Honey Pots

[Dominic]

Why is it, that I can open a new pot of honey, use it, then close it tightly. A week later the honey pot will be hard to move as there is now a ring of honey at the outer base of the jar?

The same is true of Soy Sauce.

[cyprusmax47]

Why is it, that I can open a new pot of honey, use it, then close it tightly. A week later the honey pot will be hard to move as there is now a ring of honey at the outer base of the jar?

The same is true of Soy Sauce.

Happened to me also the last 2 month, when inside the kitchen cupboard the temperature is very high and the honey obviously expands. The one kilo container with local honey from Marathounda is full to nearly the top anyhow. It never happens in colder temperatures. I use a lot of honey instead of sugar and use up 2 kilo per month ca. so I know it from own experience. Now when I buy fresh honey from the shop I always empty some of it in a fresh container....
Max

[Dominic]

I'm guessing it would be rather hard though. I know the honey we used to get from the local bee keeper back in the UK was quite runny. It wasn't really very nice, and a jar I bought sat in the cupboard for months after I originally opened it. I tried it again, and in the interim it had got a lot firmer, and was full of crystals. It was much nicer then, so the experiment didn't last much longer.

[PaphosAL]

I always brought back a large jar of local honey from Paphos (Tremithousa produced, if I remember correctly) for my dear Wife. She absolutely adored it... Never lasted long enough to start adhering to the glass shelf in the fridge, LOL!

Also used to always bring back a large vacuum-pack of Lountza, which she used for a kind of Hungarian-style 'eggs and bacon' style brunch, in a frying pan. Delicious with fresh baked buttered baguettes, yum yum! I have a 1kg pack in the freezer that my friends Chris and Sue kindly treated me to on their recent hols to the eastern end of the island. Daughter loves Lountza too, so we're looking very forward to that dish in the near future!

Funnily enough, the Polish delicatessens that have opened in the Luton area in recent years (and doing roaring trade) do their version of Lountza, but simply called Smoked Pork Loin. Very good value, too! Around £7/kg (less than half of what Tesco would charge IF they stocked it!) I can't honestly detect any taste nor quality difference between the Polish and Cypriot varieties tbh. (But both are superior to what's available in Hungary...)

Agreed, Dom, a glass bottle of Soy Sauce does seem to 'leak' and stick, even though you've carefully wiped the shelf it's stored on in the fridge, and the outside surfaces of the bottle itself! Weird, or what?

Cheers- AL

[Kili01]

It must be due to the high summer air temps, plus the high humidity. Though I find that my 1kg jar of honey became very runny in summer -while in winter when the house temperatures had dropped the honey became much thicker. As I prefer honey to be quite thick I solved the problem by keeping the honey jar in the fridge in summer!

Dee

[PaphosAL]

Good point, Dee! Let's all remember to buy a cheap (but good quality) fridge thermometer to hang middle rear and monitor that it's reading the recommended 0-5C range.

If it reads too cold next day, just turn the thermostat down a tad, from 3 to say 2
If it reads too warm, turn the thermostat up from 2 to 3 (for example)
I know this sounds arse about face, but it's true, trust me!

Cheers- AL

[cyprusmax47]

Good point, Dee! Let's all remember to buy a cheap (but good quality) fridge thermometer to hang middle rear and monitor that it's reading the recommended 0-5C range.

If it reads too cold next day, just turn the thermostat down a tad, from 3 to say 2
If it reads too warm, turn the thermostat up from 2 to 3 (for example)
I know this sounds arse about face, but it's true, trust me!

Cheers- AL

There is a very nice one, sometimes available at Lidl. http://www.smartpound.com/story.php?tit ... £3-49-lidl
I am using about 10 of them in my household to control the temperatures in all rooms and areas. Of course also in the fridge/freezer and freezer chest.
As I also installed 2 Solar Air-Heating Systems they are in use there...

Max

[cyprusmax47]

In 10 years we've never once changed the settings on the fridge/freezer in the kitchen or the additional upright freezer in the garage. I keep saying to my wife that this is crazy and we must be wasting electricity. My excuse would be that we don't know what to do to achieve optimum performance. A good start would be to buy some thermometers as cyprusmax47 suggests, once they again become available in Lidl. I guess they're not affected by freezing temperatures? Then I'll find the post Max made on one of these threads for optimising bit by bit.

PS: Ah, wife now tells me she does make changes from time-to-time, but not on any technical/scientific basis.

Measuring range is from -40C to +70C - further there is frost alarm between 2.5C and zero C as the main sales point for this thermometers is for cars, to warn from icy conditions. (of course older cars)
Max

[trevnhil]

Our Electrolux tall fridge we bought in 2006 has a temperature readout on the outside of the fridge