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Old 08-18-2019, 08:29 AM   #470
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Default Re: New Hobby: Bee Keeping

What passes through the cheese cloth is the wax and the honey that remained stuck to it.

Looks like a dirty mess at first



But as the liquid cools, the heavier honey & any impurities sink to the bottom, while the wax rises to the top and solidifies.



Cutting away the container, and rinsing the residual honey on the bottom of the solidified wax, I'm left with this:



Going to add that to my stash of beeswax from last year, and with the remaining wax I still have left to render, we might be able to get a couple beeswax candles out of it.

Interesting tid-bit I found while researching the various wax rendering methods: the wax cappings I started with are only about 13% actual wax. The rest is the honey and other impurities which is why starting with so much wax is needed to yield any decent amount of pure wax.
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