Rendering Beeswax; A video tutorial
Have you ever wondered just how rendering beeswax from hives is done? At Bells of the North Homestead, we’re pretty small scale so we don’t have fancy tools to render ours. Instead, like many of our other processes, we go with a bit more old school, traditional ways. As we work on projects around our property, we tend to use current technology along with historical ways of doing things. In fact, one of my hobby’s is to study mid 18th century ways of cooking and crafting. A great channel to follow is Townsends.
Here I begin the process of just how we render ours every other year or so. As you can see, for the small time beekeeper, rendering beeswax is a several day project which is why we tend to only melt ours down every other year.
While it makes it a bit more problematic due to cooler temperatures to wait until winter to do this, I tend to always do this in the winter. This is because during the winter months I have more time to make jams and jellies, bake bread, make pasta and of course, render beeswax. When the snow begins to fall, our workload on the property drops and we tend to focus more on inside projects. This is when the magic truly happens as we create delicious meals, make soap for the next year or, of course, render our beeswax.
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Please feel free to subscribe to our channel. I tend to post new content every other week approximately however the time between August and October becomes incredibly insane for us as we prepare for winter to arrive so I don’t post quite as often then. I’d love to get your feedback. What do you think of our process? If you are a beekeeper do you have tricks for making it go faster?
