What is the storage advice for hot honey?
More and more people are discovering hot honey, and we totally get it – the combination of sweet and spicy is incredibly tempting. It’s not just super delicious, it’s also surprisingly versatile and not too spicy. That’s why everyone should have it at home, but how do you store hot honey? You might have experienced crystallization with regular honey before. You want to avoid that.
Storage advice hot honey
Actually, the storage advice for hot honey isn’t much different from regular honey. It’s best to store it in a dark place at room temperature. Don’t store it chilled (below 15 degrees Celsius), as it will crystallize. This isn’t a sign of poor quality, but rather a characteristic of real, natural honey. If your honey does accidentally crystallize, you can make it liquid again by heating it (up to a maximum of 45 degrees Celsius).
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How? Place the jar or bottle without the lid in a pan with lukewarm water. The water doesn’t need to boil. This gentle heating gradually makes the honey liquid again. This method is not only effective but also preserves all the valuable nutrients. After about an hour, it should be liquid again, and you can use the honey as normal! Try to keep it at a consistent temperature after that, as honey doesn’t like to fluctuate in temperature too often.
Especially in winter, it can happen that a bottle of hot honey is ‘exposed’ to low temperatures during transport from us to the customer, and as a result, it may arrive crystallized. Not ideal, but you certainly don’t need to throw it away! Just apply the above method, and you can use it in no time. Something pretty genius you can do with it, for example, is make hot honey butter.
