to clean the pots and put a mug filled with honey on its bottom. You ask: “Why do you need to lower the net to the bottom?” So that the water between the bottom of the pan and the mug moves freely.
Melt honey
And now we learn how to melt the candied honey. The accessories for this process will need the same ones, only the water should be slightly less than the edge of a glass or enameled mug (about one and a half to two centimeters). Then you need to make the fire quieter, and somewhere in one minute we begin to stir the contents with a spoon.
We do this with an interval of about one minute two times. It would be better if you remove the mug of honey from the pan, so that it would be more convenient to interfere and at the same time give it stability. After these manipulations it is necessary to stir it all the time, it is very important that the heating temperature is not more than 50-60 ° .
If honey is no more than a year old, then you only need about ten minutes to melt it. After this, it is desirable to cool the liquid product and place it in a glass jar, tightly closing the lid. Put her in a cool place. It is not recommended to melt the natural candied honey again. It is necessary to use it as soon as possible, otherwise it will not be as useful as before.
Melt the honey in the microwave
Many gourmets and simply lovers of natural bee labor are exclusively in liquid form, but do not want to spend their precious time preparing water baths, often ask how to melt honey in the microwave. In fact, this is a pretty easy way out.
A microwave oven, and popularly a microwave oven, can very quickly, with the help of powerful waves, heat up any food or liquid in a matter of minutes. Just click on the necessary buttons - and the process starts. But you must remember that honey loses all its properties at a heating temperature above sixty degrees. Therefore, if in your microwave oven there is an opportunity to lower the power to an average value, then do it better, otherwise you will end up with an absolutely useless product that will only be called “sweet amber”.
And yet, how to melt honey? After reducing the power, take a container (preferably specially designed for use in microwave ovens), place honey in it, put it on a special glass plate that is inside your oven, and lightly press the +30 buttons to set the desired time. In order for it to completely become liquid, only 30 seconds is enough. But if the natural product is very sugared, then one minute is enough.
Another variant
How to melt honey? There is still a good method. But this is suitable for those cases when the "sweet amber" urgently you do not need. And yet, put a jar or other container filled with honey near the stove. After all, you cook a variety of dishes every day, several times. Therefore, the heat coming from the gas stove will melt the contents of the can within a few hours, days, weeks. It is up to you to decide when and for what purpose it will be needed.
Conclusion
And so you learned how to melt honey by various methods. Most importantly, do not forget about the heating temperature and microwave power. You do not want to use it without useful substances?
It is impossible to store melted honey for a long time, so use it as quickly as possible, for example, bake a cake or make an alcohol tincture. There are a lot of recipes using this natural product. But it is best to use it in the form in which it is intended to be, that is, solid. In this state, it can stand in your banks for a very long time and at the same time retain all its useful qualities.