Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle honey?

By: HuntingWabbits

HuntingWabbits — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:38:44 +0000

It’s got so much natural sugar that bacteria can’t even survive in it. Certainly makes an effective fly trap if you smear it on a piece of stiff paper.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:19:00 +0000

Did you know that is takes a bee it’s whole lifetime of working really really hard to make a teaspoon of honey?
(So, it’s probably a bit too special to compost)

Anyway, it should be fine in a high temperature recipes. Use with herbs and onions, in bread (great with sunflower seeds) , drizzle over meat or quorn as a glaze, put it in cakes or biscuits.

If you don’t want to eat it use it in homemade cosmetics for its healing powers – you could probably drizzle some into a hot bath or make a face mask or lip balm.

You could rub some into very mild grazes or burns.

I shouldn’t be too worried about residue left by a dead insect. Honey is made by insects.

By: anna

anna — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:05:29 +0000

Just remove the fly, a bit of honey around it, and eat the rest of it. Honey doesn’t like bacteria or other nasty bits growing in it, so one fly does no harm to it. They found the honey which was in the pyramids left for the pharaohs afterlife in the Egypt of thousands of years ago be still edible (dry but still edible).
Or bake with it. Or make mead.
Or if you really really don’t want to eat it then use it for cosmetics. A warm honey mask feels great and nourishes the face, or you could add a bit of honey to olive oil and mix it as a luxury hair balsam (mix before use, let it stay 20 minutes or so in hair to get absorbed, rinse and done).
Honey is way too precious to compost! Use it and enjoy it.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:59:22 +0000

Only one fly in it? I’m afraid I’d probably just scoop the fly out and eat the rest of the pot. If you’re fussy though…

I guess it’d be ok in anything that gets cooked thoroughly, like cakes and biscuits?