Delectable dessertsĪ chunk of honeycomb on top of the following is better than the icing on the cake: Try honeycomb spread on a thick slice of sourdough bread with butter - a beautifully simple comfort food. If you're really lucky, you might get a bit of 'bee bread', which is mostly made up of fermented pollen and is used to feed the brood. Go slowly and really savour the experience. If you don't want to eat the wax, just chew until the honey's all gone then spit the wax out.
Just cut off a chunk and chew! The beeswax is safe to eat (but indigestible, so don't overdo it or you might end up with a stomach ache). So, if you're curious about honeycomb, but don't really know where to start, here are some ideas: Eat it straight up It's an incredible ingredient, especially when you start to delve a little deeper into the subtleties of the different kinds (a post for another day). Well, I'm here to tell you that honeycomb use is only limited by your imagination. Here, in Australia, honeycomb is usually more expensive than liquid honey too, and for some it just doesn't seem worth it. It doesn't get much better than standing over a hive on a clear spring day, munching on a piece of honeycomb cleaned off the top of a frame (you just have to be careful you don't accidentally eat a bee.) What to do with honeycomb?Ī lot of people, especially those who are accustomed to eating liquid honey, aren't sure what to do with honeycomb. When you've seen the bustling activity inside a healthy hive, though, and watched the bees at work, you understand the true value of honey.Īnd for me, eating unadulterated honeycomb is eating honey in its most pure form. I think it's such a shame to see cheap, homogenised liquid honey (often diluted with sugar syrup) on supermarket shelves next to the Vegemite and peanut butter - it gives people the idea that honey is just another easily-produced condiment, not worthy of anything more than a few bucks. We adore bees and have a huge appreciation for the effort they put into making honey it takes more than two million flowers to make half a kilo of honey and each worker bee only makes about 1/12th of a teaspoon in its short lifetime.
Eating honeycomb professional#
My husband and I have been keeping bees for about four years, and we worked as professional beekeepers for a year.
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