Y’know they sell honey in squeezable bottles like ketchup and other condiments, right? This stupid wooden barrel on a stick solution seems like a recipe for a sticky mess. Also, do you just leave it in the jar, making it impossible to put the lid back on? Take it out, covered in honey, and wash it for later?
My disdain for bad tools is irrational, I know.
the honey that comes in the squeezable bottles is lower quality and the bottles themselves are wasteful. i’d rather pay a little extra, get honey from a beekeeper, know my local agriculture is being pollinated by a local beekeeper, and deal with a little piece of wood i have to rinse a little bit.
the convenience is distinctly not worth the degradation in all of the things i like about honey
Y’know they sell honey in squeezable bottles like ketchup and other condiments, right?
[Citation needed]
Sure, they exist, but it’s really hard to find real honey in a squeeze bottle. And it would probably suck, real honey is far thicker.
I’m guessing that depends on where you live. In colorado literally every bottle in the grocery store is squeeze and they’re all locally grown real honey. I don’t even know where you could live where the honey wouldn’t be real. If it’s labelled honey it can’t be something else???
The honey in the squeeze bottles is processed so it doesn’t crystalize. Nothing wrong with that, but it does change the flavor a bit.
Valid points except that squeezable bottle honey ain’t shit so it is worth the extra bother.
Xella@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You should have more disdain for that low quality ass honey in a squeeze bottle. You should try local honey, it’ll change your life and then you’ll find yourself buying these dumbass barrels on a stick.
tyler@programming.dev 1 day ago
you can get local honey in squeeze bottles… literally the grocery stores in colorado sell only local honey (never seen honey from elsewhere here) and it’s all in squeeze bottles. Now it’s not like small-batch cottage foods, but it’s still local, created in the state of CO.
I get honey from my next door neighbor, and since we have catnip plants all his honey tastes like catnip, and it’s good, but the stuff from the grocery store tastes just as good, it’s just not a unique taste like catnip.
Xella@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I like to get raw unfiltered honey and there’s no way this stuff I get can come out of a squeeze bottle. 100% needs to be spooned out because it’s almost a solid.
In the end I was making jokes about the main stream honey bear bottles ❤️
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
disclaimer: I have not tried a dipper
but I do use spoons and even butter knives for honey, and it works fine. well, even. and I’m somebody who likes efficiency and effectiveness in most things. I can’t see why I would want one of these, even after reading all the comments about the pros.
it just doesn’t seem any better for me. I don’t need to carry the honey more than a foot from the jar. I don’t need to be able to dose out the honey from the utensil, because I measure it out when taking it from the jar. I do need to be able to close the honey jar so it seals.
I have half a dozen local honey products in my cupboard rn fwiw
Xella@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol I’ve never seen one of these things in person, I didn’t even know it’s called a dipper 😹