I’m going to save you honey, literally!

Sometimes you try new things and sometimes those things work like a charm and then there are the disasters.

You know I love a good dehydrator project. Across my social media feeds came all these ideas about dehydrating honey to make honey powder. The powder can them be carried more easily than actual honey to add to food and beverages when out and about.

Oh I thought well that sounds like fun. Um…it turns out it is just a hot mess. We own a barrel type dehydrator that works for almost everything (except honey). The only “issue” is that the trays cannot hold liquid items to dehydrate. Can I just say that might be for a reason.

Undaunted by logic I purchased a small bottle of honey from Costco. I like a good experiment but certainly was not going to use my raw Utah honey for this one. I received silicone trays for the dehydrator for Christmas. As an aside these are fantastic and make clean up of the trays so easy. I believe all my items will now be dehydrated using these tray liners for ease of clean up.

I poured out the honey on various trays and turned the machine on.

24 hours later and I did not have anything resembling dried honey to be ground up for a powder. I was beginning to think this might not work. We thought maybe it was dry enough to begin to process and I think a small portion of it was but…

Turns out grinding honey makes a huge mess of your food processor (and you). By the end I was covered in honey bits as well as the kitchen. I washed up the kitchen and put myself in the shower.

I put what I had managed to grind in the first run through (oh by the way you have to clean the food processor every 5 minutes because honey is very sticky and can cause your blade to stop turning) into a jar.

It reconstituted itself overnight. I just give up. I am not sure how much a jar of honey powder costs but if needed I will pay by the ounce for that stuff. On a brighter note my kitchen is very clean.