How Do You Use Honey Sticks

The "OGT Squad" has a meeting every Monday morning time at our studio, where we organize our editorial calendar and brainstorm ideas for posts. These meetings are very serious, and nosotros never become sidetracked into discussions that have nothing to practice with the blog. ;-) During one such recent discussion, someone happened to mention that they have seen honey sticks popping up just about everywhere lately.

The convenience of honey sticks is pretty obvious. You become a single-serving of honey that'south easy to squeeze into a potable or onto a snack, and it's almost mess-free! Just as with anything that'southward packaged every bit a single-serving, it comes at a price. You tin detect honey sticks online or in stores for about $.25 each, simply even that seems pretty steep for a scrap of honey in a straw, correct? This got usa wondering if we could come upward with a fashion to make dearest sticks at dwelling. And that leads us to today'south postal service!

Information technology's actually quite easy to brand your own homemade honey sticks. Not only is it quite cheap to do, but yous tin also choose what kind of honey goes into them. Your favorite local, raw honey? That lavender-infused honey you've had your centre on? An interesting chili-infused honey? Why not try them all?? :-) Here's how you can make your ain love sticks at home.

How To Make Homemade Dear Sticks

Supplies:

Love
Squeeze bottle
Articulate straws
Heat sealer*

*Note: There are a few different options here. We borrowed my daughter Britta's FoodSaver auto to employ for this project, and it worked perfectly. If you don't have access to a vacuum sealer, handheld oestrus sealers are relatively inexpensive!

Directions:

Offset by gathering your supplies together. What kind of straws you choose to use is totally upward to you lot. Nosotros used large, thick smoothie-style straws, which we liked because they hold quite a flake more than beloved than a standard drinkable straw. (If your heat sealer isn't very powerful, it may not generate enough heat to seal such a thick straw. In that case, a thinner straw would probably exist your best bet.)

Footstep 1: Seal One Stop

Once you've chosen your straws, put one stop of i of your straws into your vacuum sealer (or rut sealer). Position the cease on the heat sealing strip, close the lid, and plow the handle downwards to lock information technology into place.

The FoodSaver we used has 2 buttons: Vacuum/Seal and Seal. In guild to avoid a glutinous mess in your vacuum sealer, you lot'll desire to choose the seal-simply option. :-) We just pressed Seal, and voila! Our straw was ready for honey.

Stride 2: Fill The Harbinger

Before filling your straws, we highly recommend putting the love into a clasp bottle (the kind you utilise for condiments). It makes the procedure super quick and like shooting fish in a barrel, and probably a lot less messy.

It also helps to heat the squeeze canteen of love in the microwave or under running warm h2o for a few seconds. This just helps to make your honey more than pourable and easier to work with.

When your squeeze bottle is prepare, put the tip into the open end of the straw. Holding the harbinger and the squeeze bottle at an angle, gently clasp the beloved so that it slides down the side of the harbinger towards the sealed end. If you hold the squeeze canteen and the harbinger straight upright, you lot'll nigh probable terminate upwardly with air bubbling in your honey. (Air bubbling aren't necessarily bad, they just accept upwards space, which means at that place will exist less space in the straw for honey.)

Fill the straw with honey until the dearest is about an inch from the end of the straw.

Stride 3: Seal The Other End

And so identify the open end of the harbinger into the vacuum sealer and seal it closed. That's it!

The corporeality of honey that each honey stick contains will vary based on the kind of straw you choose. If yous're curious, merely squeeze the honey out of ane of your sticks and measure how much honey was in it. Then you can decide if you want more or less honey in your honey sticks! If y'all want more than, apply a bigger straw. If you desire less, use a smaller straw, or cut your straws down to the appropriate size.

The advantage of knowing how much honey is in each stick is that you lot can use them in recipes. Squeezing a love stick is a lot less messy than measuring out honey with a tablespoon! Or you could also get in so that each of your love sticks holds the perfect amount to sweeten up a cup of tea. They're easy to take on the become, and so you can accept your favorite dear at the prepare anytime!

I think these honey sticks would brand such a cute gift! Especially for the tea lover in your life. :-) Make several honey sticks, with either high-quality local dear or a mix of different flavored honeys to brand things more interesting! Tie the sticks together with some twine, then wrap the sticks up with a cute mug and a nice box of tea. What an easy-to-make and heartfelt souvenir!