Honey Tank 50kg Stainless steel

01 · WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE

The light rises, the honey stays

Left to rest, the air bubbles, wax fragments and particles the filter let through rise to the surface, and are lifted off with a skimmer before bottling. What is left below is clean honey. How long it takes is not set by the manual: it depends on the room temperature and the honey itself — a few hours for a runny honey, considerably longer for a dense one.

02 · THE GUILLOTINE GATE

It really does cut off

It carries a 1½'' guillotine gate in food-grade nylon: instead of turning, the shutter drops and cuts the flow dead. Bottling jar by jar, that difference shows, because the cut-off is clean and no thread hangs between one jar and the next. And it is the standard honey-house size, so spares and fittings are the usual ones.

03 · THE FLAT BOTTOM

TIG welded, with no cracks

The bottom is welded with TIG, a continuous joint with no pores or cracks: there is no seam where honey sits fermenting and no corner impossible to clean. It is a flat bottom, so to get the last kilos out it helps to tilt it slightly or to stand it on a support that gives height for the jar under the gate.

04 · WHAT IT DOES NOT COME WITH

No handles, no clamp ring, no filter

Better said up front: it has no handles and no clamping ring — that is what owners miss most, especially compared with the 30 kg one. The polycarbonate lid rests on top with its knob, lets you see the honey without uncovering it and keeps dust out, but it is not an airtight closure. And the filter is separate: there are sieves that sit in the mouth to strain as you fill.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

It does not include handles, clamping ring, filter or stand. It measures 500 mm tall by 310 across and weighs 7 kg empty.