r/eatityoufuckingcoward • u/Artistic_Hand_775 • 8d ago

Is this mold or is it crystallizing?

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u/swamper2008 8d ago

Not mold. Sugar content of honey is too high for mold to form.

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u/ResponsibilityLast38 8d ago

Seconded.

Honey is particularly hostile to the growth of most microbes. The ones that can grow in it are ones you will almost never see visual signs of, such as botulism. Even with botulism, it's quite unlikely to exist in enough concentration to make adults sick, but it can be very, very bad for babies. This is why we dont feed honey to babies.

I should note that honey is hostile to the growth of microbes, but microbes and spores can still survive in honey. Honey that is watered down becomes a great growing medium for microbes. For example yeast, which can be introduced to watered down honey to induce fermentation to make mead. I have a few bottles of such intentionally spoiled honey in my fridge right now. :)

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u/No-Needleworker-241 8d ago

Seems healthy

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u/Silky_Rat 8d ago

It’s fucking honey, dude.

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u/PhysicalDruggie 5d ago

Fucking honey you say? I found a r/honeyfuckers

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u/Silky_Rat 5d ago

Listen, I respect that hustle, but you’re in too deep

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u/ImFat_LetsParty98 5d ago

How I really thought that would be an “oops doesn’t exist”…. It’s my fault for having eyes, really.

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u/Arctic_x22 2d ago

56,000 members 😐

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u/PhysicalDruggie 1d ago

I’ve heard of it once on a Acai video and he said something along the lines of “don’t look at r/honeyfuckers” and I got curious, now my retinas are burned with images of bees. Whenever someone says anything about fucking honey, I just refer them to the subreddit and let them be as scarred as I was.

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u/ryanshields0118 8d ago

Bear lookin like he's seen some shit

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u/BeautifulAvailable80 8d ago

Hell yeah. Bwahahaha

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u/Fillmore80 8d ago

Honey doesn't go bad.

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u/TinkyThePirate 8d ago

This is a myth and honey can absolutely spoil. In an absolutely sterile environment sure, but nobody's home is - contaminents will find their way in over time, just much longer than other shelf products

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u/ciboires 8d ago

Not saying it can’t but didn’t they find honey in an Egyptian tomb that was still good after a few thousand years ?

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u/Nar__whal 7d ago

The sugar content of honey is too high. This means that most, if not all moisture inside the honey isn’t available for microorganisms to use. Without water they can’t grow. If you add moisture, it could start being a problem. This is why it needs to be stored correctly to stay good for that long (the 1000 year old Egyptian honey was stored well and in a place with little moisture). Honey also has antimicrobial properties due to enzymatic hydrogen peroxide production (although there are bacteria that can resist H2O2).

Honey can be dangerous to children because of Botulinum spores that can survive basically anything and start to grow under anoxic conditions (like the inside of a sealed jar, never make your own jelly). Botulinum produces Botulinum toxin (botox), a neurotoxin that will kill you in extremely low doses (1.3-2.1 ng/kg).

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u/Illustrious-Ranger30 7d ago

I'm picturing a Narwhal wearing an ear mic! Thank you, good sir. *This is an important Ted Talk at that.

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u/TinkyThePirate 7d ago

just looked into that and damn that's interesting. They did a very good job of preserving it haha. So yeah if you cross all your i's and dot all your t's you can keep it from spoiling. Now I want to try that honey..

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u/Illustrious-Ranger30 7d ago

So long as it's totally sealed. If not, microbes will get into it.

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u/idontknowxoxx 8d ago

just crystallizing☺️

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u/Curious_Carpenter190 8d ago

The bear is growing fur.

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u/GladSuccotash8508 7d ago

Honey shouldn’t and almost never would get moldy. Unless it’s just a honey container and it is being sold as Honey but it’s not Honey. It’s probably crystallization unless there’s some sort of contamination but regardless Honey has a pretty much infinite shelf life as far as I understand.

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u/aggelikiwi 7d ago

Good honey trends to sugarize as we say in Greece, it is a sign of is pure, I've seen whole jars crystallised and it is actually delicious, it means it's pure

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u/AxeInCasey 7d ago

Impossible (if not excessively impossible) for honey to mold

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u/Germainshalhope 7d ago

50% of honey in the US market is "watered down" with other syrups so yeah it is possible.

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u/diverareyouokay 6d ago

Honey doesn’t mold. It was actually used to disinfect wounds way back when thanks to its antimicrobial properties. Eat it. you could always heat the honey in a pot of hot water.

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u/BeardedPokeDragon 8d ago

That's a floating hamster. Let him out.

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u/Spare_Race287 7d ago

You Sound like my wife

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u/_AlwaysWatching_ 7d ago

looks crispy

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u/SoepjesKoekjes 8d ago

Looks like a trapped mouse to me.