Not everyone's idea of a fantastic photo opportunity I know, but it is pure beeswax, from one frame!
Ready to refine the bees wax from the sneaky one frame extraction yesterday.
Ready to refine the bees wax from the sneaky one frame extraction yesterday.
- Wax resting overnight in water to wash off excess honey. ( I couldn't get any more off...I tried!) It was a fine shavings consistency once washed!
- Place on paper towel and into sieve, suspended above a bowl with some water
- Into a lidded plastic storage container
- put into car
- time it for two consecutive days of 42C...
....and nothing happened!
It got steamy, It softened but no melt! (not like the YouTube clip at all) I probably had too much wax in the sieve, and the white container probably didn't help...
So I grabbed an old clean tin from the recycle bin and melted it on the stove top, pouring through the sieve into a small takeaway container with water in it.
Result? 40 grams of wax! Some residue - I forgot to photograph it, but there was some. Still a bit of residue settled into the base of the wax as the sieve wasn't fine enough I guess.
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