Many know about health giving qualities of honey. This tasty natural medicine just "gold reserves" of useful substances and minerals. Besides honey is capable not to lose the properties for a long time, the main thing is to store this product correctly.
How many honey can be stored
That surprisingly honey has no expiration date. It is confirmed by scientists who in one of archaeological expeditions found an ancient vessel with honey. In spite of the fact that the product was more than hundred years old, it kept all the qualities and was suitable in food.
Over time honey can change a form and from liquid state to pass into firm, i.e. it will become candied. However it doesn't worsen its miracle properties in any way.
The main "secret of longevity" of this product are the correct storage conditions.
We store honey correctly
Comfort temperature of storage of honey – from 6 to 15 wasps. It is better to remove a product to the dark and dry place where there are no direct sunshine. You shouldn't put near honey things and products with a strong smell.
The maximum allowed storage temperature of honey is +40os. At higher rates chemical reactions which lead to damage of a product begin.
Standard 20-30 degrees above zero don't spoil honey, but considerably reduce the term of its storage.
Well the storeroom, the basement or a dry cellar are suitable for preservation of honey.
More difficult the situation with storage of this sweet in the ordinary city apartment is.
First of all exclude kitchen as the room for storage of honey. Here too hot it is also damp, at a product the taste can worsen.
In old apartments there are storerooms which can "shelter" your honey stocks.
If there is no storeroom, the fridge will be the great place for storage of honey. Here to it neither temperature differences, nor humidity, nor sunshine are terrible. Put honey on the lower shelves (as it is possible further from the freezer).
If to tell about a balcony, then it not the best place for storage of honey. Even it will long not stand on the glazed and warmed balconies.
Having stayed on well lit balcony several hot weeks, curative honey will turn into useless sweet weight. Harm from it won't be, but also advantage too.
In the summer on the balcony too hot, and in the winter quite cold. And in off-season the humidity level sharply increases that has also an adverse effect on quality of a product.
What it is better to store honey in
That honey remained as long as possible without prejudice to its gustatory and curative qualities it is important to choose correctly a container "for a wintering".
Simple plastic containers with a dense cover quite will be suitable for short-term storage within 2-3 months.
For long storage choose a glass, ceramic or wooden container from a linden, a beech or a birch. Good option – tanks from stainless steel, but steel has to be of very high quality.
But the best container for long storage of honey tinted glass is considered. Track that the cover was densely closed, it is important.
It is forbidden to keep honey in a copper, aluminum and galvanized container. Too it is better not to use kegs from the wood saturated with essential oils.
Before filling the container needs to be cleaned baking soda, to wash up and to dry well.
There are fans to store honey in its original state – in cells. It is a difficult task, the frame needs to be wrapped up in food wrap, and from above - dark fabric and to watch that the moth didn't choose your stocks. A great way is to separate honey cells from a frame and to put them in glasswares.