Making Fake Honey from Wild Flowers and Sugar

I like to imagine you did all this while wearing a black and yellow striped onesie

"Look what they need to mimic even a fraction of our power!" -Bees

See, what you're missing is you have to regurgitate it back up and THEN, it's honey.

I can see it now, "I can't believe it's not Honey!", from Atomic Shrimp's not-honey farm. You'll make millions!

I've made floral inverted syrups before (mostly lavender). I don't boil the flowers prior to putting them in the syrup. I just bring the sugar up to temperature, toss the flowers in, turn off the heat, let it cool, then strain it into jars.

If you just have a gas hob, a trick I learned to even out the heat is put a flat cast iron pan on the hob and then the pot on top of it. It distributes the heat a bit more evenly like you would get on an electric stove

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This is an OLD family recipe passed down through my family. We use purple clover, white clover, and fireweed. This video absolutely made my day, week, and year!! Open comments for my recipe. 🐝

Huge shoutout to Jenny! I remember how you said that she doesn‘t feel comfortable in front of the camera and I‘m so happy to see her in your videos. She did amazing! :) Can‘t wait for more fake honey experiments. Keep up the good work!

So all those prison movies where the prisoners use boiling water and sugar they are actually just making fake honey from wildflowers, how nice.

This is one of the nicest videos I've probably ever watched. I've had a rough week and watching you make fake honey with your soft voice, curiosity, and kindness was just sublime.

That was fascinating. Last year, I cut loads of elderflower stems and left them on white paper to allow bugs to go somewhere else. After shaking and another few hours indoors, I cut of all the flowers and put them into half a large jar of honey for three months or so. I strained the honey and it tasted of elderflowers really strongly. Also, I added some well scrubbed lemon rind strips and it’s wonderful. Over a year later, it still smells of elderflowers! If you do another experiment, perhaps you could add flowers (maybe elderflower or lavender) to your pre-made honey mix and see if you can ‘harvest’ some of that heady summery floral fragrance. Lovely to have Jenny at the party. Thanks for that.

I have feint memories of school chemistry where we steam-distilled flowers to get the aromatic oils out. Perhaps you could concentrate the flavours that way without heating them to destruction then adding it to the syrup in a concentrated form..

A little tip. If you want to infuse maximum flavour and aroma from a hot water steep. Then use a thermos/vacuum flask and steep overnight. That will keep the water hotter for longer and ensure a better infusion of the flowers into it. From what i was told the flowers from flowering currant make a better flavour than the actual berries. From experience of trying to make a syrup from the berries in the past i can only assume that's the case as i found those rather bland compared to their commercially grown blackcurrant versions

The variety on your channel and your “unfiltered” self (ie making content you want to make instead of just what performs well) is what makes you a wonderful creator. Thanks for keeping me company during a very stressful exam season ❤️

When you were answering the question "Why do this?", it made me think an alternative name for this channel could be "Why Not?". Definitely seems to sum up the whole ethos.

This is amazing, I originally subscribed for the scam baiting episodes,however, I have been loving everything else you do too! What an amazing and diverse channel,thanks for all your hard work,Awesome 👏

You are one of my favorite youtubers right now. The diversity of content and the shared interest seem to never end. Cant wait to see you hit 1 mil!!!

It was nice to see Jenny again, I love her voice.

Always interesting to see your stuff. We did something like this for a class I took in college many years ago. We did it with Dandelion and clover. The difference is we did the infusion cooler at about 90c. We also brought them to a boil very slowly. And used a lid on the pots. The Dandelion was only ok but the clover tasted like a ok store bought honey. As always keep up the great videos.