Have you opened a jar of beautiful local honey, only to find it’s gone thick, cloudy or grainy? A lot of people assume something’s gone wrong. They think the honey’s off, old, or “turned to sugar”. It hasn’t. Honey crystallises because it’s real. That’s the short version. The longer version is a bit more interesting
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You’ve just opened a jar of honey and it’s thick, creamy and sits perfectly on your knife. Or maybe it’s clear, golden and pours like syrup. One is set honey. The other is runny. And if you’ve ever wondered which is better, or why some jars stay liquid while others turn solid, you’re not alone.
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Set honey collects rumours the way a jar collects fingerprints. People see a thick, cloudy pot and decide something has gone wrong. It hasn’t. Most of the time the honey is doing exactly what raw honey does. This article takes the most common myths, one by one, and answers them in plain English. If you
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If you live in Nottingham, Derby or the villages between them, the best set honey is not the one that travelled the farthest. It is the one that came from hives a short drive away. Local set honey is raw honey from a known place that has crystallised naturally. It tastes of the fields, hedgerows,
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If you’ve been looking at local honey jars and seen both “set honey” and “creamed honey” on the labels, you’re probably wondering what the actual difference is. They both look thick. They both spread. So are they the same thing? Set honey and creamed honey are related, but they’re not identical. One happens naturally. The
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Set honey is honey that has undergone a completely natural process of crystallisation, turning it thick, cloudy and spreadable instead of runny. In the UK it’s called set honey (or “soft set” when it’s been guided into a particularly smooth texture). It’s not old, it’s not spoiled, and it’s certainly not inferior. In many ways,
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