Hi

Dose anyone know if that honey in Sam song bottles you can buy on the street is 100% real or mixed with other stuff?

Thanks

My partner says that it's rubbish, probably at least 50% sugar water.

Yes that what I was thinking at that price

If you want to try a really great honey produced here then get a bottle of honey from Jim Thompson farm. We buy ours from the Jim Thomson outlet outside the main gate at Khao Yai NP. You can check their website for other sales locations: www.jimthompsonfarm.com Price is B90 per bottle.

Edited July 24, 201510 yr by Spaniel

Just because it is in recycled bottles doesn't mean it is necessarily bad - although much of it is.

Up north some of the best honey I've ever tasted came from villages where they collected wild honey and bottled it themselves.

Agreement with Jinger have had many a bottle of honey good quality or the bees knees 1 could say also enjoy drinking the contents of sam song bottles equally as much.

Maybe someone can tell us how to do a check on whether it is the real thing or just bolstered up honey with tons of sugary syrup?

^^^^^, watched this very thing the other day.

Guys rocks up on a motorcycle, has a beehive in a plastic bag.

Has a sieve and a load of empty one litre whisky bottles.

Going rate in Bkk is 250 baht per bottle.

Anyway to answer your question, I watched as a local pulled out a match, dipped it in the honey and then lit the match.

He explained to me, if it was water, the match wouldnt have lit.

I dont know the veracity of his explanation, just what I witnesed, but the locals bought the lot.

Maybe someone can tell us how to do a check on whether it is the real thing or just bolstered up honey with tons of sugary syrup?

Shake the bottle

Good honey will not move like Liquid

Edited July 24, 201510 yr by swampdonkey

Ants wont go for real pure honey unless sugar has been added to it. Honey should not be gritty either as the grit is added sugar. dump a little out and let it sit then feel for grit.....Just because a jar states100%real honey doesnt mean that its not got anything added.

If I see Thai honey coming out of the hive I will believe it is pure. Otherwise it's surely been messed about with.

Even the local honey sold in supermarkets is dubious as far as I'm concerned.

Trust no one.