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.