Many people prefer whipped honey because it’s easier to spread.
Whipped honey is also known by many other names, including: creamed honey, spun honey, churned honey, honey fondant, honey spread, granulated honey and set honey.
What’s different about Whipped Honey?
Whipped honey has been through a process that mostly involves “vigorous stirring” or “whipping”. The main reason it’s done is to prevent the honey from forming larger crystals; and as a consequence it is thicker and therefore easier to spread.
Crystals?
All honey tends to form honey crystals after a while. Even though these naturally occuring crystals are larger than the crystals in whipped honey, they’re perfectly edible. When normal honey crystalises, the only down-sides are that: it doesn’t look as nice; it may be a bit harder to get it out of the jar, and you may end up with chunks of honey on your food.
Some people think that this form of crystallisation is a sign that the honey has “gone off”, but that’s not the case at all (its just like water turning to ice). You can reverse the crystallisation by placing the jar of honey in warm water or near a sunny window.
When you buy honey from a supermarket it will normally have been heated and filtered using a process that’s designed to slow the rate at which it will crystallise. This is done so it looks nice on the shelves for longer. Unfortunately the heating and filtering process also eliminates most of the healthy stuff in the honey.
Advantages of Whipped Honey
The most natural way to prevent the honey from forming into large crystals is to whip it. Whipping it actually creates a very large amount of small honey crystals and these small crystals prevent large crystals from forming. The small crystals also give the honey a milky appearance.
Whipping honey also has the advantage that it doesn’t involve heating and therefore all of the healthy stuff remains in the honey.
Varieties of Gourmet whipped honey
At different times of the year our bees have access to the following 6 species of flowers : Ironbark, Grey Box, Brush Box, Forest Redgum, Bloodwood, Macadamia. Therefore we only have specific varieties of whipped honey in the few months immediately after the bees have collected pollen from that flower.
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