Crush & Strain supplies?

[Claudia Looze]

Anyone have a crush & strain set-up for sale? Looking for 5-gal food grade buckets and strainers. Would buy from Dadant but closed on weekends and I work full-time. It's my first year and I won't have much to harvest.

[jeanne hansen]

Since you don't have much to harvest, you probably don't need to buy a big crush and strain kit.  Use your largest kettle or roaster.  Lay sticks or other contrivance across the top to hold a colander/spaghetti strainer/deep fry basket.  Line the strainer with a square of old nylon curtain.  If your strainer material is finer than this, the honey drips too slowly.  Cut squares of comb from your frames, drop them into the basket, and chop them apart; I use a paring knife.

When all the honey has stopped dripping, set a new bowl under the strainer full of capping and melt them in a 200 degree oven to recover the last pound of honey, and the nicely strained cake of wax.

 

Good Luck!

Jeanne Hansen

824 Jacobson Ave

Madison, WI 53714

608-244-5094

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From: Claudia Looze <claudi...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 9:29 AM
Subject: [madbees] Crush & Strain supplies?

Anyone have a crush & strain set-up for sale? Looking for 5-gal food grade buckets and strainers. Would buy from Dadant but closed on weekends and I work full-time. It's my first year and I won't have much to harvest.

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[sbjoh...@aol.com]

I was frustrated by the slowness of filtering using nylon.  I then tried a kitchen strainer that is lined with enameled window screen material - the mesh is fine enough to catch most of the debris and the honey drips pretty fast.    Not perfect, but good enough. 

I crush the comb in the 1-gal ziplocks bags that I used to carry the comb pieces home.  Dump the resulting mess into the strainer over a mixing bowl.  Empty the bowl periodically into small canning jars.

Steve

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[Paul Zelenski]

There are also large mesh strainer bags designed for straining out the grain for brewing. You can pick these up at homebrew shops. They should work great.

Another tip to making the honey flow faster. Get it warm. Set it in the sun or a room heated by the sun for awhile first. It makes it flow much better.

[Jason Cleereman]

A painting supply store will sell plastic and wire screeners to separate latex paint coagulations from the usable paint.  The screens work well for filtering honey too.

[iND]

If you only have a few frames of honey, try two jars with a piece of cheesecloth between them.  Imagine an hourglass; one of the jars will be upside-down with all the honey and wax in it, and it will drain into the other jar below it.  Use duct tape to make sure they stay together.  If the honey gets below 70F, it will take days.  Keep it at 80F - 90F and it will only take an hour or two. 

Pictures of my setup:

https://bees20130611.shutterfly.com/102

(Not a lot of wax in this one, so it went really quick.)

[Marty VanHaren]

I used the paint strainer from Mautz on Odana Rd. they have one that is like a bowl an fits on top of a five gallon pail. I also tried the bad style mess strainers they have, cheap, they also are made to ft a five gallon bucket but would work just as well in/over a large stock pot. They rinse easily but fought they would do well with heated wav and honey like the low oven method.

[Mary Mac]

Menards sells 5 gallons white food safe buckets for about $4.00-cover extra 1.50. But if you would like to pay more for similar, you can go to any wine supply store and pay $15.00 -it will have a flow valve on the bottom (menards doesn't). There is one on Monroe street (brew and hop?) and on off Femrite drive(brew and Go).

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Claudia Looze <claudi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone have a crush & strain set-up for sale? Looking for 5-gal food grade buckets and strainers. Would buy from Dadant but closed on weekends and I work full-time. It's my first year and I won't have much to harvest.

[Paul Zelenski]

Wine and Hop Shop on Monroe and Brew and Grow on the East side  ;)

Does Menards have officially food safe buckets? I've used them before without trouble, but I wasn't sure if they were designated as "food safe".

[Mary Mac]

Menards sells food safe (white buckets) and non-food safe (green buckets).

[jeanne hansen]

Brew and Grow is on the East Side of Madison now, in their new location on Williamson St, right by the Yahara River.  They have good stuff.  Someone should offer them local honey, since what they sell comes from Illinois.

 

Thanks!

Jeanne Hansen

824 Jacobson Ave

Madison, WI 53714

608-244-5094

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Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:31 PM

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[Gourlie, Michael]

Please also consider checking with Rich at Capitol Bee Supply for these supplies.  His prices are very reasonable and he has been a terrific friend and advisor to DCBA.  

mike gourlie

5102 open wood way

madison, wi  53714-3455

h - (608) 221-4900

m - (608) 556-2012

email:  mic...@gourlie.com

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