I’ve started drinking green tea every morning with a little honey and splash of milk.
I started using honey in a glass jar with metal screw lid that I got from a honey co-op in Maine (very tasty).
No matter how careful I was, honey still somehow found its way onto my table, then my Keurig, then other places. Also, the lid became near impossible to remove, despite being as careful as possible not to get honey on the threads of the glass jar. Somehow, someway, honey completely gummed up the threads.
Next, out of being cheap, I went with honey in a plastic squeeze bottle. Again, I was always super careful not to drip any on the container, or close the lid with some still coming out.
You guessed it: honey on my table, my Keurig, my box of tea.
This makes me wonder about honey packaging plants. I assume they must eventually have to abandon the plant when honey residue becomes too invasive. That probably explains why honey is so expensive.
Squeeze bottles seem to limit the stickiness for me. I tried one of those wooden honey drippers, but never got the hang of it and ended up with honey everywhere.
I’ve been doing fine so far, but after reading this I’m sure I’ll be so self-conscious next time I try to sweeten my tea I’ll create a mess of epic proportions. Thanks a bunch!
I just use a normal spoon, no special tricks to it. Since it is the same spoon I stir the tea with, the hot tea will remove the honey from it just fine. Though I don’t try to reseal the jar after I twist it open the first time, I merely slap the lid loosely on. Maybe you bought the extra-sticky stuff?
I use a squeeze bottle and have learned to live with sticky fingers for the two minutes or so it takes me to wash them. I try to be super careful to avoid drips, etc, but the bottle is always gunny.
We buy it in big Mason jars at the farmer’s market and then dump it into a plastic squeezy bear (which everyone knows is the One True Way to dispense honey.) Doesn’t seem any messier than pancake syrup or any other sticky substance.
I don’t have that problem with honey but with maple syrup. I’ve given up waffles completely because I can’t use maple syrup without polluting the entire house with it.
My honey comes in 3 pound jars. I use a spoon if I don’t pour, and even with a spoon I tilt the jar a little so the little drizzle only drags over the lip and maybe the threads on the outside but not down the side. Then I use my finger to swipe the little drip not just from the threads but from the lip and top where the lit comes in contact. Then I lick my finger and put the lid back on loosely. No mess.
I support this rant; I have the same problem with honey.
Ah, now that makes sense! Now, for a brain-bender, how do bees manage to fly in and out of hives full of honey? They should just be big ole balls of honey and bees, all stuck up together.
I haven’t had that specific issue because I’m not fond of honey, but it seems sensible. With other stuff, I’ve had good luck with taking a damp paper towel and wiping down the jar threads before reclosing it.
The suggestion of decanting into a squeezy-bear bottle (or other squeeze bottle) is an excellent one as well. For smaller quantities, something like these might work well (as well as being portable if you want to take it to work or something).
I’ll try to share without sounding condescending. My apologies in advance if I fail.
When I pour out honey (I use a squeeze bear), the contents end up on a plate, in a bowl, or in a cup. Nothing ever drips outside of those containers. When I’m done squeezing, I make sure that the last drop falls out, into said container. There’s never any residue dripping down the side. And if there were, the bottle has one and only one home. I don’t put it on my coffee table, desk, floor, or TV. Any mess would be contained to a small spot on my counter. But as I said, not even that happens.
And it’s not difficult. I am otherwise a comple slob.
Yeah, I’ve never had issues with a honey bear. Even growing up, we used jars of honey with a rubber gasket and flip lock, with a wooden honey dripper, and even then, i managed to not make a mess 9x out of 10. Just put the honey dripper in the honey, spin to make it not have drips, move over to thing you are putting honey in, spin when done, and then go wash the honey dripper. Never an issue, and with a gasketed jar, no honey ever got past the top, so no mess.
If I were to transfer the honey to new containers then surely I’d then have the task of getting the honey out of my bed, and possibly my sweater drawer in my bureau.
I learned something not that long ago: when the honey crystallizes in the squeeze bear, you can NOT de-crystallize the bear in the microwave. I had to go out, buy a new bear, use up THAT honey, and then decant the big bottle into the new bear…
I had to go out, buy a new bear, use up THAT honey, and then decant the big bottle into the new bear…