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Steamy Honey Melter

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During the winter, it is very pleasant to drink a cup of hot tea sweetened with honey.

Since honey crystallizes with cold temperatures and age, one is often forced to process the honey in some way before adding it to the tea - pry off a sticky lid and gouge with it out with a spoon, microwave the jar or dunk it in a hot water bath, etc.

It would be much nicer to simply place a light, well balanced scaffold of sorts atop your kettle, and the honey bear or jar into the scaffold's basket. The basket would be located above the kettle's steam vent. As the water boils, the steam should melt a sufficient amount of honey to sweeten a cup of tea.

ryokan, Dec 29 2008

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       you can try keeping the jar of honey on your stovetop. it seems that the pilot light generates enough heat to keep it soft (on a gas stove) or use of the oven will do it.
I do like your idea, though.+
xandram, Dec 30 2008
  

       I usually find that if there's steam coming out the water is already too hot. Am I doing something wrong?
Spacecoyote, Dec 30 2008
  

       Make fucking honey cubes, you know...like sugar cubes.   

       Do like sugar? One lump or two? ~ appologies to def leppard.
4whom, Dec 30 2008
  

       mmm....honey cubes....
Noexit, Dec 31 2008
  

       //fucking honey cubes//   

       I'd imagine that would get rather sticky... [+]
up_on_cloud_nine, Dec 31 2008
  

       Sorry about the foul language, it was rather gratuitous.   

       Maybe the Honey cubes should be hexagonal prisms?
4whom, Jan 01 2009
  

       honey is all very lovely and has medicinal qualities etc but it IS bee spit after all.
po, Jan 01 2009
  

       And? What's wrong with some nice healthy bee spit on your toast?
up_on_cloud_nine, Jan 01 2009
  

       Despite the fact that simply keeping my honey atop my refrigerator, near the back edge, is enough to keep my honey runny, I do like the novelty value of your idea. +
21 Quest, Jan 01 2009
  

       My honey is eaten waaayyy before it has a time to go crystalline. Especially if it's solid honey. Yum.
up_on_cloud_nine, Jan 02 2009
  

       //fucking honey cubes//   

       Honey cubes that reproduce!!?? Impressive.   

       Not half as impressive as the mating sequence...
up_on_cloud_nine, Jan 03 2009
  
      
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