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    How long does it take to crystallize honey?
    David Williams
    Beekeeper & Bee Removal Specialist
    David Williams is a Professional Beekeeper and Bee Removal Specialist with over 28 years of beekeeping experience. He is the Owner of Bzz Bee Removal, a bee removal company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bzz Bee Removal locates, captures, and transports bees to local beekeepers to prevent colony collapse disorder.
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    It's hard to determine the exact time, but keeping your honey in the fridge will help your honey crystallize faster.
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    How long does pure raw honey take to crystallize?
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    Depends on a lot of things: temperature, humidity, and light, for example. All honey will crystallize, but this is OK. You can eat it like candy, or if you submerge in warm water for awhile and shake it up, it will re-liquefy. Honey lasts forever unless it gets contaminated, and has a great many uses.
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    Why won't filtered honey work?
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    Crystals can form faster when they have something to grab onto. In unfiltered honey, tiny bits of pollen, wax, or other debris is present for the crystals to use as a base and start growing. Filtration removes a lot of that debris, meaning the crystals don't have an easy place to start. This will dramatically reduce the rate of crystallization in filtered honey.
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    Can you just leave the honey out to crystallize or do you have to refrigerate it? I've already left it out for a day but it hasn't crystallized.
    Boba_mellow
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    You can refrigerate it for it to work with 1-2 teaspoons of water (that might help to make it crystallize faster).
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