Honey

[PeteXXX]

No, not 'I shrunk the kids'!

How come 'set' honey goes clear when it gets warm, but then, if put in the fridge to cool it down, it doesn't revert to being 'set' but stays clear?

?

 

[screenman]

It is clever and likes to confuse people, certainly does me.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'd go as far as to say that it's a conundrum!!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Why would you put honey in a fridge? (Well apart from stopping it from clouding, of course.) Honey doesn't need a fridge and if it clouds, stick the jar in a pan full of hot water.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Supersaturated solution

 

[Welsh wheels]

I don't think that's any of your beeswax really

 

[PeteXXX]

Why would you put honey in a fridge? (Well apart from stopping it from clouding, of course.) Honey doesn't need a fridge and if it clouds, stick the jar in a pan full of hot water.

So it's colder, and more viscous, when I spread it on some crusty bread, that's why..

 

[screenman]

I don't think that's any of your beeswax really

What has Dyson hot to do with it?

 

[biggs682]

And why the nearer to being empty does it go harder?

You watch some clever B will come over and answer all the questions.

 

[lazybloke]

crystals?

 

[AndyRM]

crystals?

 

[accountantpete]

It's a deep, dark secret

 

[jefmcg]

crystals?

Yes. Set honey is crystalised. Crystals grow around other crystals (or impurities). If you warm the honey, you destroy all of the crystals. It may crystalize again, but so may normal unset honey.