Honey creamer with turnable bucket holder

01 · IT'S FOR BUCKETS, NOT DRUMS

The measurement that decides

The adjustable clamp and the turntable take containers of up to 38 cm in diameter and 55 cm tall. That covers the usual honey buckets, including the 40 kg ones if they stay within that figure.

What does not fit is a 200 or 300 kg drum: those run 57-60 cm across, well beyond the clamp. It is the question we get most, and the answer is no.

02 · MINUTES OR DAYS

Two jobs with the same machine

Homogenising a bucket — breaking up layers and spreading the crystallisation — is minutes of machine time. Creaming is something else: it is not one long stir, it is several short stirs spread over days while the honey crystallises.

That is why the machine has a timer with interval modes. Anyone expecting to put a bucket in and take it out creamed in one afternoon is buying the right tool with the wrong expectation.

03 · WHY 70 REVS

Break crystals, don't whip air

The 70 revolutions a minute are slow on purpose. Cream honey is made by breaking the large crystal so a fine one forms, and that calls for gentle, repeated shear.

At higher speed what you achieve is beating air in: foam on the surface and a product you then have to skim. The 370 W are there to move thick honey slowly, not to whip fast.

04 · THE FIVE CENTIMETRES

And the honey cannot be hard

With plastic buckets, the mixer must stay at least 5 cm from the rim. Any closer and the blade bites the wall and holes it.

And the entry condition: the honey cannot be completely hard, because the stirrer has to be able to sink in. If it is heavily crystallised, temper it first — in a warm room at around 39 °C — until it forms a viscous mass.

05 · CHANGING BUCKET

Without watering the floor

Loosen the screw on the frame and push the fork upwards: the rod then hangs and drips into the bucket you have just finished instead of over the honey house.

The next bucket is worked at the same height using the adjusting screw on the fork, without measuring again. The machine is continuously height-adjustable and locks in any position.

06 · BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the machine: