50 LITRE STAINLESS STEEL POT WITH SEALABLE LID AND HONEYGATE

A cleaner way to settle, store and bottle your harvest

Every harvest ends the same way. The extractor is empty, the frames are back in the shed, and you are left with honey that still needs to settle and find its way into jars. Food buckets do the job for a while, but pouring from one into a jar without losing some over the side takes a steadier hand than most of us have at the end of a long day.

This 72kg honey tank (50LT) is the tidier way to handle that last stage. It is made from 0.60mm SS304 food-grade stainless steel with a plastic honey gate at the base, a lockable lid and carrying handles on both sides. 

Why stainless steel over plastic

SS304 is the same grade of stainless used in commercial food equipment. It will not rust, will not stain, and will not hold onto smells from a previous batch. Plastic buckets pick up scratches over time, and those scratches trap residue no matter how well you wash them. Stainless wipes clean in minutes and will still be in service long after a stack of buckets has been replaced.

Bottling straight from the tank

The plastic honey gate at the base turns bottling into a one-handed job. Sit a jar underneath, open the gate, and close it again when the jar is full. Gravity does the work, so there is no lifting a full bucket and no honey running down the outside of anything. Filling a batch of jars for market becomes a calm half hour instead of a sticky wrestling match.

Settling, storage and keeping the bees out

Give extracted honey a day or two in the tank and the fine air bubbles from the extractor rise to the surface, leaving clearer honey below the gate. The lockable lid matters more than it sounds. It keeps out dust and moisture, and during a dearth it stops robbing bees and ants from finding their way into your harvest. The handles on each side make it manageable to move, though a full tank is a two-person lift.