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HONEY KNIFE [5 records]

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Record 1 2021-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Equipment
  • Beekeeping
CONT

An electric uncapping knife is used to cut through the wax cappings so that the honey can be extracted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel agricole
  • Élevage des abeilles
CONT

Pour extraire le miel des alvéoles, on retranche les opercules de cire à l'aide d'un couteau électrique à désoperculer.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Beekeeping
CONT

Uncapping is the first real step of honey processing. It consists of the removal of the thin wax layer that seals the honey cells. The wax caps can be sliced off with a sharp, thin, long knife or special knives heated by steam or electricity... In comb harvesting the equivalent step is the comb selection(eliminating pieces of comb with pollen or even brood-somenthing that should already have been done during harvesting) the removal of bees etc. and the subsequent thorough mashing of combs. Processing proceeds further by either leting this wax and honey mixture separate by dripping through a screen(strainer) or by pressing it in special honey presses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Élevage des abeilles
CONT

À l'automne, l'apiculteur tue la colonie soit par asphyxie soit par le feu et récupère les rayons. Il utilise un pressoir à miel pour séparer le miel de la cire.

CONT

Amélioration des techniques de récolte, d'extraction et de conditionnement par l'introduction de matériels apicoles appropriés (enfumoirs, combinaisons, presse à miel ...).

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Beekeeping
DEF

An implement with a sharp blade usually heated by steam, hot water or electricity to remove the cappings from combs before extracting.

CONT

After the bees have evaporated the water until the honey is of the desired consistency and sealed in the cells, the combs are removed, the cells uncapped [the wax caps are taken off] with the uncapping knife, and the honey extracted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Élevage des abeilles
DEF

Couteau à lame, droite ou courbée à son extrémité, affûtée des deux côtés (pour gauchers ou droitiers), à tranchant lisse ou dentelé et destiné à ôter les opercules de cire qui ferment les alvéoles pleines de miel.

OBS

L'emploi de couteaux chauffants (à la vapeur, à l'électricité) rend plus facile ce travail.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Herramientas manuales
  • Cría de abejas
CONT

[...] el cuchillo desoperculador en frío, [...] no altera las propiedades de la miel porque no existe un calentamiento de la misma.

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Record 4 2003-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Beekeeping
  • Sugar Industry
DEF

A sweet viscid fluid, of various shades from nearly white to deep golden, being the nectar of flowers collected and worked up for food by certain insects, esp. the honey-bee.

PHR

Honey of borax.

PHR

Honey-heavy, honey-laden.

PHR

Honey bike, brake,-cake, colour,-crock,-cup, drink,-harvest,-knife,-mead,-pore,-scale,-shop,-time, wine.

PHR

Honey-coloured, -hearted, -lipped, -loaded, -steeped, -mouthed, -stored, -wooled.

PHR

Honey agaric, ant, -apple, -baby, -badger, -bag, -balm, banana, -basket, -bearer, -beer, -berry, -blob, -bloom, -bottle, -bread, -bucket, -bun, -bunch, -cell, -cherry, chile, -creeper, -dresser, -extractor, -fall, -farmer, -flow, -fly, fungus, -garlic, -gate, -gatherer, -gilding, -gland, -gold, -holder, -hunter, -kite, -locust, -lotus, -maker, -man, -mark, -meal, -mesquit, -moth, -mouse, mushroom, -pear, -people, -plant, -pod, possum, -rore, -soap, -sop, -spot, -stalks, -stomach, -sucker, -tear, -tube, -ware, -water, -week, -wood, -words, -worker.

PHR

Honey-bearing, -dropping, -eating, -flowing, -gathering, -making, -secreting, -storing, -yielding.

PHR

Borax, clover, corn, heather, stone, wood honey.

PHR

Clarified honey.

PHR

Live, unripe, virgin, white, wild honey.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Substance sirupeuse et sucrée, de couleur ambrée, que les abeilles élaborent dans leur jabot avec le nectar des fleurs ou d'autres matières végétales, et qu'elles dégorgent dans des alvéoles de cire pour la nourriture de leur communauté.

CONT

Les abeilles vont chercher le nectar des fleurs pour le convertir en miel.

PHR

Fourmi, mouche à miel.

PHR

Bonbon, préparation pharmaceutique au miel.

PHR

Couleur, gâteau, goût, jatte, parfum, pot de miel.

PHR

Douceur, production du miel.

PHR

Miel rosat, violat.

PHR

Miel de Narbonne, du Gâtinais; miel des fleurs.

PHR

Sentir le miel; séparer le miel de la cire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Cría de abejas
  • Industria azucarera
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Record 5 1997-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Kitchen Utensils

French

Domaine(s)
  • Batterie de cuisine

Spanish

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