Did you know honey needs to “mature”?

Telaino durante la smielatura

One step of extraction is uncapping: removing the wax caps the bees use to seal the cells full of honey. It is done by hand, so it can never be perfect: small bits of wax always end up in the honey.

Maturing removes them by settling: wax is less dense than honey, so… it floats! After about a month all the wax has risen to the top and the honey is clear, ready for jarring.

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