How To Use Honey Refractometer

Make sure that both your refractometer and honey are room temperature for best results.

How to use honey refractometer. Open light plate and place 2 3 drops of distilled water on main prism like the measurement of honey the water must spreads across the prism. A honey technical bulleting is available from misco customer service or from any of the honey refractometer pages. Hold both sides side bars of the frame. In today s video we take a look at the water content in the honey recently extracted from our beehive at the allotment apiary. Honey refractometer use and calibration a refractometer measures the degree that light passing through a solution is bent.

Moisture 12 27 baume 38 43 and brix 58 90. For more information on honey refractometers search for honey or navigate to the digital handheld category and use the filters to view the selection of honey refractometers. All that you have to do is take a sample of the honey you want to test and cover the prism or well of your refractometer. Calibration of the refractometer. Knowing how to use a honey refractometer is a basic beekeeper s skill.

Air bubbles or obstructions will interfere with the readings so apply your honey as smoothly and seamlessly as you can. Hold the instrument towards a bright light for easier reading of the result. In a little clean room 20 25 c place your opened honey tank covered by clean cloth and the dehumidifier. A q tip or finger can be used to spread the sample over the glass. It is a three in one device meaning that it lets you know three indexes at the same time including baume brix and honey moisture.

The automatic temperatures compensation that. Inspect a frame of honey for open cells. If it doesn t work rusty idea is a good way. Hold light plate in the direction of light source a look eyepiece now see clearly two field blue and white fields. The extraction went really wel.

Bees cap honey when sufficient moisture has been removed but beekeepers often harvest frames with many uncapped cells or store extracted honey in excessively humid rooms. The amount of bending of the light depends on the concentration of water in the honey being measured. Hold the frame over the butcher paper. For honey with too water inside you can use an electric dehumidifier. Without bad smells.