I just bottled my first honey in containers I purchased online. They are Jars in 4oz, 6oz and plastic 12oz. However, I just weighed a full 12oz of Honey, and with taring for the bottle, it came out to one pound. So did the next. I'm no math wiz, but 12oz does not equal 16oz.. Neither does 4=5+ or 6=8.
This wouldn't be burning so much if I hadn't just finished labeling all of them!!!
For my future reference is there some scale to use when packaging honey for actual weight, or are you supposed to use the weight (I guess by volume) of the container?
Soooooo Confused . . . . . . .
:roll: Duh. :roll:
Apparently the oz on the bottle is a measure of "volume" not weight . . .
Honey weighs more than water . . .
Of this particular Honey Batch . . .
12 oz volume = 17.99 oz wt.
6 oz volume = 8oz wt. (chunk comb in this to, just to throw it off)
4 oz volume= 5 and change wt. (more chunck comb)
Now I feel just silly ;)
I'll fix the labels next time . . . everythings a learning experience when you is ign'ant.
Are you look at volume .oz or weight .oz on the bottle ???
BEE HAPPY Jim 134
that all makes sense...these are not honey jars. a 1lb honey jar is calibrated to hold one lb of honey.
1 gallon of water weighs 8lbs....1 gallon of honey weighs 12 lbs...so for a given volume, multiply the weight of water by 1.5 to find the weight of honey.
a container that holds 12oz of water will hold 18oz of honey...exactly what you measured.
but honey is sold by weight, not volume.
deknow