Tips for Using Wax

How to melt your beeswax after you've  checked your bees and harvested your honey

• Solar wax melters 

• double boilers (do not bring wax to an actual boil, just melt it)

• a crock pot ($5 at Goodwill !) 

Steps:

• freeze the wax before using it

• place wax in a cheesecloth or fine paint strainer etc. to remove any possible bee parts, or other things you do not want in your wax. 

• if using a crock pot, fill with water and set bag/ strainer of wax in/ above the water. Hot wax will settle in the water and remove the strainer with the other bits. Let the water/ wax cool and you have a clean disc of wax