 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another food-related video. Now if you recall, if you recall, about three years ago back in 2016 or so, I think it was winter 2016, it would have been around the same period, right? What we did, we put out a video where I was showing you sort of jarring about 20 pounds of honey and in previous videos to that, one of them being the video where we made the honey chocolate chip cookies, right? During that video as well, and I would have mentioned before in other food videos, that every year what we end up doing is basically, for the last five years anyway or so, what we've been doing is buying some local honey, right? So we know some people that, you know, they get their hands on some honey organic raw unfiltered honey, right? And it's a local, so what we end up doing is every year around this time fall basically, we end up buying a yearly supply of our honey, and that's exactly what we ended up doing this year, which is all the buckets that you see behind me. And this year we bought a lot actually, because we ended up giving a lot of it away as presents and I sort of went ballistic making those honey chocolate chip cookies, the video that we made making those ones. And actually one of the first things I did was make a batch as soon as we got this honey, make a new batch of honey chocolate chip cookies, and this is the last piece that's left, right? So this is what we end up doing and there's a little bit of crumbles there I'm going to eat. So I made one tray of the Speedy Gonzales as soon as we got the honey, right? But what I want to do right now is basically before the honey sort of solidifies, because if you get if you get your hands on good honey, good raw honey, what it's going to do, initially it might be liquid when you get it, but what it's going to do is going to harden up, it's going to crystallize, right? It's basically, here let me show you this, it basically ends up being like this, right? It solidifies, right? And that's the sound of a good honey when it does that. You know it's nice, organic, got lots of nutrients. Other honey that you buy, some of the other ones they don't crystallize as much. If you notice this one, this one is actually a few years older I think. This one is from last year, but this one we've kept sort of jarred little ones here, let me show you this. So these ones have sort of solidified, right? So we got these ones and we give these ones this little presence, sort of stuffing presence to little guys, right? But before the honey solidifies, right, becomes like this, you know, let me bring out a spoon, let me show it to you. So you see it's using this little spoon. Take a look at this. So before it turns to like this, what I want to do is fill up some jars, right? In the previous honey video that we put out, we basically jarred 20 pounds of honey and what we ended up doing this year, we bought we bought 125 pounds of honey, we bought 25, five pound buckets, right? And we have like right now we've got three left over from last year that are solid like this, right? So before these things solidify, what I want to do is jar some of this honey, because over the year what we ended up doing is we give honey as present, right? Because food is, you would have heard me say this before, food is one of the greatest gifts you can give anyone, right? And for us, because we get our hands on fantastic honey, really, it's delicious honey, right? We can get our hands on this and a lot of people can't that we know, right? They live in big cities or they don't live near farms or they don't have the connections that we have. They really appreciate, for the last four years, five years or so we've done this, they really appreciate getting jars of honey. And what I have right now is this is basically what we have left of four jars from previous years and this is the last bit of honey that we have jarred, the little four jars. So what I want to do is I want to jar some different sizes of honey, right? One of the jars we have is like this, I have another box of these. I got most likely I'll do eight of these, okay, because we got eight of these guys. We got a couple of smaller versions, right? We got 125 ml, we got, I believe this is a 250 ml and we got some 500 ml that I would also like to jar. Now, I don't think we're going to jar all of it. Last time we did what I ended up jarring was basically 20 pounds in that video, right? So 20 pounds will be four of these buckets. I might do more, I might do less, I'm not 100% sure. Most likely I'll still do 20 pounds. With 20 pounds, basically jarring 20 pounds of honey and these little guys were part of it. I did those later on. I don't know if I included in that video. But basically, jarring that honey gave us enough gifts to give to people for a good year and a half or so, okay, plus and minus. So in the last year, we're sort of lazy about things, we're busy. The last year's batch of honey that we got, we didn't end up jarring it right away. It crystallized, right? Became like this. It was harder to jar from this and we don't want to really heat it up to jar it because, you know, you might, some people say you might lose some of the nutrients in there, right? So we didn't want to heat it up so we didn't give us much honey last year. This year we want to go ballistic giving honey, okay? That's a long intro to this video because what this video is about is just about jarring honey, okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start jarring some honey and I thought you would, you know, it'd be fun to make a video. You'd like to see what it is that I'm doing. I've cracked open one of these already. They basically end up being sealed and this one, I cracked the seal. I made the tray of honey chocolate chip cookies from this one and when it's not sealed, you know, when it's not broken, it's got the seal in it, right? That thing like that, okay? So what we're going to do is we're going to jar the honey here and I'm going to grab some more and we're going to break the seals and start jarring them, okay? And here, let me show you. Let me show you. And the honey, I'm going to do this. Make sure it doesn't, I don't know if you can see it. You see that? It's going to, you'll see it when it comes out. It's more liquid. It's dropped down a little bit because I used at least a cup. I think a cup to use to make the chocolate chip cookies. But we'll end up just jarring these. Let me put this here. Let me put my glasses to one side. Let's take this honey here. We'll put this guy over here. And I have my tea going as well, right? The sip of tea. And since we did the liqueur video, I've sort of been going through the tasting, the liqueur that we had, right? This one is the Cornelian cherry, the stronger flavor one. You just put a cube of ice and pour Cornelian cherry liqueur on top of it. It cools it down, dilutes a little bit. It's sharp. It's nice. So let's start jarring some honey. Let's start jarring these guys first, okay? This size. And what I have is, I have a sort of a plate here. So it captures any honey just in case it spills it. I don't want to do this. I want to put out a napkin here too. Just so we don't get that jingling sound. I usually don't put a napkin, but because we're shooting the video for this, I don't want the plate sound to go be too annoying, right? And I have different size. This is honey. It's nice and liquid right now. This is going to solidify, crystallize within the next few months, right? And when it crystallizes, we basically eat it or not. We don't heat it up unless we're using it for cooks and stuff, right? So what I'm going to do, I have bigger spoons in this, but since I haven't done this in a year, I want to make sure I don't do any spillages right off the bat. Sometimes we end up having spillages, right? And it is beautiful color and really, it tastes fantastic. And if you have allergies, one thing people recommend is to eat local honey, because when the bees pollinate the flowers and whatnot, and oh, we had spillage. I'm going to put this on a little plate. Spillage on the first go. Let's bring a wet rag to this. We're just going to wipe this away. And you wet this as well. And just give it a wipe, which is good enough. Your hands just don't get sticky when you're handling it. And what I'm going to do, I'm just going to close the lid on this. Good enough. Maybe I should have given the top a wipe too. Should we do that? Yeah, let's give the top a wipe as well. That way, whoever gets this jar as a present, they don't get sticky right away, right? So that's one jar. Let's put this guy here. Let's do more. What I'm going to do is, because this guy, the honey's already on it, I'm going to close this up. I'm going to get rid of this. Put it on the side here. Here we'll put it there. And get distracted by looking at the video, looking at the camera. Let's do one more. One more, these guys. And I have a little plate set up here where I'm putting the spoon that's honey on the plate. And then later on, the honey builds up there, and you eat that, right? You're not going to waste that one. Don't waste honey. Closed. Playing with fire. That there. And we've got one more jar filled, right? I like these jars. They're pretty. So let's do all of these guys. So that's three jars. Where is our lid? That's four. Don't know how much these, how much these guys hold. Get on it. We've got a nice assembly line system going now. I think this bucket can do one more. It's almost empty. And what we end up doing is just using a spatula when it gets to the stage. And then just pouring it all on using a spatula, which I might do right now. I might as well instead of having empty buckets sitting around. So let's grab a spatula, right? So all I do is just scrape around the side. Usually use, if the spatula is rounded, I use this side, the sharp ridge to get the bottom part, right? We get it like that, and we just let it drip. Bring it with the spatula in. That's good for now. I'll take care of the rest of this later. When we get the rest of the buckets going. So let's put this guy here over now. Okay. And I do have these guys here. We'll put the spatula in there too. Okay. And we have this as well. So let's grab this as well. Whatever was in the plate. Almost, almost. We got the spatula there and our spoon here. And that's basically a full jar. Right. So let's close this one out. So we've got six of these ones out of a one pound or five pound bucket, right? And I had used about a cup for making the chocolate chip cookies, the honey chocolate chip cookies we did. So I'm assuming around seven of these would make five pounds of honey. Okay. Seven or eight because we've eaten some too. Probably seven or eight. Right. So what I need to do is crack this one open, right? Right there. And I have a knife here. So I'm just gonna use the knife that I have here. Right. So let me show you this. All I do is just put the knife in the crack, right in the seal there and try to break that. It's nicely sealed. Okay. And this guy comes off. Right. So what we end up doing. Now opening this is sometimes hard. It's sealed up, right. So it's tight. So sorry about the noise. Okay. That's the lid for the other one. We'll put the lid here. Okay. Let me show you this. Don't have any spillage. It's coming off the ledge at the edge of the bucket. So what we're going to do is just keep on doing what we're doing. Right. Just fill up more jars. We've got two more in these guys. So let's do these guys because they're pretty jars and I've washed all of these. Right. So you do want the jars to be sterile. With honey it's, honey is used as a preservative as well. Right. So it's not like jams when we made the jam crab apple butter crab apple jam that we made. You really have to sterilize the jars. Right. With honey you don't need to go to that level as long as they're washed. They're okay. All right. Don't you have to heat up the jars or spillage here and we took it down here. Looks like every, the first jar we fell out with each bucket so far we had a little bit of spillage overfilling. So there give our hands a little wipe because we don't want to make everything sticky. And this is a clean rag light that we picked the cabinet. So put that there. Let's put the lid on it. Let's do one more. But what I want to do is I'm going to retire this napkin. It's got some honey on it. So I don't want the bottoms to become sticky. Let's give our hands a little wipe. Now if we weren't shooting the video I'd probably do this right by the sink. So you just wash everything up. But since we're doing the video we're sort of taking extra measures to keep things non-sticky and clean and make the clean up a lot easier, right? That's one of the tricks of doing work in the kitchen. You want to clean as you go and be as clean as possible with the work you do because it makes the cleanup that much easier. Really. One of the reasons I found that most people or a lot of people you know they like eating out. They don't cook at home too much is because the cleanup missed so much honey on that one. Oh my, oh my. Lift this up. Look at that. Look at the waste of honey. Well, that can't be wasted. That has to be eaten by Chih-choh. Well, let me grab a spoon. Without a doubt. Grab this. This here. Scoop this up with the napkin because it's just napkin. It's clean. We definitely have to retire this napkin. But we're going to give this a wipe. And then afterwards, once I do all the jars, I'll probably give all the jars a little wipe with a rag that's been under warm water, right? With the hands a little wipe. Give the rag, make it a little bit more wet over the lid. Here's the lid. Let's put this back on. I'll have to give this one a wipe. I'm going to put it a little bit on the side. Okay. And let's do this using too many napkins. I usually don't do this, but it is what it is. We'll be, we'll go nice and slow on the next few ones, right? So we don't have any spillage. Now, these are the harder ones to do. Check this out. This jar is smaller than this, right? Take a look. So the smaller the jar, the harder to fill it up with a bigger spiller, right? So what I'm going to do, I am still going to use this big spoon or medium-sized spoon. I have one spoon that's bigger than this. Take a look. I brought the spoon out there too, right? For the jars that have really big lids, I use these guys. Sometimes when I'm, you know, more pressed for time and by the sink, what I end up doing is using the big spoon. So if I have a spillage, it's easier to do, easier to clean up. Stuffer. So we've got three of these sizes, right? Here's two. Little guy, little guy. Little guy, medium guy, bigger guy, right? So let's put this guy here. And we've got one more of these. A little bit of spillage so we can give it a little wipe and check this out. I got one more of these little guys. Little, little. So we'll give these guys two. This one's going to be like half a spoonful or something. These little guys would be given with something else as well, right? Maybe cookies. Honey chocolate cookies. Now, since we're doing a little guys, let's do these guys as opposed to these guys, right? Let's close this guy up. Nice. Seriously, who wouldn't want to get this? Organic, raw, unpasteurized, unfiltered, local honey. Local to my ear anyway. And did we say, did we finish our thought? Supposedly, if you have allergies, it's good to eat local honey, right? Because bees, when they pollinate, they grab all the pollen and stuff like this, so your body slowly gets introduced to the pollen so it doesn't react. Allergies don't kick in. One-stop shopping, right? Get the honey, but it's presence all year around. The only people that I've ever met that don't eat honey are vegan because we're purist vegan. I forget what the name is, where they don't eat any animal byproducts. Honey is made by animals, right? So we've got all the little guys filled up. Let's do some of the bigger guys. And for the bigger guys, let's do it with pouring it in. Let's see if we can do this. Here's a knife. Now, what we're going to do, we're going to pour it in, right? I'm going to use the knife and it fills it up faster. Oh, we had a little bit of spill here. Let me give that a wipe. I'm going to grab a new rag as well from the cupboard. Let's throw that there. So this one's done. Easy. Let's wet this guy. So we have the wet rag ready. If we need it, it's okay. Put that. Let's do some more. Is this enough to fill one? A knife handy, just in case. Just in case. I need the spatula for the rest of this. So let's do the spatula. Here's the spatula because this can fill this up too. The rest of this, right? If you see. So that's that one. And this one I'm going to clean up later. Put this guy here. Let's close this lid here. That's good. That's honey. Let's grab another one. So that's 10 pounds of honey so far we've gone through. Let me grab one more knife and again break the seal. Where is it? Here's our seal. Gotta break that. Okay. Let's put the knife here. We'll use for the next ones. And it's going to be loud. My apologies. Bounce buckets of honey, right? Now this one, because it's a lot, if I do a pour, I can't control it and the jar is not big enough to handle at all. I'm going to do it with a serious spillage. I'm going to do some big ones after this one because we definitely want some of the bigger ones as well. All depends on the occasion, right? And this one we're going to pour. Gives us more room for air, right? That's basically right up to the rim, or right up to where the threads of the jar began, right? Nice. We can do a mid-sized one. Let's do a mid-sized one. This should fill this, we see. So that's almost to the end. I'll take care of this later. Okay. I'm going to put the lid on this. Put this guy here. And let's put the knife down. And let's close this guy up. And let's crack open another one, right? Let's break the seal so I can see it myself. I don't want to go. Easier to do this way. So let's open this again. Again. It's going to be loud. We're going to do it with a spoon at first. Turning this sideways, full bakara honey. Might be a little dangerous to do this. I'm going to bring out the big guns for this one. Round it. Let's see. I have another plate set up here. I was expecting to break out. Bring out the big guns, right? Let's put this here. Let's grab one from the back. I don't know if you'll be able to see it. You want this one is darker than this one, right? And this one was from another bucket, right? So the odds are this bucket, I believe it's lower down or earlier. I'm not sure how it works. Someone that knows honey better than me can comment, can let us know which one it is. This one is darker than this. It could be the pollen that the bees were eating on. It could be the time of year it was harvested. It was an early batch or later batch. I'm not 100% sure. But there is a color difference. My guess is darker is probably just different pollen, different time of season where the bees had access to different types of flowers. So let's do it. It's going to be more than this, but we do it for now. Much is left in this. You know what? There's this much left in this. I'm going to take care of this later as well. That way I can do it by the sink. So we've gone through basically 20 pounds of honey so far. A little bit less because of I already used up some of the other one. I'm just going to break the seal again. Let's keep on going with the big guys, because we do give out the big guys a lot, right? We have a lot of friends that love. This one is a darker type. Here's the light one. Here's the dark one. Of all these jars, I don't know. Definitely make the cure from this instead of using sugar, using honey. A little wash. There's a wipe with the rack and seal it up. Much is left here. Let's see. This will fill up one of these guys for sure. So let's fill up one of the middle guys. There'll be some left over too, most likely. This here, we're going to give this a wipe. And there's a little bit left in there. I'm going to take care of there for now. And let's close off this guy. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to grab another rack. I'm going to wet it a little bit. I'm just going to give the bucket a little wipe. So we know there's no honey left on there. And what we're going to do is we're going to crack open another one. So we've gone through five buckets so far, right? Let's do one more. Let's use the big guy. The big guy, here's the big guy plate, right? It's got lots of honey on there. So what I'm going to do is pour it in there for now. This one's a little bit more solid. So it might have been sitting in. The bucket's longer. It might have been harvested earlier. And this one's on the lighter side. That's good. Let me bring over this guy. So you see. So this is what we just filled up. This is the other one. Take a look. Lighter, darker. Much lighter, right? Is it compatible to the other light one? Let's take it out. Yeah, they're about the same. So the buckets vary. That's cool. Again, if you know why the colors would be different, let us know. Different time of year would correspond to different types of flowers available, right? To a taste test of the dark versus the light as well. Just to see. You guys are curious to see which one's what? Let's bring out a spoon. Let me see if I can tell you which ones. The tastes are different, right? So this is light. Fantastic. And this is the dark. So let me just try out the dark. This is more liquid. Sweetness for this is a little different than the sweetness for this. I'm not sure, but it is a little different. It is a little different. We've got four more of these jars left. And by the way, these guys, these fruits, these persimmons, these ones, there's two different types. There's a small ones that they're still sweet. They're still good to eat. If they're hard, these ones, you want them to be really, really squishy, really, really squishy when you eat them. What you can do when they're totally squishy, like really, you could go squirts out, right? You can cut the top, the skin, and then eat it with the spoon. And if it's not super squishy, like almost, like really just not liquid, but to the point of being completely overdone, that's the way you eat it. And if you want to eat it before that, you can cut it up into slices and eat it. Usually cut it up into four pieces, right? Should we pour this one in? We can. Let's do it. Let's pour this one in too. This is going to do about half of this. Let's do about half of it. Let's use the spatula. That's almost gone. I'll take care of this later as well. That's our sixth bucket. And I have the spoon here. So let's fill the rest of this jar with what was on the plate, right? One more bucket. I think this is our last bucket that we're going to do because we're out of jars. Actually, I do have a little bit more here, but that's a good supply of honey for years worth of presents anyway, right? And for some people, we give them straight out big buckets for special occasion. It's going to be loud, I think so anyway. We do, we do bring these out. It's a little bit of honey spillage here. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to flip this over that way. The bottom of the jar is not going to get all sticky by the honey, right? Just makes less work for later. And this is the darker because the honey is a little bit looser, a little bit lighter. I don't think the color difference is related to how solid or how liquid the honey is. I don't think so anyway. We need the poo. I really don't care the color of the honey as long as it's good honey. The color difference. Let me bring it close. Look at this. From the same cellar, same beekeeper, right? From the same, I don't know if you call them bee farms, but from the same farm. I think this being more liquid than the other one sort of throws me off working with the harder one as opposed to the less mischus one. Five of these guys left. So this guy's almost done. Again, I'm going to put that aside. Deal with it later. And this one's done. So let me close off this one. Okay. And let's close this off. I've got four more of those guys. Let's break this seal. I didn't think we're going to do it all. So we got seven buckets. This is the eighth bucket. So it's going to be eight and a bit. So eight times five is 40. So it's going to be 40 and these are 250 mils. So 40 and a bit. We'll call this, we'll call this video, the last video we called jarring 20 pounds of honey. This video will call jarring 40 pounds of honey. We got seven. Oh, actually it won't be 40 pounds because we've done six. This is the eighth one. So seven times 35, jarring 35 pounds of honey. Again, this one lighter than the other one. Not much, a little bit. We'll put the jars there. On the side there, there's the honey spilt with our presents for the year. Team this size. Okay. 14, 250 mil. Five, 150 mil. Two of these ones. Or 125 mil. I think this is 125 too. So we have two of these guys. So you can call that seven to 125 mil. I think we did just one of these guys, little guys. 50 mil maybe. Eight of these ones. And I think these would be 250 mil maybe. Same size as this. These two maybe. So eight of those ones. And two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, thirteen, seven and a half buckets of honey, which makes it about seven times five is 35 pounds and a half. So it's about 37 and a half pounds of honey. That's what we ended up doing. I hope you enjoyed and I hope you get your hands on some delicious, delicious honey. And I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.