How to Decrystalize Honey
That honey of yours hasn’t gone bad, it’s just crystalized! Try this trick to keep your honey in syrupy shape forever!
Dish Count: 1 Saucepan
I was given a quart jar full of raw honey by a friend about three years ago – and I’m still working my way through it! Good friends give you gifts, best friends give you quart jars of super amazing home grown honey. The only problem was that I wasn’t eating nearly enough peanut butter honey sandwiches to use it all up and over time it crystalized and became cloudy and kind of hard. But there is an easy fix for this. Here’s how.
Grab a deep saucepan and fill it with water. Grab your jar of honey and remove the lid from the jar. This method doesn’t necessarily work with plastic honey bears, so if you are going to use plastic containers, make sure it is heat safe. Regular honey-bears or plastic containers will melt using this method… and they will melt if you microwave them too. Not that I would know that from childhood experience or anything. *womp womp*
Place the jar into the water and bring it to a very low simmer, just until some bubbles start to form below the jar and on the pan. I make sure my water level doesn’t go above the honey level as to not heat the glass jar, just because I’m paranoid about heating empty glass.
As the honey begins to heat up and soften up, use a large spoon to start to break up the larger pieces of crystalized honey. Do this occasionally until all of the crystals have broken up and the honey becomes smooth again.
Carefully lift the jar out of the water and allow to cool completely before covering the jar and storing it.
Here you can see the Before…
And the After… Now, I’m craving a peanut butter and honey sandwich.
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This needs to be filed under, ‘why didn’t I think of that?!’ – super smart and love this idea!!
Thanks for the tip – I had no idea honey could last that long and still be good
Easy and this is a tip for everyone because you know we all have crystalized honey sitting in our pantry.
Love this! I never know what to do when my honey gets crystalized so I just pop it in the microwave. Then I read how you weren’t supposed to do that. Now I know what to do 🙂
BEST FRIEND EVER! Also, brilliant tips girl!
But by heating the honey, you destroy all the goodness that’s in it.. 🙁
Bookmarked for life!!!!!!!!! You are so smart, friend!
Well now I feel stupid for getting rid of a jar of honey that had crustalised!
Nice tip!!
What a great quick fix!
I can confirm this is a hot mess when tried in a plastic jar…from experience. So, from now on I’m putting all my honey in glass jars from the get-go! Can’t tell you how many jars I’ve had to throw out because they crystallized to the point of not being able to use. So annoying!
Such an easy tip! Thanks girl!
Well, what do you know! This is a great tip and good to know!
This works. You’ve made me hungry 🙂
I so needed this this morning–thanks for the great tip! 🙂
Great tip, it’s one of those obvious things that people just don’t know. 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
Ran into this issue over the weekend and solved it by just microwaving it for 20 seconds. Worked like a charm.
So smart and so easy!
Gorgeous photos! One of my favorite tips my Granny would decrystalize honey the same way growing up!
I had this problem the other day! Pinned!
SO good to know!!
Excellent tip! oxox
actually honey never gets spoiled.. it can last very very very long time. like forever.. 🙂
Actually if your honey is in a plastic bottle all you need to do is sit it in some warm water for a bit and it will start to uncrystalize. I too would be careful with heating raw honey so that it doesn’t lose it good for you ness!
i tried this and had it to where it was very runny but still had the crystals in it and crunchy. They were teeny tiny but enough to notice. Is that suppose to be or did I do something wrong?
If you have the plastic honey bear you can hold i under the tap warm to hot water. It will melt. Of course a quart of honey des not lost long enough in my house t crystallize, LOL. Good old idea, thanks for reminding folks.