Extracting honey without an extractor
Can
you get honey out of the comb without an extractor. Well, sure.
Just cut the comb off
the frame, put it in a colander atop a bowl, and mash everything up a
bit with a potato masher (or spoon.)
Honey will slowly
trickle down into the bowl...slow being the operative word if
you start out with frozen honey from a dead
hive in January.
On the scale of our two
person family, the truth is that extracting honey using a bowl and
colander is probably the best option --- faster than cleaning the
extractor, really. Yet another reason to set my sights on top bar hives.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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That is just how I got the honey from my hollow log beehive 4 years ago! I see you are pressing brood honey- I did that as well, but it was a bit strong for my taste. But the new honey was so delicious- tasted like Kudzu flowers. Like jasmine almost.
Enjoy your honey!