Brilio.net - Honey is often used as a sweetener for food or drinks. This ingredient has a thick and distinctive sweet taste. In addition to being a sweetener, honey is also often used as a traditional medicine because it has many benefits for the body when consumed.
Honey is often used as a business field because many people are hunting for it. With attractive packaging, honey is sought after in the market. Unfortunately, not all honey sold provides maximum effects. This often happens because the honey sold is fake honey.
Fake honey is usually mixed with other ingredients such as water, sugar, syrup, starch, and flour. Instead of being healthy, fake honey or this mixture can actually cause illness if consumed. Therefore, you must be selective when buying honey on the market.
Basically, real and fake honey have their own differences. Some people usually use water as a medium to distinguish this honey. So, honey will be mixed with a glass of water. Well, real honey will usually settle directly at the bottom of the glass. While fake or mixed honey is easily dissolved and blends with water when mixed.
In addition to using water, there is actually another way that is no less easy. A YouTube user Delemon Tube once shared how to distinguish real and fake honey. Instead of using water, he used fire to distinguish the honey.
As reported by BrilioFood on Tuesday (24/9), the honey to be tested was apparently heated using fire only. In the video, he used three different types of honey as samples. Each of these honeys was simply placed on a spoon.
To test it, heat the bottom of the spoon using fire until the honey is hot and boiling. If so, let it sit at room temperature until the honey cools down again. After heating, there will usually be a change in the texture of each honey.
photo: YouTube/Delemon Tube
To find out the texture of the honey, simply press the surface of the honey using your finger. Then lift the honey and repeat the process. In the first and second honey experiments, the fingers of YouTube user Delemon Tube were really stuck. It was so dense that the spoon used to hold the honey was lifted.
photo: YouTube/Delemon Tube
It is different from the experiment in the third honey. When the surface of the honey is pressed, it appears that the honey is still liquid and not solid at all. The texture is still caramel like when it was not heated.
photo: YouTube/Delemon Tube
Well, here's where you can see the difference. If honey tends to be solid and sticks tightly when pressed, it means the honey is fake or has been mixed with other ingredients. While real honey will remain liquid or caramelized even after being heated and cooled again.
Furthermore, the YouTube user explained in more detail about it. So the reason why fake honey tends to solidify is that when heated, the water content in the honey will evaporate and be wasted. Well, the remaining honey that is still mixed with sugar will then thicken and solidify when heated.
"If it thickens a lot, it usually has a lot of sugar. It's different with pure honey, when it's boiled, it doesn't harden like sugar," said YouTube Delemon Tube.
photo: YouTube/Delemon Tube
This upload by YouTube user Delemon Tube has received more than hundreds of thousands of viewers. It is no wonder that many netizens are interested and have responded directly through the comments column. Who would have thought, there are netizens who claim to have succeeded in practicing this method.
"I immediately tried it and it turned out that the original one was still liquid," said YouTube @ztmpersai5113.
"Thanks for the explanation, bro," replied YouTube @dodocombe2498.
"Masyaallah tabarakallah, thank you bro..
There are still people who share knowledge and honesty,' said YouTube @fendi13.
"Thank you for the experience, " said YouTube @sunanjogopawon3306.
"That's right, if you mix it with sugar it will definitely be sticky, but it's really good," said YouTube @mardoyo8524.
(brl/tin)
