Honey melter PRIMIO®

01 · A FIXED 45 °C

No thermostat, for better and for worse

There is no regulation: you plug it in and it settles at 45 °C constant. The advantage is that there is no way to overshoot — no lapse of attention takes your honey to 60 °C; the trade-off is that you cannot bring it down either if what you wanted was gentler heat. It is a stainless steel element suitable for food contact, with no electronics to fail.

02 · TIME DOES THE DAMAGE

Which is why slow is a good thing

Heating does not spoil honey by itself: what ages it is the combination of temperature and time — HMF rises, diastase activity falls and the aromas go. Fine crystals begin to melt from around 28 °C; coarse ones need to get past 40. With a fixed 45 °C the aim is just enough fluidity for the least punishment: as soon as the honey runs, switch off and let it come down. Taking its time is not a fault, it is what honey needs.

03 · WHICH SIZE TO CHOOSE

The spiral has to fit across the bottom

The 210 mm is for buckets of 20 to 25 kg, which is where it is used most. The 280 mm gains contact surface and suits wider containers and small settling tanks. On settling tanks of 200 or 400 kg it does not reach: the spiral is small against the diameter of the tank and heats a circle in the middle while the rest stays crystallised.

04 · HOW IT IS PLACED

Low down, because heat rises

The spiral sits as low as possible inside the container: heat goes up, so placing it high leaves the bottom untouched. Overall height of the assembly is 63 cm, counting the body the cable comes out of. It runs on 230 V and is cleaned with hot water as soon as you take it out — honey stuck to the steel comes away by itself while it is still warm, and costs twice the work once it has crystallised on top.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

It has no thermostat: the temperature is fixed and cannot be regulated. And it is not for 200 or 400 kg settling tanks — the spiral diameter falls short.