I spread out the cappings on a tarp in the woods and let the bees clean out the honey (and, it seems, alot of the junk). I am left with whistle-clean, dry wax flakes. These I then place in a corning glass casserole in my microwave and heat on high until the wax is melted. This is then strained through a nylon stocking and poured into waxed paper cups. When the wax has hardened, the paper of the cups peels right off. So, I end up with a whole boxful of little 4 oz. wax "bucket" shapes. If there are imperfections on the bottom of the shapes, they can be sliced off, the wax remelted and re-strained and almost perfect shapes prepared for entering in the fair, candles, hand creams, lip balms, you name it!