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Jan Tempelman <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:40:23 +0200
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1 Also the heating of honey will distroy the enzyme, Diastase,
Invertase, Glucose-oxydase, Phosphatase and Katalase.
(in the microwave they disappear in minutes!!!)
 
If you feel that honey is nothing more than a sugar with a funny taste,
then the HMF content is not important.
 
But if you find that honey is beneficial for your health because of the
hundreds of other valuable ingredients, then.....
   DON'T HEAT IT UP, never !!!
 
2   Of all the enzymes in honey (diastase, invertase, glucose-oxidase,
phosphatase and katalase),
glucose-oxidase is the most volatile (most sensitive for heating)
Heating for 40 minutes at 70°C (160°F) will eliminate glucose-oxidase.
 
1 is from >>http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/hmf.html
 
2 is from http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/H2O2.html
 
Garth wrote:
 
> Hi All
>
> Extracted ten supers today annd was thinking about ways of making the
> proccess more efficient.
>
> Honey is very dense and absorbs microwaves rapidly. Warm honey is
> more fluid than cold. Warm wax blows out more easily.
>
> If one had the frames passing throuugh a microwave beem, then the
> microwaves would heat the honey faster than the wax and it would
> fling out almost instantly reducing the weight of the frame and
> therefore any increased heat of the wax thereafter would be less of a
> problem. A sensor on the side of the drum could detect the heat of
> honey coming out and then switch the beem on and of. (beem or beam??)
>
> I just thought this of this today and figured it sounded too bizarre
> to actually try myself as would cook some part of myself, but maybe
> somewhere somebody knows how to work with such things and could give
> it a try?
>
> Just a thought
>
> Garth
>
> PS it would also help with filtering as the honey would be prewarmed.
> ---
> Garth Cambray       Kamdini Apiaries
> 15 Park Road        Apis melifera capensis
> Grahamstown         800mm annual precipitation
> 6139
> Eastern Cape
> South Africa               Phone 27-0461-311663
>
> 3rd year Biochemistry/Microbiology    Rhodes University
>
> Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this post in no way
> reflect those of Rhodes University.
 
 
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