Obviously, uncapped honey/nectar is not ripe, correct? I have some comb from a cutout with tons of capped honey, but also quite a bit uncapped. Should I crush it as well? We use honey quickly, and could give a bit away to family. It would not sit around, but I am worried about fermentation. Any reason not to eat it, other than the higher moisture content?
I crushed some of it out with the rest of the honey and it tastes great.... If nothing else, I could cut out the uncapped areas and sit the comb out for the bees to take care of.
Keep it refrigerated and it won't ferment.
Use a refractometer and if the water content is less than 18.6%, then it won't ferment anywhere.
Did you try and shake it out? I had some last year that when I tried to shake it out it didn't come out and was good to go. In fact I still have one last jar and it is quite tasty.
I shake the comb (like vermmy) over a deep bake sheet. Anything that drops goes to the bees...anything that doesn't I keep.
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my advice is : don' t take uncapped honey!
It is rippen whe n it is capped..
Tons of capped honey ---- sounds like professional .... And you want uncapped honey?
I got to agree. I just feed the honey back to the cut out in a top feeder without a screen. They clean it up pretty quickly. However, I do freeze it and wait for the queen to fill up frames with brood before giving it back to them. It helps keep them from getting honey bound.
Personally, I only give honey back to the hive that I got it from.
I don't know if this is sidetracked, but I feed back honey or whatever is left over. I have many supers that have uncapped, capped etc, that was from my deadouts, lids off bees are having a field day. :)
As far as using it , I prefer not to use unripe honey. Just me tho from the other posts, but I prefer my honey to be capped for safety. LOL
If it is mostly uncapped and you can shake it out, give that frame back to the bees to finish or, freeze it and keep it until late winter for feed.
I'd put the uncapped out for the bees. They will clean things up.