Submitted 1 month ago by King@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
So once upon a time, you actually got honey at the market replenishing your pot, rather than buying jars in the supermarket.
This thing was always in the pot, and you did not use a spoon to get your honey, it works better than a spoon and you just leave it in the pot.
Today americans probably bleach their jars, spoons and bees, but honey is surprisingly shelf stable, having a pot with a little hole with this little plunger sticking out is fine really.
bleach their … bees
Yes.
I have never tried bleaching my b.
It’s always nice to bleach your bee hole.
Ooooh it makes so much sense to leave it perpetually in the pot! I never understood why it was a thing, because there was always a bit of honey remaining on it and that felt weird, but now i get it, thank you for explaining.
Why do you feel they’re better than a spoon?
huh interesting, Ive never seen one in real life, but I got curious and found this video showing how it works: youtu.be/yylHE8w6I9Q
We’ve got four different sized ones in our house!
Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…
Like a metal knife with a wooden handle?
Why doesn’t your honey spoon have any honey on it?
Jar was empty too… I guess my wife cleaned it and didn’t re-fill it? 🤔 Honey is more her thing than mine.
You keep slowly rotating it as you move it from the honey to whatever you’re going to put the honey in so the viscous liquid essentially “orbits” this thing instead of dripping onto your countertop. Then when over the target you stop rotating and let it pour off.
Or you could use a teaspoon.
Why, when this thing makes it easier? Unless you have a spoon with a round handle.
Sure, and that general purpose tool works fine. This is just the tool specifically designed for honey. It’s not necessary, just useful.
I have
Liar. Prove it.
Yeah, prove it! Send us a picture with the honey dipper sticking out your fart hole, or we ain’t buying it!
Bend over and I’ll show you
You can buy them in every cutlery section in my country. But it’s kind of useless, I’m not sure why this is the design that is associated with honey. A spoon works better.
You can rotate this as it’s dripping to manage the flow due to grooves which you can’t do with a spoon.
And then many more dropa are stuck between the ridges and get wasted.
Spoon is made out of metal. Changes the taste of honey.
Really? How does that work? I’ve never heard that before
Check out this fucking neanderthal, doesn’t even have a Syrup Schlorper.
I own two of them. They are great for honey.
Lmao the little crusty honey bear. Been there, microwave it for like 8 seconds.
Or they really know their honey and put it in a honey dispenser instead of using this messy torture device.
does that work well with real honey that will eventually crystalize tho? (not a honey expert but it seems like the obvious advantage to a honey dipper)
I have one ! You actually need one for pure honey in jars as metal changes its properties
Just squeeze the little plastic bear and the honey spurts out the top of its head
Once again with the plastic bears. I hate those little cunts so much.
it’s sold in every souvenir shop of stuff made with olive tree wood in Greece. and it’s a stupid device, so much honey stays stuck in it after using it, absolutely not worth it
You’re supposed to leave it in the jar when not in use.
okay but my honey jars have a screw on lid, that’s not very practical ^^
I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.
Oh it’s called a honey dripper? This guy called it a syrup schlorper.
How many schmeckles does a schlorper cost nowadays anyway?
These are the same people that got their knickers in a twist about microwaving water for tea. Logic is not found in these types, only vibes.
I know what you mean but also there is a viseral vibe around microwaving water in particular that feels very caveman coded in the weirdest way.
I have a honey pot with one of those that somebody gave me as a gift.
I tried to use it one time to be fancy when I made biscuits, and put it in the middle of the table during dinner. At first people tried to use it, but it was such a fucking pain in the ass, eventually they just stopped trying to be nice about it used a spoon to get the honey bc wtf is the point?
Well it does keep the honey not dripping if rotated, and works nicely if the honey is applied to hot water (as if you don’t, the honey will never leave those stripey grooves).
All of this can be said about a spoon too, though.
Anyone with a decent honey set up has these.
Until reading the comments, I didn’t know people actually owned these. I thought it was supposed to look like the stripes of a bee on a stick as a gimmick to sell. But according to the comments, it’s designed that way so you can twirl it if your honey container is far away from where you want to spread the honey to keep from dripping everywhere.
I’ve never seen one of these in real life, whether at home or traveling. I’ve been to almost all 50 states and 10 other countries.
Bahaha. I guess I grew up with these in Utah and thought nothing of it it. Even made a couple in high school shop class.
The beehive state. It figures.
designed that way so you can twirl it if your honey container is far away from where you want to spread the honey to keep from dripping everywhere.
As opposed to moving the container or what you want the honey on to be closer together.
I have seen these before, but I’ve never seen them for anything other than honey. No one has a gravy twirler or a pancake syrup twirler.
To be fair, far away could mean arms reach on the table compared to the squirtable honey containers from the grocery store
Syrup and gravy are too liquidy for that to work. Honey can get VERY slow and thick, which seems to be why the premise works with this thing.
Gravy twirler you say…
I’ve got 3 of those at home (actually got one as a gift last week) but we don’t use it because the open honey jar attracts ants. So we use spoons. I do like it though.
Why would this tool necessitate leaving the honey jar open at all times?
The hole for the tool (I actually don’t know the proper name) is small enough for ants to get through.
Ever used one for honey? You’ll never go back to trying to use anything else.
yeah why use a stick that’s worked for thousands of years when you can take nature’s bounty and stuff it into a bunch of plastic that then shits the honey onto your food.
what’s not to love?
Yeah, but just look at those black levels.
These are bear butt plugs. Its how they stop themselves from shitting themselves during hibernation
What do the twinks use
The bears
I’d like to see a picture of that.
I used these all the time as a kid. I haven’t seen one in a few years though.
Jars of honey you bought at the supermarket used to come with them.
I grew up in America and I saw them often enough. They must have grown up in Sucksville.
We have one. A small one that came with this little countertop ceramic honey pot we found at a pottery shop. We actually tried using it, but the ants got to the literal honey pot very quickly.
it’s the easiest tool to use to get the honey out of the jar and into your mug for tea. i got mine at the farmer’s market because local honey is thicker than store honey, but even stores that sell local honey don’t sell these. highly recommend one if you’ve never seen one. it makes making tea so much easier
You know they have invented the thing called teaspoon, it makes it very easy to get the honey out of the jar and into your mug of tea. Try it and you’ll be amazed. I’m sure you can find it at a some farmers market too.
i have and that’s what i’m comparing against. thank you for your unconstructive input. with the teaspoon you can’t twist it to break a run before putting it in your mug and adding the hot water. so the teaspoon ends up being messier.
also what… did you think i was comparing against? my hands?
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.
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.
Somehow ended up with one of these in my house as a kid. Nobody had bought it, my parents were avowed agaisnt them because they find them hard to use… must have been a gift from the honey fairy. Anyway, I insisted on actually trying to use it one time.
It’s not useful. It doesn’t do anything that a spoon doesn’t do.
You might argue that it spreads the honey in cute little criss cross patterns but honey is either so runny that it all pools together on the toast/cake it’s applied to, or is so viscuous that it doesn’t do any of that stuff and needs to be spread with a knife.
Honeydippers might be a medieval “emperor’s new clothes” style hoax.
From other comments, I think it’s specifically for getting runny honey into tea. A spoon can do that and a lot more, but doesn’t look so cool and specialized. I use a knife for applying to bread.
I have one
my grandma had one! i’m pretty sure I tried to use it once
no idea what the damn thing is called tho
I guess that works if you use more runny honey but my honey is so stiff that you need to use a hammer and a chisel. I friggin hate honey that is almost liquid, it needs to be more like a rock.
Grew up beekeeper, did not have one of these.
I own one, but mostly because I had a phase of getting into speciality honey and was eating honey every day during that time. It’s really the optimal tool for the job of getting honey out of a jar and onto your toast while also being easy to clean.
Also, please for the love of God stop buying shitty honey that comes in a bear shaped jar. Go to your local farmers market and pay what you think is way too much money for locally produced honey. Honey where quality really matters and a little bit of really good honey is better than a lot of cheap honey.
Speak for yourself there’s one within 3m of me right now
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I have at least 3 of these. They’re hardly rare. I think it’s just you.
Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I’ve wondered the same as OP and never saw one in real life.
Probably it’s a regional thing, like how in some countries (as I recently discovered) they don’t know what a cheese slicer is and just butcher cheese with a knife.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Of course you had to be Dutch. I swear, all my Dutch friends have like 3 of those an a couple of those electric grills with mini pans for melting cheese below
In all fairness, the slicer isn’t even useful for all cheeses. It’s convenient for Edam and similar ones though.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s it? Where do you live? I’m in California in the US.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 month ago
Damn, this guy’s fancy
other_cat@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
I’ve got one; bought on a whim at the local farmer’s market from a beekeeper. I kind of hate it though.