Weird Ways to Eat Honey
How do you eat honey? Drizzled over hot buttery toast or crunchy granola? Whizzed up in a smoothie or protein shake? Mixed into a cake? Straight from the jar?!
Honey is sticky, sweet and delicious, and lends itself well to a healthy breakfast and tempting sweet treats. But it’s also devilishly versatile, and can be used in a multitude of ways you may not have even considered. It’s even made it to the dizzying heights of a viral TikTok trend!
So let’s take a look at the more unusual ways we can eat honey…
Sweet and Spicy
While honey is a great sweetener for cakes, muffins and biscuits, did you know it pairs amazingly with chilli?
Apparently originating in the hipster pizza joints of New York, hot honey (as in spicy and mixed with chilli flakes) is being used as a dressing and dip for pizzas and crusts in all the pizzerias worth being seen in. UK supermarket Waitrose is getting in on the action by stocking a peperoni pizza with a hot honey drizzle.
Numerous trending restaurants are now also infusing honey with chilli powder and using it to jazz up grilled meat dishes and vegetable sides. We’ve also seen chilli infused honey dressings on cheese platters and alongside baked camembert and BBQed halloumi – even in cocktails, and we’ll drink to that!
Homemade Frozen Honey
Frozen honey has made an appearance as a viral TikTok trend a few times. To freeze honey, TikTokers recommend squeezing it into an empty plastic water bottle, inverting it, and leaving it in the freezer for at least four hours.
Each example we’ve seen uses cheap, supermarket honey in squeezy bottles, so we’re unsure why it has to be transferred from one plastic bottle to another, but it probably makes for a good watch. We also don’t recommend consuming mass produced cheap honey, as it doesn’t have the same health benefits as active, healing honey such as Necta & Hive high TA Jarrah and Marri honeys and the majority of it is adulterated with even cheaper sugar syrups.
That aside, the result of freezing honey is a chewy, fudge like honey, so thick and unctuous that it can be snipped with scissors as it’s squeezed out of the bottle! It could be tempting to eat a little too much at once, which could cause a stomach upset, so try squeezing small bite size dollops of high quality honey onto a baking tray and freezing, if you’d like to try the trend.
Whip it Up!
Have you ever heard of whipped honey? No? We thought so! Another new trend, whipping honey adds tiny air bubbles, creating a lighter, creamier honey that can be spread more easily.
Whipping honey works best with honey that’s started to crystallise and form tiny crystals. (Crystallisation is a perfectly natural process for honey and by no means suggests that it’s started to spoil.) To whip honey, add half a jar or so to a food mixer and whisk on high speed for 10 to 15 minutes. You’ll notice the honey change from golden and clear, to a creamy off white mixture that can then be used in any of the traditional ways you may have already tried honey.
What’s Your Favourite Honey Recipe?
Spicy, frozen, whipped? Something else weird and wonderful? Or are you more of a traditionalist when it comes to honey, enjoying it on bread or with yoghurt? We’d love to know!
