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.
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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
 
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