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Warming mat - A strange question...

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You could decant your kilo jar into smaller ones and just keep one of those warm enough to stop crystallisation.  Can you not get UK pine honey?  They also have it in France in pine forests near Le Mans.   Maybe better suited to UK temperatures.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • Wow that's a big jar of honey, are you sure you're not secretly Winnie the Poo? You can buy really small heat mats for reptiles. Try the pro-rep brand. They say to always use them with a thermostat but I assume that's to stop them cooking your pet. The smallest ones only take about 2W but I've no idea how warm that would get a big jar of honey though.

    I've got a shelf in my lizard's vivarium for keeping things warm (not food though). It's a nice constant mid 20s in there. Sometimes it's good for getting plants or cuttings growing.
    Winnie the Pooh has nothing on me. He only has 1 jar. I get 18 :D

    Obelixx said:
    You could decant your kilo jar into smaller ones and just keep one of those warm enough to stop crystallisation.  Can you not get UK pine honey?  They also have it in France in pine forests near Le Mans.   Maybe better suited to UK temperatures.
    Considering I buy 18 jars at a time it would be a total pain. I didnt know that UK pine honey existed. Havent come accross any shops on the internet that sell it raw.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I read somewhere that an average bee makes 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in it's lifetime. 18kgs would take a whole lot of bees to make  :o
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I don't know that you can get it.  Just thought it was worth googling.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • I read somewhere that an average bee makes 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in it's lifetime. 18kgs would take a whole lot of bees to make  :o
    And yet it takes so little time to consume it. When you consider that each of my three kids has a flat tablespoon of honey in their porridge every morning .... :#

    Obelixx said:
    I don't know that you can get it.  Just thought it was worth googling.
    Ah I see. I have searched but it is not easy to find. only a few websites that sell raw honey in the UK.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    greenlove said:
    Wow that's a big jar of honey, are you sure you're not secretly Winnie the Poo? You can buy really small heat mats for reptiles. Try the pro-rep brand. They say to always use them with a thermostat but I assume that's to stop them cooking your pet. The smallest ones only take about 2W but I've no idea how warm that would get a big jar of honey though.

    I've got a shelf in my lizard's vivarium for keeping things warm (not food though). It's a nice constant mid 20s in there. Sometimes it's good for getting plants or cuttings growing.
    Winnie the Pooh has nothing on me. He only has 1 jar. I get 18 :D

    Obelixx said:
    You could decant your kilo jar into smaller ones and just keep one of those warm enough to stop crystallisation.  Can you not get UK pine honey?  They also have it in France in pine forests near Le Mans.   Maybe better suited to UK temperatures.
    Considering I buy 18 jars at a time it would be a total pain. I didnt know that UK pine honey existed. Havent come accross any shops on the internet that sell it raw.

    Perhaps decant some into one smaller jar for a few days'/weeks' worth and refill it from the big jar when it gets empty.  That way less of it would need warming up each time.
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