Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with honey

A delicious way to die

typography — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:29:40 -0800

Would you drown in a pool filled with honey? More generally, which liquids are swimmable and which would lead you to your doom?

Oh honey, honey, sugar sugar ..

Talia Devane — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:29:23 -0800

I have a quantity of local raw honey that is crystallizing. I know I can boil the mason jars to send the sugar back into solution, but how do I handle the plastic honey bear? I don't want to lose any of that sweet goodness.

Anybody know where I can buy a bottle of mead in NYC?

Afroblanco — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:28:35 -0800

Anybody know where I can buy a bottle of mead in NYC?

Candy coated diamonds?

ailouros08 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:18:53 -0800

Honey M&M-type candies? Does this sound familiar to you? My girlfriend is trying to find a candy she tried several years ago. It was given to her by an acquaintance from Colorado. According to her (my gf), the candy was similar to m&ms, but the filling was honey or honey-flavored instead of chocolate. If it helps, it seems it was packaged similarly to m&ms as well, so the candies were not individually-wrapped or anything. Honey-filled candy that it's NOT (which is all I can seem to find) - (1) Honees, (2) Hard candy lozenges filled with honey, (3) Bit-o-Honey, (4) M&Ms. I can't seem to find anything remotely similar after hours of searching the internets. I've even combed through several candy-oriented blogs (who knew??). My only hope is that someone here has eaten this candy before and knows what it's called. So, fellow candy-eatin' MeFites, help me track down this candy!

What to do with bad tasting honey

singingfish — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:46:24 -0800

I bought 5kg of very cheap honey at a market. Unfortunately it tastes off - it has a strong smokey flavour which makes it unpleasent to eat. I'm wondering what useful stuff I could do with it instead of eating it? Also, is that smokey flavour likely to be harmful? (I'm In Australia where bushfires are common, so that might explain the smokey flavour).

Avoiding sugar/honey residue in tea cups

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:35:32 -0800

Whenever I drink tea, I'm always left with a sticky sugar/honey residue in the bottom of the cup. Is there any way to avoid this?

"And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it."

spinturtle — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:50:41 -0800

What can I do with excessive amounts of honey? At the end of the CSA season, we bought a half-gallon of local honey to get us through the winter. It seems we highly overestimated how much we would use, as we still have most of it left. I've searched the EatMe topics regarding bulk/individual ingredients but alas, honey isn't on there. I've made this scrumptious honey whole wheat bread , but it only uses 1/2 cup to make 4 big loaves, which hardly makes a dent. Obviously I don't expect to be able to use it all in one shot, but a variety of recipes would be greatly appreciated. So tell me, MeFis, what can we make with all this honey???

will honey keep theraflu from tasting like old hippie smell?

lia — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:18:51 -0800

theraflu's natural apple cinnamon flavor tastes like licking the window of a hippie candle store. will it lose efficacy if i add a dollop of honey to my next mug of the stuff?

Is raw honey from a beehive safe to eat?

afx114 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:36:10 -0800

Can I eat raw honey from a fallen beehive? A beehive fell out of a palm tree in front of my apartment today. There are no more bees, except for a few caucuses laying around. The honeycomb is quite heavy and soaked with honey, but it's black and tar-like. Is it edible? If so, what's the best way of extracting the honey from the comb?

A banana would have made it perfect

cilantro — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:08:23 -0800

I just ate a peanut butter and honey sandwich on soft white bread. The bread on the honey side developed a kind of rough texture, almost like the bread had been lightly toasted on one side. Not unpleasant, but kind of odd. I noticed this when I was a kid and I've always wondered about it, and just now realized that someone here might know what's going on (I grew up in the South, and I have been known to eat molasses and butter sandwiches - the rough-texture thing doesn't happen with molasses, only honey. I don't know about other sugary syrup products).

Will bee puke help my runny nose?

xetere — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:39:00 -0800

Does local honey really help with hayfever? Or is it an urban legend? My allergies are acting up again, and even drugs are useless against the onslaught of snot and watery eyes. My girlfriend and others have suggested local honey. A couple of Ask MetaFilter threads also tout local honey.

But since bees visit flowers where they get big fat otherwise immobile pollen and allergies are caused by wind-born pollen, how can this possibly work? I mean maybe I'm allergic to clover or apple pollen, but I wouldn't know that unless I go up to said flower and snort. But it is the birch or ragweed that most people are allergic to - since it is wind pollinated how will that show up in the local honey at all?
Seems to be a logical/botanical disconnect that I can't wrap my head around.

As I happen to loathe honey to the point of gagging, I really don't want to chow down on bee vomit unless I know it will work - and it seems that logically it shouldn't.

Google turns up sites stating that it is good, but none on *how* it can possible be good.

So if there are any allergists or botanists around, is there legitimate scientific evidence of local honey easing allergies or is it placebo effect?

Corn syrup vs honey

cardboard — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:51:12 -0800

I'm going to ice a cake and the icing recipe calls for 1 tsp (5 mL) light corn syrup. Can I use honey instead? I've done my reading and found out that corn syrup is used to decrease the stiffness of the icing and reduce cracking. I don't have corn syrup and would rather not buy a 500mL bottle to use 1 tsp. Why wouldn't honey (of which I have gobs) work?

Clean the Carpet, Honey!

ubersturm — Wed, 12 May 2004 00:56:03 -0800

large broken bottle of honey + carpet = much sticky unhappiness. any suggestions on how i can get the carpet cleansed before the ants arrive?