Hi all
 
On the motor thread, has anybody on the group built their own honey
beater for making decent batches of creamed honey?
 
A friend of mine has swopped me a large washing machine motor for a
volume of honey. I plan to connect this thing to a paddle and then
put it in a fifty litre container (I think thats about 9gallons?) and
then set it in motion using a capacitor, or maybe a hand crank. Then
I am thinking about pouring a thin stream of liquid nitrogen into the
honey as it beats, the idea being that the shock of the temperature
change should increase the rate of seed crystals forming from the
beating proccess? The whole thing will be in a closed container with
the lid without an air gap. The Liquid nitrogen will go in a small
hole with a well, so that there will be a minimum of flavour loss to
air, as well as bubble trapped.
 
Does this sound like a bad idea or a good idea? The thing is the
motor is really heavy and if somebody else has done something like
this and it did not work, then I am not so keen to waste too much
time on it.
 
Keep well
 
Garth
 
PS to Debbie - congrats on getting the business on the books!---
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