Honey Extraction

Jordi & I visited our local agricultural center this past Saturday where we got to watch how they extract honey from bee hives.


Here are some of the bee hives. Each hive has it's own Queen Bee and up to a million worker bees.



Mr. Honey Man, has been doing this for 40 years. That's why he's not wearing any gear. Dont' try this at home.


Look at all of those bees !!!


After they get the bees off the honey combs, they bring them here to extract the honey.


Honey Combs sans bees.




Jordan got to use the hot knife to "de-cap" the combs. The hot knife melts the top layer of the honey where the bees plugged it with wax.


Once the honey combs are de-capped, they are placed in a centrifuge.



Where you crank......


and crank......


and crank ....


out the honey !!!!! YUM !!!


Not surprisingly, Jordi said it tasted like honey.
(I so wanted to ask if she thought it was going to taste like chicken? ..... but I didn't ;-)