/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4217758]

Sup /ck/ is there a best type of honey? Or is all about personal preference?

I usually buy the "normal" stuff from my store but I was wondering if I should branch out into new stuff, to atleast try them out?

Do you have a personal honey?

[Anonymous No.4217766]

It's all the same to me, whether it is spruce honey, birch honey or flower honey. Honey from trees has a slightly "heavier" feel imo.

[Anonymous No.4217767]

I like sourwood honey and acacian honey (pic related)

[Anonymous No.4217772]

>>4217766
>It's all the same to me
...You can't be serious. Honey has a wide range of flavors and consistencies and it should be easily to taste it.

Here's a brand I found at my grocery store that I find quite nice. Not too mild and has a nice mouth feel.

http://www.kelleyhoney.com/productphp

[Anonymous No.4217775]

>>4217758
You'll never manage to taste every type of honey, but it's good to branch out a little. They're obviously all very sweet but depending on the plant they were made from they can taste COMPLETELY different.
I really like orange blossom honey. Manuka is nice in small doses.

[Anonymous No.4217832]

i think i remember us having something called fireweed honey? made by a local beekeeper on our property, west coast Canada. Best honey i can remember ever tasting in my life

[Anonymous No.4217868]

i get my honey from the beekeeper in my neighborhood.
i usually get the creamed honey, bc that's my favorite.
pic related

[Anonymous No.4217878]

Holy shit man, store bought honey!?!
You're basically just chugging chemicals and corn syrup!

Find a farmer's market and get some nice, local honey. Be sure to check it before you eat it. That stuff has no preservatives at all and keeps forever regardless, so long as you keep it away from ants. Its great stuff, good for skin problems too.

Local honey also helps if you have allergies. It gets your system accustomed to the pollen in your area.

Trust me, I keep bees out back.

[Anonymous No.4218022]

>>4217832
Fireweed honey is fucking great. Also I lived in the Okanagan for a while and got to try what the producer called 'orchard honey' (I believe it was apple blossom / cherry blossom) and that was amazing as well, but it was really damn expensive.

>>4217878
>You're basically just chugging chemicals and corn syrup!
Pretty much. Generally store-bought honey is incredibly bad.

[Anonymous No.4218856]

>>4217878
I get the store bought kind that isn't chemicals and corn syrup. But I definitely should start buying it from my farmers market.

>>4218022
Is fireweed a thing I could buy where?

[Anonymous No.4218865]

Leatherwood honey is delicious but only comes from Tasmania in Australia.
I've had Blue Gum honey from there thats really nice too. And of course manuka from New Zealand.

[Anonymous No.4218869]

Buckwheat honey is very dark. It looks and tastes a bit like molasses.

[Anonymous No.4219056]

I enjoy sage honey. It has a much milder taste to it than generic honey.

[Anonymous No.4219365]

>>4218856
What kind of honey you can get depends on where you are, because it's based on what plants the bees are collecting nectar from. I'd just find a few different kinds of honey from your area, try them, and find out what kind you prefer.

[Anonymous No.4219375]

>>4218856
Oh and you'll be able to pick out fireweed honey pretty quickly if you see it, it tends to be a really neat pink/purplish color.

[Anonymous No.4219817]

Manuka.

It cures cancer with it's beautiful taste.

[Chef Boyardi No.4219821]

I love using Blueberry Honey as a spread, but melting down a honey comb and using that for recipes is definitely what I would recommend doing.

[Anonymous No.4219833]

My neighbor owns a bunch of bee hives, and sells his honey at our local supermarket. It's legit, pure, raw honey.

Feels good to live in a rural community.

[Anonymous No.4220546]

Lavender honey or raspberry honey are sweet and subtle; fir honey or chestnut tree honey are a lot stronger and have a nice bitterness to them.

There's a shop in my town that sells nothing but honey and honey-based products; you can just go there and try samples before you buy… I just wanted to get just one pot, but I ended buying three different ones since they all tasted great and very different from each other.

You can also get some from local markets.

[Anonymous No.4220580]

>store bought honey is corn syrup

All you have to do is look at the ingredients and see that it says honey, and not corn syrup. That's like, really easy to do.

[Anonymous No.4220603]

I just try to buy local honey whenever possible. I like to support local honey farmers and consuming locally sourced honey can help to build your immunity to local allergens. It's usually some kind of wildflower honey around here.

[Anonymous No.4220613]

>>4220580
Most store/cheap brands of honey are imported from over seas (typically China) and are just flavored corn syrup.

[Anonymous No.4220621]

>>4220580

You apparently don't know the "trick" then.

Some irresponsible bee keepers will put pots of corn syrup or plain sugar water near the hive. The bees learn that they can eat that easier than they can go forage from flowers. The bees still make "honey", but instead of it coming from naturally occuring nectar in flowers (normal honey), instead it's just the corn syrup from a bowl next to the hive. This way they can still label it "honey" but it's not the same as traditional honey where the bees get the nectar from flowers instead.

[Anonymous No.4220632]

>>4220621
I am really fucking starting to hate humanity.

[Anonymous No.4220647]

Try to find someone who makes honey, doesn't matter where you live or what flowers you got in the area. Go visit in autumn when the bees make honey, have a little teaspoon of the pure, unadulterated stuff. The taste is truly mindblowing (though way too strong to eat just like that). Even with shitty flowers like the ones we got here it was one of the best things I've ever tasted, kept lingering for 10-15 minutes in my mouth.

I quite like thyme, sage, lavender. Or I just buy some from my friend.

[Anonymous No.4220654]

>>4217868
Oh wow. Is it possible to make cream honey oneself, or does it require professional equipment?

[Anonymous No.4220656]

>>4220621
I didn't know that. Interesting.

[Anonymous No.4220665]

>>4220621
Source?

[Anonymous No.4220675]

Bought a 2 lb jar of Michigan honey last week for... $10.00

[Anonymous No.4220709]

i use wildflower honey from the farmers market

[Woombat No.4220718]

>>4220665
>>4220665
Lol? The source is that capitalism favors cheap production.

[Anonymous No.4220725]

>>4220718
Don't laugh at him. It's pretty reasonable for him to want proof that this happens. He's not saying it's not possible, but there's plenty of things you could make up that "sound" right. You're an asshat.

[Anonymous No.4220728]

>>4220725
Right. "Because that's the way it is" isn't proof of anything. You have a distorted world view my friend.

[Anonymous No.4220729]

>>4220728
It's... not, though? That's like your mom saying "Because I said so."

[Anonymous No.4220736]

>>4220729
I don't know who you're arguing with.

[Anonymous No.4220824]

try clover honey its very sweet

[Anonymous No.4220988]

Hey man, vomit is vomit. There is no good vomit or bad vomit.

[Anonymous No.4221000]

It doesn't really matter what kind of honey you use just to eat, it'll all taste the same. Honey used for mead on the other hand should be really specific (no alfalfa/clover/wildflower unless you're making a savory metheglin)

[Arty [sugar tits] !!eKEqL/VOHjj No.4221558]

Meadowfoam.

I have a gallon jar at my house. I also have a gallon of Buckwheat for baking. I have a few small jars of other varieties too.

http://www.beefolks.com/

I get my honey from there. I purchase it in person when they put up shop at the local Renn Faire.