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I’m going to be honest.
I wasn’t expecting to harvest any honey. We are kinda late on all our bees maintenance this year and I hadn’t even thought about how we were going to harvest the honey and what we were going to do with it once we did.
Bo collected 5 frames and sent me to the house, dripping with each step I took.
Once I got them in the kitchen and in a roasting pan. I looked at him and asked what I was supposed to do with them.
He then looked at me and said to Google it 
After I gave him a look of ‘really’, he then proceeded to give me some ideas and suggested I go to the famous YouTube to find an answer.
That’s where I found that I would be able to simply scrape the frames into a filter that would separate the wax from the honey.
The videos I saw showed a large paint filter placed in a large food grade bucket. I didn’t have any of the paint filters but I did have some cheesecloth.
It worked well enough, but I was feeling like I wanted to filter the honey one more time. My first cheesecloth wasn’t a tight knit and some of the wax had gone through the holes when I was straining it.
The next day I was digging around in the same drawer and found another cheesecloth that was made tighter.
With the girls helping hold corners of the cheesecloth, we were able to filter the honey into a food grade bucket and keep most of the wax out ( a little accidentally dropped her corner at the end and some wax got into the bucket 
).
The next step I took was to tie all the wax I had already separated into the current cheesecloth and tie it closed.
I then put that into a pan with water and set the burner to low heat. By doing this I was able to keep any garbage in the cloth while the wax seeped through.
Once the water had warmed the honey and wax through, I then took out the cheesecloth and let the pan cool.
The wax solidified at the top of the pan ( much like fat does when you cook a roast then put it in the fridge).
The next thing you can do is remelt the clean wax and make smaller pieces of it. This is great to use in projects. To remelt the wax, put it in a clean heat safe bowl and put it in a pot of water. Boil the water to melt the wax, like a double boiler would do.
After the wax is melted you can pour it into a small silicone muffin tins. Those sizes will be much more manageable when trying to make salves, candles or lip balms.
To watch the girls and I working through the process of separating the honey check out our YouTube video.