How do you want your honey packaged. Plastiac bottles/jars? Or glass Large 3 pounds or more or on the small side like 1 pound? A single one pieace lid or is a double canning lid ok? Do you wnat extracted (liquid) honey, or cut comb honey? Do you like haveing a mix, chunks of honey in a jar with the extracted stuff? Your answers help us to package the honey the way people like best. Thank You for the answers.
We usually buy the quart size jar. I don't know the weight. Two piece lids are fine. I like the wide mouth kind so I can dip out of it but the smaller is okay. No bottles with small necks. Thanks. Dooley
Glass jars with wide necks are my favourite. I don't like plastic at all. Both the one pound size and the three pound size please. Single piece lid for me. Extracted honey as it's easier to use in cooking. Sorry but I, personally, don't like chunks of honey and extracted honey mixed. Hope this helps. :-D
I buy honey from a local farm stand, they sell it packaged a few different ways, I choose wide-mouthed, quart sized, glass jars of extracted honey, with a bit of comb in the jar. Gee, I never gave the lid a thought, :-? I think they are one-piece, I'll have to notice when the stand opens back up this spring. But, I also buy smaller, plastic squeezie bottles for ease of use in my tea.
For me it would have to be glass jars, wide mouth, lid - I don't care. I buy different styles of honey for different jobs. Clear runny type, clear with the comb, blocks of the comb or the thick white hard honey. (In case you wondered.....I LOVE IT!) As for size, I guess 1 pinters would be ideal, but if big was all there was, then big is what I would buy.
wide-mouth quart size jars with one-piece lids, no comb. But I do like a chunk of beeswax available for different projects, and my honey-farming neighbor makes beeswax candles.
I prefer glass but would still buy plastic. No comb in my honey please. I most def want a one piece lid. The flat on the two piece always sticks to the jar. I buy fairly small quantities or they go to sugar.
Thank You all for your responces. this information is going to help us greatly since I believe you are a cross section of those about us. Some information for you who sort of asked. The quart size jars hold 3 pounds of honey, Sorry metric isn't spoken here. The pint jars are a pound and a half of honey. A gallon Jar is 12 pounds of honey. Honey that has grainulated can be made liquid again by placeing the jar in kept warm water (100F degrees). Netty, you need to go to the farmers market and by a small bit of honey, you will stopp useing so much cane/beet sugar.Do not buy at the super market, It is imported and cooked before straining. Thank You all. :-D Al
Hi, Al; Sorry to be late ringing in on this one but your last comment covers my preference for honey. I buy from local beekeepers with their sworn assurance that their product has no imported &%#@*&!! mixed into it although I would buy Canadian if it made it down here to Florida. I also object to too much heat used in the extraction & packaging process. My two-cents......... Hank
I buy my honey from local bee-keepers at the farmer's market, and I like it in smaller amounts in glass jars with wide mouths (screw-off plastic lid is nice) so it's easier to dip/spoon or stir. We put it into a little plastic 'honey bear' for table use, and my DH prefers spun honey in a plastic tub. We get the comb-in variety once in a long while as a novelty, but prefer extracted for regular use.
