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Honey's shelf life is longer than the shelf it sits on. We have edible honey from ancient tombs in egypt

Honey lasts indefinitely. They literally found 2000 year old Roman honey on a shipwreck, solidified in a large ceramic pot. They heated it back up, clarified it, and then ate some. They said it tasted delicious, albeit different than other flavors. That was because the flowers that the bees fed on were different!

Don’t forget that many large honey companies also dilute the honey with syrups to cut on costs

"extend its shelf life" Like that's actually necessary.

“Extends its shelf life” :D .. lol, honey doesn’t have a shelf life.

Fun fact: pasteurization extends the shelflife of honey from 5,000 years to 5,010 years 👍

Bro just recommended microwaving raw honey😂

"Raw" honey can be even more fluid and runny and crystal clear than "pasteurised honey". My grandpa was a hobbist beekeeper and we always had fresh honey. The honey made from the flowers of a tree called "black locust tree" known as pseudoacacia is always almost transparent, runny and the most amazing honey I ve had.

honey, honey doesn’t expire.

Beekeeper here, 3 things. 1) DO NOT microwave honey. It kills off the microbes in the honey that are good for you. 2) Honey doesn’t expire. It crystallizes. Simply reheat in a bowl of warm-hot water (refer to #1) 3) just a friendly reminder to never give honey to infants under 12 months. Please ask your doctor if you have questions.

Bro violated that honey bottle

As a non-american, I didn't even know there was a pasteurised honey

This guy is the reason we have an expiration date on himalayan salt.

Honey does not have a shelf life. When it's heated, it is to keep the honey from crystalizing for a longer time. When it does start to crystallize again, it can be rewarmed in a warm water bath. Just keep the honey from getting water in it. I'm glad you like honey! So many benefits when used in moderation. I used to help my family when we had bees.

I had no idea about pasteurised honey until now. I'm so grateful to have honey straight from the beekeepers in Poland.

My dad is a bee keeper and honey from stores is basically just corn syrup. They heat treat it so it takes out all of the stuff that you think is helping your allergies. Local honey is a 25-50 mile distance from the store so when items from stores say they are local but the honey is from Florida but you live in Texas it’s really not. That’s was a really random paragraph about honey..😭 Edit: also honey stays good forever but I does crystallize which is really easy to fix

As a beekeeper that Honey looks more like creamed honey or granulated then raw honey, you intentionally cream it to use as a spread by adding dextrose crystals and stirring it, while granulated is the same reaction done unintentionally. also you do not microwave honey you should slowly heat it by submerging it's container in boiling water or it will recrystallize quickly

Even if honey had been sitting on your shelf for 2,000 years, that honey would still be as good as the day you opened it

I like grabbing local honey it’s always cool to see the color of the honey change through the year

some honey will stay completely clear forever because of less cystals in the pollen such as Acacia tree honey. it stay completely clear and will keep forever. it's immortal honey

As a beekeeper…DO NOT MICROWAVE HONEY

Microwaving raw honey is about the worst possible thing you can do to it. If you need to warm it up, use a warm water bath (but make sure no water gets into the honey). Also, honey doesn't go bad if stored away from moisture. They have found edible honey that's several thousands of years old.

Did you know, another excellent reason to choose raw honey is the abundance of enzymes found within it that are otherwise removed during pasteurization. Be careful not to over heat the honey whether it be in the microwave or by boiling it to soften it. The best method to preserving these enzymes while softening honey is to slowly heat it in water that doesn’t exceed 105 degrees, or place the honey outside in the sun

As a beekeeper our honey comes out of the hive in the crystal look what you are calling pasteurized or regular.

Honey never spoils it doesn't need to be pasturized.. it lasts forever

Just a correction from a beekeeper, It's not cloudy, it's crystalised, where the sugar will turn into small crystals in colder temperatures. Depending on how much you strain it, depends on how many crystals it has, and how easy it will crystalise. Pasteurised honey is often strained and heated which removes natural enzymes as you said, but also stops crystallisation for a very long duration of time.

lol i had raw honey straight out of the hive in Africa… literally had bees still in it, looked like regular liquid honey, it was almost clear because of the local flowers in the bush there.

I just bought the thicker type because I like spreading it on toast. The texture is great

I had 5 lbs. of honey. The whole thing crystallized. I just dug out what I needed and melted it. Honey has a shelf life of eternity it seems. They found a jar of 3,000 year old honey that was still good.

"Extends shelf life" bro, honey is the only food that NEVER goes bad

A honey bee lives for 40 days, in its 40 days it produces one spoon honey. So make sure you do something worth that these bees gave their life for that good taste and great product.

I get raw honey every single time. I noticed a big difference in flavor, raw filtered honey is always more crisp and it’s just better for you. I always integrate it into a preworkout food to give me carbs for training

Pro tip. Honey never ever goes bad. It never spoilds

Honey is one of those things you shouldn't cheap out on but you also shouldn't go for the most expensive option thinking it's the best.

I've tried raw honey before and this thing hits different it's so sweet yet so unique

Put it in hot water to liquefy it. Zapping it in the microwave also kills the beneficial enzymes. It's basically flash-pasteurization

Honey does NOT expire, but the container might, so be careful.

I got a little jar of raw honey at a health food store when I was a kid and it was absolutely delicious. It was more “raw” than this though, it really looked like it had been taken straight out of a hive with zero processing. It had little crunchy bits of honeycomb and it was like a pale golden-beige kind of opaque color. It was less consistent in color than this honey too, had little pieces of stuff in it that was probably from the hive. Now that I think about it, it probably had some dead bee parts in it, but that didn’t cross my mind then. Whatever, it was really good anyway 😂

"honey doesn't expire" He was explaining what pasteurization does. It's not JUST used on honey, guys. Milk and cheese also get pasteurized which extends their shelf life considerably.

Bro, honey never goes bad, not even for thousands of years

3,000 year old Egyptian honey has entered chat.

I just eat honey right from the comb chunks, best method in my opinion. It's super common to eat it that way where I'm from

Tell me you don't know anything about honey without telling me... you gave me an essay.

Extend shelf life? Someone tell him honey doesn't go bad.

Extends it's shelf life from infinity to infinity times 2

I LOVE raw honey! Its less tarty then pasteurized honey, tastes sweeter and the texture is BRAIN-MELTING 😍😋

Bro is putting a metal spoon inside honey 💀💀💀

I lost it when he mentioned EXTEND SHELF LIFE, honey literally stays like for a Century 😂

you’re the reason there is confusion about honey.

The one thing I didn’t know about this was that pasteurization changes the flavor of the honey. Actually explains why there’s times when I eat honey and it’s amazing and then others where I basically just ate syrup.

I'm in somalia and the raw honey here is harvested from mountain bees and the flavor is the most unique honey I have ever tasted. It is extremely sweet and has a spicy profile that will burn your throat if you eat it in large quantities. Honestly it's the best honey I have ever had with that crystal red color it is delicious.

Okay, first of all, under no circumstances should you MICROWAVE raw honey. Not only do you kill a lot of the enzymes and stuff that are good for you but that superheating can do bad stuff to impurities in the honey causing them to pop or become way too hot compared to the honey (or glass) around it. I've never had a jar shatter or explode on me but I have had one jump and spray scalding honey all over my microwave. If you need to melt your honey take the jar and place it in a pot of water. Bring that water to just under a boil and wait. It takes longer but its safer. Edit: You CAN microwave pasteurized honey but it's still not recommended for the same reasons as above. It's significantly safer though. Additionally if your honey is in a plastic container and has turned to crystal, wait for it to harden completely and then slice open the container with a sharp, sterile knife or kitchen scissors. Put it in a glass or ceramic container or bowl and melt over the stove. "white" or "cloudy" honey is significantly more expensive but there was also a lot less work put into it. You're paying more money for the people who make it to do less work since they don't have to filter out the fine pollen. There are no significant health benefits to pollen so only buy it if you prefer the taste since in all other ways its exactly like standard raw honey. Edit: I forgot to include cloudy honey may also have some wax in it. The wax is safe to eat but that means they didn't even bother removing the honey from the wax. Again, unless you're specifically fond of the taste just get normal honey. You get more volume for less money. Additionally pasteurized honey does not have a longer shelf life than raw honey. As long as you don't introduce sugar eating bacteria or fungi honey stays good basically forever. Raw honey will crystalize faster due to impurities but if that happens see my above instructions for melting it.

If you buy your honey from a local beekeeper you're most likely guaranteed to get nothing but pure, raw honey. You're going to pay a premium for it up to $1.50 an ounce in some areas, but you're getting what you pay for. The alternative is store bought which sometimes has been altered with corn syrup, or comes from areas of concern when it comes to safe harvesting practices, and what may have been added to the honey before being bottled and labeled for sale.

I had raw honey as a kid. It builds your immune system

If your honey went bad it wasn't just honey. It probably had a bunch of additives to drive production costs down (like corn syrup), and those do go bad.

If you have a honey that goes bad, it means you were ripped off

All honey is strained to remove wax, bees, etc. Raw honey likely has more pollen and wax in it. Usually bees store pollen, honey, or nectar separately. They eat pollen and turn nectar into honey via fermentation. So the think light brown stuff probably has a bunch of pollen and some wax in the mix. "Natural" honey looks very similar to the standard honey you're used to.

If your hone has solidfied, put your honey jar in the dishwasher (not on sani wash) to liquefy. It won't overheat the honey the way the microwave does.

Fun fact: honey is a non-newtonian fluid and can be more or less runny depending on temp

My grandpa who is a beekeeper says that you shouldn't microwave/heat up honey since it destroy some of the natural flavor compounds found in raw honey.

"Heat can remove the enzymes, antioxidants, and flavor of your honey" "If your raw honey misbehaves, throw it in the microwave"

How can you extend shelf life pass forever? Honey never goes bad. Real honey, that is.

FYI~ the “honey” in those Little bears, is usually a very SMALL amount Honey mixed with Rice Syrup. If not, complexity rice syrup. It’s made in China 🇨🇳 And they don’t have to tell us. One of the best food choices we make is buying our honey and meats from locals farmers/ranchers. I know that’s not easy everywhere. It’s one of the benefits, of living in Montana.

Today's fact: honey is immortal.

My family has had bees for years and I’ve always helped on harvest day. Not once have I seen anything remotely close to that “raw” honey. The honey inside the capped comb is just like you would imagine, liquid golden honey. I’m thinking they are just melting the wax/comb with the honey and packaging it as something special when in reality it’s not at all. Zero bee honey looks like that “raw” stuff

I once read an by article about a blue honey. Apparently the bees were attracted to waste from a candy manufacturing plant and the blue dye that was used made it into the honey and turned it blue.

Well I've helped my neighbor who actually does own a few colonies as a small hobby. And it was very interesting, I've also helped him add a new queen to a new colony. Also, the bees are actually very tame, and the honey freshly harvested from the hive is absolutely delicious

i just realized I've never had pasteurized honey, my family always just called raw honey "honey"

Never heard about raw honey... In Sweden, that is what the ordinary honey looks like!! (As oppose to "liquid honey", that has only been around a couple of years...)

No confusion here, I only purchase the real Sourwood Honey with the comb inside. Pasteurized honey is usually from Clover and tastes good but different than Sourwood which has a richer flavor to it.

I used be part of a group that would set up and take care of beehives in community gardens, and schools. Each one of our hives honey had a distinct flavor because we sold it raw. It’s crazy how much the flavor can change, we had one hive in a little orchard that made super sweet fruity honey. Another was in a community garden that grew a lot of herbs vegetables it’s honey had wonderful sweet herbal and earthy flavor. One of the favorites of the community was the hives we had in point defiance park their honey had a minty flavor to it.

A beekeper once explained the difference to me, but he used the words lliving honey and dead honey. He basically said that living honey is much better for any form of raw consumption (like spreading on your bread), since it tastes better and is much healthier. But He recommended dead honey for everything that heats the honey, like cooking, honeywine making, putting it into tea etc.

If you get local, from small operators, they likely don’t have the equipment for pasteurization and thus are raw!

Dont use metal utensils for honey. Honey is very acidic, putting metal in it will alter the taste.

Its cristalised, and its normal for a honey. You can just mix it to break the cristals or dip it in warm water as well

In order to liquify the solid honey, I suggest a different approach. Put the jar of honey in a bowl or container filled with warm water, then wait until the honey is liquid. This will keep all of the honey at a same temperature, instead of heating it unevenly with a microwave. Plus, if you use the microwave, you are risking to boil some of the honey or even overheat, which is bad because the honey looses its natural nutritional benefits- or even worse it can caramelize... Oh and btw when if you but the honey in warm water, make sure it is just WARM because if it is boiling it can have the same effect as the microwave.

Extends its shelf life honey can't expire

I bought a gallon of raspberry blossom honey from kallas recently and it's the best honey I've ever had. It isn't 100% raw as they heat it slightly to make it flow through their machinery easier but it wasn't heated to the point of "pasteurization" either

Pretty sure using a wooden spoon or ladle helps keep from crystallizing jars of liquid honey as opposed to a metal one, I believe that makes a difference.

I do NOT use the microwave for anything. It's my understanding that microwaves destroy the nutrients within food. Thanks for this video. I've wondered about the differences.

I’d definitely use a warm water bath over a microwave for raw honey. And keep the water below boiling.

Best to make crystalized honey back to liquid is to put the jar is warm water and stir until the ideal consistency is reached.

Ive never seen "raw honey" that looks more like wax than actually honey. Ive harvested honey from wild bees and picking only the fresh combs and squeezing the honey out and it would look exactly like the "pasteurized honey" sometimes it even has a much darker colour, if the hive is found deep within a forest (specifically rainforest) it has a darker colour and the sweetest honey. Light amber coloured honey is usually found near villages. Also you can harvest almost all of the combs of honey if you found it in a tropical country, only leave the comb where the larvas are or where the queen is found. If in a place where there is winter only take 40-30% cause the bees need food during the winter.

Pasteurization extends its shelf life from Indefinitely to Indefinitely. Got it.

Raw honey, if extracted properly, will last thousands of years. They find perfectly edible honey occasionally in archaeological digs. Pasteurised honey does have a shelf life. If you are lucky, it will candy as it approaches the shelf life, which will stabilise it, meaning you can heat it up to liquify and immediately use. If your pasteurised honey starts to taste bitter, it’s past it, so leave it outside on a plate for honey bees, wasps, etc. you should never microwave honey, not just because of the risk of it exploding, but because the localised intense heat can destroy much of the nutritional value. Dissolve it in a water bath slowly.

Absolutely love the raw honey I get from some local beekeepers. Tastes absolutely different from anything else I get at the store.

I always preferred creamed honey over the liquid, non crystallized version because it somehow tastes better to me

As a commercial honey producer, I HIGHLY recommend to NEVER MICROWAVE HONEY. It kills all the good bacteria that is in that raw honey, if you microwave raw honey you might as well just buy liquid (pasteurized) honey. Just stick the container of hard raw honey into a pot of warm/hot water and it'll soften.

Do not eat honey off shelves if you dont trust it or know it. America has laws that permit companies to add a high volume of stuff that isn't honey into their honey bottles, and then label it as fully real honey.

Seems to be some confusion over how to soften the honey too! Boil some water, remove from heat, place jar in water. This will gently restore its liquid form without damaging any properties!

I've melted a Honey comb and drizzle it to my bread. I think I like honey with the wax on it, it got a nice texture to it

Iirc the reason we pasteurized our honey is because if the honey become solidify people will assume its not edible anymore so honey company need to pasteurized it

Bro violated that honey bear 😭💀💀

I only get my honey from the local bee man since it helps in the spring with allergies

Our honey in the Philippines is either you get it directly from the farmers, or corn syrup.

Raw is the way to go, and if available, go with locally sourced. I don't know why but it really helps if you have allergies to local pollins. And don't worry about "shelf life" I have had jars of raw honey last years. Im sure they would have lasted longer but I finished them. 😅

Raw honey: has literally been found edible in Egyptian tombs that are thousands of years old This absolute unit: *EXTENDS THE SHELF LIFE*

Saying that honey has an expiration date means that it is an imitation with something else added to the person's honey. In other words, if you ask and find out where the person bought the honey, you don't have to buy it there. Great tip!

It was fantastic when my grandpa had a small hive on Long Island. Unfortunately when my grandparents moved to FL they were too aggressive for him there so he had to abandon his hobby/small business.