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Review on 🔥 Efficiently Heat Your Buckets with Powerblanket BB05 Blanket Heater by Richard Sallah

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great answer to honey heating in 5 gallon buckets!

I'm just a small hobby beekeeper looking for a good way to safely and efficiently heat my 5 gallon buckets of honey. So when I discovered BeeBlanket on Revain, it looked like something that could work well for me. My order arrived quickly (thanks Revain Prime) and after a quick check it was wrapped in a full heat bucket. After 24 hours, in a room with an ambient temperature of around 20°C, my honey had risen from 18°C to a comfortable 40°C throughout the process. Also, I placed my cold bucket on a piece of rigid foam insulation to minimize heat transfer from the cold floor. That's right, I didn't use it to warm a cold bucket of candied honey, that comes later. In my opinion, heating and reliquefying a 5 gallon bucket of honey would be a multi-day project. Slow and steady like bees. So far I'm impressed with BeeBlanket and it works well for my purposes. Honey 104° is easy to strain and bottle, plus it's honey safe! Using a 120w insulated blanket seems effective to me and has worked fairly well. My Kill-A-Watt meter is currently tracking power consumption, so I'll update this review later. PowerBlanket also offers a version of the BeeBlanket (BB05GV) with a honey gate cutout, so that's on my wish list for the future. UPDATE: After running my BeeBlanket on a cool bucket of honey for a full 24 hours, my Kill-A-Watt meter gave me a daily charge of $0.08 per day for running costs. (The power here is 0.102/kH) Seems like a perfectly reasonable way to heat 5 gallons of honey. I am convinced!

Pros
  • ETL certified to UL, CSA, and CE safety standards
Cons
  • No power