Sioux Honey Survey
Create your own user feedback surveyThank you for taking our survey! After you complete the survey you will be entered for a chance to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card and a bottle of our new SUE BEE® Honey BBQ Sauce.
Additionally, you will be receiving an email with your 10% off code for all honey in our Sioux Honey Amazon Store.
To view the official rules for the giveaway, go to: /giveaway-rules/
Honey Club Members Survey Giveaway Rules
SIOUX HONEY CO-OP (SHC) OFFICIAL GIVEAWAY RULES
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1. Eligibility: This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years or older as of the date of entry and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of SHC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway. The giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
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3. Campaign Period: Entries will be accepted online starting on Dec. 8, 2022,and ending December 16, 2022. All online entries must be received by midnight Central Time, December 16, 2022.
4. How to Enter: To enter, You must fill out the entire Sioux Honey – Honey Club Member Survey. The entry must fulfill all giveaway requirements, as specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. You may enter only once. You must provide the information requested. You may not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the rules, your submission may be removed from eligibility at the sole discretion of SHC.
5. Prizes: The Winner(s) of the giveaway (the “Winner”) will receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card and a bottle of SUE BEE® Honey BBQ Sauce. The specifics of the prize shall be solely determined by SHC. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted. No substitution of prize or request for the cash equivalent by the Winner is permitted. No transfer/assignment of prize to others is permitted unless the Winner does not respond to contact by SHC within one week of initial contact. At that point, another Winner will be chosen. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for SHC to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purpose of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.
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13. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the giveaway is Sioux Honey Association Co-op, 301 Lewis Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51101.
No-bake Dates
Ingredients
1 package of pitted dates
8 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup crushed pistachios
SUEBEE® honey
Directions
Make a slice into the date. Spoon cream cheese into dates. Top with crushed pistachios. Drizzle with honey. Serve immediately!
Honey Brunch Punch
Ingredients
3/4 cup simple syrup
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 1/2 cups orange juice
1 1/2 cups bourbon or whiskey
1 liter of ginger ale
Maraschino cherries
Simple Syrup
1 cup water
1 cup SUEBEE® INFUSIONS® Lemon flavored honey
Directions
Mix all ingredients in large bowl except ginger ale. Right before serving add ginger ale. Garish bottom of each glass with cherries. Pour and enjoy!
To make simple syrup mix 1 cup water and 1 cup SUEBEE® INFUSIONS® Lemon flavored honey tin saucepan. Bring to a boil, then cool and store in refrigerator.
Honey Cinnamon Twists
Ingredients
2 cans of refrigerated crescent rolls
2 tbsps SUEBEE® INFUSIONS® Vanilla flavored honey
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon, combined
Directions
Create eight rectangles from the crescent dough on two baking sheets. Melt butter, then add honey, cinnamon and brown sugar. Stir to combine. Pour about a tablespoon of mixture onto the rectangle of dough. Roll dough lengthwise and twist to create a spiral effect. Bake at 350 degrees for 13-15 minutes. Remove from oven when cinnamon sticks are golden brown. Sprinkle with sugar mixture and drizzle with honey.
Honey Mustard Sauce
Ingredients
1/4 cup mustard
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup SUEBEE® honey
Directions
Combine all ingredients in bowl. Stir until well blended! Enjoy with a warm pretzel, baked chicken or on your favorite brat!
Texas Roadhouse-style Cinnamon Butter … With a Twist!
Ingredients
1/2 cups salted butter, softened
1/4 cup AUNT SUE’S® Raw & Unfiltered Honey
1 tsp cinnamon
Directions
Combine all ingredients in bowl. Using hand mixer, whip all ingredients until smooth and creamy. Enjoy on your favorite breads! Store in fridge.
Honey Yogurt Bark
Ingredients
2 cups vanilla-flavored greek yogurt
1/2 cup sliced strawberries
1/2 cup blueberries
SUE BEE® INFUSIONS® Strawberry Honey
Directions
Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Spread greek yogurt across baking sheet. Top with strawberries and blueberries. Drizzle with honey. Freeze for 4 hours. Remove from freezer, break apart and enjoy. Store in freezer in airtight container.
DIY Tuna & Honey Cat Treats
We love our four-legged friends, which is why we often feature homemade pet treats made with honey. In the past, we’ve featured recipes for our precious pooches: Peanut Butter Banana Honey Pet Treats and our Oats & Honey Dog Treats. But this one is for the cat owners.
And it is pawsibly the tastiest homemade cat treats your kitty has ever had! It’s a recipe for Tuna & Honey Cat Treats, and it’s the cat’s meow. It makes kittens smitten. Your feline will do a beeline to this treat. So, whip up a batch right meow!
Ingredients
- 2.5 oz. canned tuna
- 1 egg
- 2 oz SUE BEE® honey
- 1/2 oz grated carrots
- 1 tsp rice flour
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- In a bowl, add egg (and beat), along with the carrot, tuna and honey. Add rice flour (if necessary) and mix step by step until a consistent dough remains. Form small balls of the mixture.
- Place the treats on a greased paper tray and bake at 180 C for 10–15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and rest at room temperature.
- Store in a tightly sealed container for up to one week.
An Attitude of Gratitude
Sioux Honey family member looks back on a rewarding career
“People.”
That’s how Bruce Nyhammer describes his long career at the Sioux Honey Co-op.
“Sioux Honey is a people business. That’s why I’ve spent so much of my career here,” says Bruce, who is retiring this year as Western Marketing Director after being a member of the Sioux Honey team for the past 19 years.
“Looking back, I actually have never worked for a so-called corporation, a large corporation, or a public corporation,” Bruce continues. “I’ve worked for either a privately held business or a co-op, and Sioux Honey is a co-op. It’s a little different, I think, and I’ve always enjoyed working with people more in an entrepreneurial type of a situation. And with Sioux Honey, you wear a lot of hats, and you work with a lot of people. You’re helping people do things in a lot of different ways, and it can be really exciting doing that. I’ve enjoyed that.”
Working for a co-op is especially gratifying, Bruce says.
“The people you’re working for are the people that own the company. At Sioux Honey, there’s over 200+ beekeepers, and that’s really who you’re working for.”
“And, of course, the association is the marketing side, and working together with other associates has been very rewarding. I think that we’re all working together toward the same goal. The beekeepers are obviously so important to our company. They are our company; they’re supplying our honey. And we’re selling the best honey there is … there isn’t any better honey that’s found in the U.S.”
Helping others is a theme that flows through everything he and the Sioux City, Iowa-based co-op does, Bruce says. It’s a trait he learned from his father and his uncle as a child.
Bruce’s parents owned a general store and, before school, beginning when he was 8, Bruce would help get the store ready for the day. It began with sweeping the floors, and the responsibilities grew from there.
“I really learned a lot from my dad. He was my first mentor,” Bruce says. “He taught me a lot about the grocery industry and about things in general. And through the years, I’ve had different mentors. My uncle was a significant mentor, too. My Mother also had a big influence on my life and has always been my biggest supporter.”
At Sioux Honey, Bruce says he benefitted from several longtime employees who helped him learn the honey business.
“The first person I worked for was Jim Powell (a former vice president of sales and marketing at Sioux Honey). And he helped me along,” says Bruce. “As well as Dave Allibone (past president), and Mark Mammen (president emeritus). And then, more recently, Alex Blumenthal (current president and CEO) was also influential.”
“The other person who has had a big impact on my career at Sioux Honey is my wife, Diana. She has totally supported me on everything I do at Sioux Honey, whether it is early-morning calls, the travel I have done almost every week (before COVID), or weekend business.”
Bruce says he always tried to go that extra mile when working with grocery store associates and food brokers. The extra effort, he said, has ultimately benefited Sioux Honey.
“All the food brokers I have worked with over the years have been a big part of the success I have had, as well as the success of selling Sioux Honey products.”
“And even customers – helping them helps us,” Bruce continued. “I like helping others do well, and so does everyone at Sioux Honey. I always feel if they’re doing well, we’re doing well.
“If I can help our brokers sell our product, then they’re going to do better, and Sioux Honey is going to do better. And even our customers. If I could tell them about the honey industry and how important Sioux Honey is to the industry, that always helped gain more distribution for Sioux Honey.
“So I really like to work with other people, and that’s always been the best way. One person can’t do it all, but helping others expand on what they’re doing has always helped Sioux Honey.”
Evolution of Sioux Honey
A lot has changed in the honey business since Bruce began working at the co-op. Honey was bottled in glass containers when he started, rather than the industry standard plastic that the majority of honey is packaged in now.
“When honey was sold in the glass jar, we used to put lights behind the product in stores and the lights would shine through the glass jar, and the honey would just sparkle,” Bruce recalled.
Another change? Fewer honey companies were competing for shelf space.
“It’s evolved to today where over 800 different companies show up in the grocery stores throughout the country,” Bruce says.
In addition to more competition, there are more varieties of honey available today, and Sioux Honey has been at the forefront of creating new honey products. In recent years, the beekeeper-owned co-op has developed new flavors, such as SUE BEE® INFUSIONS™ Strawberry, Lemon and Vanilla honeys, as well as SUE BEE® Hot Honey, which Bruce helped develop.
“I was involved with that from the start, and it was truly something that we developed from the ground up, so to speak. Or maybe from the hive up,” says Bruce. “We had to test it, and test it and test it – we wanted it to be as pure and as good a product as possible.
“We didn’t want to just throw something out there. So it took a lot of time, with other people in the company helping. It was really a team effort in building it.”
Popular favorite
Like many Sioux Honey lovers, Bruce names SUE BEE® SPUN® Honey among his favorites. And he enjoys the original SUE BEE® honey in his tea each morning.
“I also put it in yogurt, which I have pretty much every day. Another great thing to add honey to is cereals, like oatmeal, during the winter months.
“We also use honey a lot in cooking. My wife will use it in recipes. There are so many things that you can use.”
Bruce likes to talk to people about the benefits of substituting traditional sugar with honey. He even convinced a guy he knows who works for a sugar company to make the switch.
“He prefers honey for his coffee now. I won’t tell what company it is,” Bruce says with a grin.
“Another big change at Sioux Honey, the industry and Sioux Honey is how we communicate. In the past, I was traveling almost every week. Since March of 2020, Zoom and Teams is now an everyday part of our vocabulary. As an example, I am on a Teams meeting daily with Sioux Honey associates, brokers and customers. We had a new VP of sales at Sioux Honey, Scott Lebow, and I met Scott via Teams, and we did not have the opportunity to meet in person for over six months. We have Teams meetings several times a day and have been able to really get to know one another.”
What’s next for Bruce?
Can you guess what Bruce will miss most? If you said, “the people,” you are 100% correct.
“I am definitely going to miss working with all the great people at Sioux Honey. A lot of people there are not just my associates, but friends. And that also goes for the brokers and customers that I work with too,” Bruce says.
“Over the year, you develop both working relationships and friendships, and just talking to them every day … that, I’m going to miss.”
As for post-retirement, Bruce has some plans, including a few home improvement projects. He also wants to travel with his wife, play golf and visit friends.
“I think the toughest thing that I will have is not working on something for Sioux Honey every morning before seven o’clock. I’m probably going to miss that the most.”
“I would also like to thank all my family, friends, everyone at Sioux Honey, both current and past associates, as well as the Sioux Honey Board members and co-op members, and all the brokers I have worked with. I want to also thank all the customers I have had the pleasure to call on and all the many other people I have met in the food industry and organizations I have been part of for all their support. It has been my honor to know them.”
All of us at Sioux Honey are going to miss YOU, Bruce. You have been such an important member of our family for so many years. You are much more than an employee. You are our friend, our mentor, our colleague, and, most of all, you are family.
“If anyone wants to call me and talk about honey, I’ll probably be more than happy to do that,” Bruce adds.
We’ll try to let you relax and enjoy some much-deserved time off for a while, Bruce. But keep your phone close by!
Two-Ingredient Gluten-Free Banana Pancakes
Ingredients
2 eggs
1 large ripe banana
SUEBEE® INFUSIONS® Vanilla flavored honey
Directions
Mash banana in bowl with fork. Add two eggs and beat until well blended. The mixture will be slightly lumpy. Pour onto griddle or non-stick pan. Cook over low to medium heat until brown and flip. Top with sliced bananas and chocolate chips. Enjoy with SUEBEE® INFUSIONS® Vanilla flavored honey. For extra protein add peanut or almond butter!
No Bake Cheesecake Protein Bites
Ingredients
Crust
1 cup crushed graham crackers
1 tbsp of SUEBEE® INFUSIONS® Vanilla flavored honey
2 tbsp Almond Butter
Cheesecake filling
8 ounces cream cheese (1/3 fat)
1 cup zero sugar greek vanilla yogurt
1/4 cup vanilla protein powder
Directions
Crust
Mix crushed graham crackers, honey and almond butter until well blended. Line muffin pan with 8 baking cups. Fill cups about half way, then press down graham mixture with bottom of small glass.
Cheesecake Filling
Combine all ingredient in bowl and blend well with mixer until smooth and creamy. Scoop about 1/4 cup into muffin cups. Refrigerate for 4 hours (or freeze for a cold treat). Top with fruit of your choice and honey. Enjoy!
A Very Sweet Day
Learn to draw a honeybee in 5 easy steps!
For National Honeybee Day, we’re celebrating by showing everyone how easy it is to draw a honeybee. Kids, adults – doesn’t matter – grab a pencil and paper and let’s have some fun! Click on the video below for a super cute tutorial.
A Month Just for Bees
6 questions with the National Honey Board’s CEO Margaret Lombard
It seems that a major event like National Honey Month would have been established a long, long time ago in a bee yard far, far away. But it wasn’t until 1989 that the annual September celebration came to bee. (See what we did there?)
That year, the National Honey Board initiated National Honey Month to mark a very important month for beekeepers and honey brands across the United States. The honey collection season typically concludes in September as bees begin to secure their hives and prepare for winter. National Honey Month is a way to promote American beekeeping, the beekeeping industry and honey as the best natural and most beneficial sweetener.
As we celebrate the month, we thought it might be fun to chat with Margaret Lombard, the CEO of the National Honey Board, which was created in the 1980s to help spread the word about the wonderful world of honey and to help fund projects designed to find new and improved uses for honey in foods and other products. The National Honey Board also has many other goals, which you can read all about HERE.
In the meantime, we asked Margaret …
Sioux Honey: What is your favorite EDIBLE way to use honey?
Margaret: I love to eat honey simply drizzled on soft cheese, like goat cheese spread on a cracker.
Sioux Honey: What is your favorite NON-EDIBLE way to use honey?
Margaret: This simple honey salt scrub is fabulous:
Homemade Salt Scrub
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 cup coarse salt
- 6 drops of an essential oil (like lavender)
Sioux Honey: What is your favorite food that honeybees pollinate?
Margaret: With one-third of our diet coming from foods that honeybees pollinate, it is hard to pick just one! But this time of year, I am loving all the fresh fruit, especially pears. And year-round almonds and avocados are a favorite.
Sioux Honey: Do you have a favorite recipe using honey that you can share?
Margaret: One of my family’s most requested desserts is for a honey, brown butter, apple fruit crisp. It is amazing. [You can find the full recipe on the National Honey Board website HERE.]
Sioux Honey: Have you ever kept honeybees and collected your own honey?
Margaret: I have had the pleasure of visiting with many amazing beekeepers throughout the United States and watching their extraction and packing processes. Someday, I hope to have enough land to keep my own bees.
Sioux Honey: Why should every single human being on earth care about the honeybee?
Margaret: Choosing honey supports beekeepers who support honeybees, and honeybees pollinate more than a third of the world’s food supply, including many of the fruits, vegetables, nuts and other crops that are so important to a healthy diet. What could be more important than that?
Back-to-school Snack Attack
Try these quick and easy – and delicious – honey-filled snacks the next time your kids are hungry
It seems like kids are always hungry – before school, during school, after school. If you’re a mom or dad, then there’s a good chance you’ve heard these two words a few times: “I’m hungry.”
So the next time your kiddo makes that proclamation, here are a few ideas (and their recipes) that will put a smile on their face (click on the images below to link to the recipe):
Honey PB Cheerio Bars
Fruit Smoothies
Banana Peanut Butter and SUE BEE® Honey Roll-ups
Bee Home By Sundown
Honeybees don’t fly at night – why not?
If we could flip a light switch and turn off the sun in the middle of the day, honeybees might drop like tiny anvils from the sky into the sudden darkness.
Weird, right?
But we can make that realistic analogy after seeing a video that went viral earlier this year. Posted on social media, the video captured dozens of honeybees plummeting to the bottom of a laboratory container immediately after the lights in the room were turned off. The video went viral and has been viewed tens of millions of times on social media ranging from TikTok and Facebook to Twitter and Reddit.
So, that got us thinking … why don’t honeybees fly at night? After all, they have FIVE eyes. They have two bigger eyes – one on each side of their heads called compound eyes. And get this: each one of those big eyes has thousands of tiny lenses – about 5,000 per eye for the worker bees (females) and about 10,000 lenses per eye for the drone bees (males).
That’s a LOT of lenses! You might think that having thousands of lenses would allow the honeybee to see at night. But nope.
And on top of those, each honeybee has three smaller eyes, called ocelli. The ocelli detect light and movement, which helps with navigation and orientation.
The bigger eyes, the compound eyes, also detect light, as well as color, movement and patterns that allow them to piece together what’s in front of them.
OK, so they have lots of eyes, why can’t they see at night?
That’s what we asked! And here’s what we found:
Honeybees are diurnal, meaning they only fly and pass along pollen during the day.
“Bees cannot technically see, they can use the sun’s rays (polarized light) to guide them,” Quinn S. McFrederick, associate professor of entomology at the University of California Riverside, said in a recent USA Today article.
Honeybees can crawl at night, however. And they can make their way around the inside of their hives too.
“Honeybees find their way without any other source of light available by using all of their senses and particular parts of their bodies to navigate inside the hive,” according to misfitanimals.com. “They use their sensory system to feel and touch the walls within the beehive, allowing them to move around without bumping into things. If they have just a little light, though, they can navigate through the night with their ocelli.”
Interestingly, there are nocturnal bees that zip around at night. They’re called Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) Texana, or the sweat bee, and they can fly during full moons and half-moons, says buzzaboutbees.net. Additionally, “a specific type of forager bee called Halictidae, which lives in the highlands of Panama, has adapted to be able to fly even without the aid of moonlight. These bees gather nectar and pollen from specific plants that are only active during night time as there is less competition from other insects,” says buzzaboutbees.net.
Nevertheless, most bees are daytime flyers, including our beloved honeybees. That way they can avoid obstacles that are harder to see and detect at night. All of which means that if you enjoy hanging out with honeybees, you’re going to have to do it before the sun goes down. Sorry, vampires, you’re out of luck!
Honey Orange Popsicles
Ingredients
3 tbsp SUE BEE® INFUSIONS™ Vanilla Honey
3/4 cup orange juice
1 15 oz can of mandarin oranges
Directions
Pour all ingredients into a blender. Blend well, then pour into popsicle molds. Insert popsicle sticks. Freeze for 6-8 hours. Enjoy on a hot day!
Patriotic Picnic-pleaser
A red-white-and-blue salad just in time for 4th of July celebrations
Here’s a healthy-minded salad that is festive, fun and delicious, too! Best of all, it’s quick and easy to make, and it comes with a savory honey-lime dressing. Yum!
All you need are strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and jicama for the white stars. Cut those up into even pieces and toss them in a bowl.
You can keep it simple and drizzle AUNT SUE’S® Raw & Unfiltered Organic Honey over the fruit or add a delicious honey-lime dressing. Here’s how to make it.
Honey-Lime Dressing
Ingredients:
4 tbsp AUNT SUE’S® Raw & Unfiltered Organic Honey
4 tbsp fresh lime juice
Minced zest of lime
Directions:
Wisk ingredients together.
Fruit Salad Ingredients:
12 oz each of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries
2 cups sliced strawberries
1 cup star-cut jicama
Fruit Salad Directions:
Toss fruit in a bowl and add dressing, then toss some more. Happy Fourth of July!
Summer Sunburn Relief
Try AUNT SUE’S® Raw & Unfiltered Honey the next time the sun gets the best of you.
“But I was only out there 15 minutes!”
Have you ever said that when getting a sunburn after being outside for just a few minutes? It doesn’t take long for the sun’s rays to wreak havoc on our skin, so please be careful this summer when you’re having fun in the sun.
Of course, no matter how careful we are, sunburns happen. And when they do, reach for a bottle of AUNT SUE’S® Raw & Unfiltered Honey. That’s right, honey!
Why honey?
Honey has proteins and enzymes that can aid healing from a sunburn. Plus, honey is naturally moisturizing, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and it can help soothe your sunburn in no time.
“In studies of quick and easy treatments to soothe mild burns, scientists have found that honey has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that may promote healing. One study in 2006, examining results of more than a dozen previous studies, found that small, non-serious burns healed faster when treated with gauze and a dash of honey (on average) rather than those treated with antibiotic creams and other dressings.”[1]
One way to use honey on sunburns is to apply honey directly to a sunburn or to a bandage. The moisture from the honey is absorbed into the skin, leaving a dry coating. You can also apply a thin layer of honey to the sun-damaged area and let it sit for about 15–30 minutes before rinsing or dabbing it off with a warm washcloth. It’s as easy as that!
[1] “Honey Can Soothe a Burn,” – New York Times, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/health/19real.html
Here’s to a Sweet Grilling Season
4 tips to make your patio cookouts a success this summer
Backyard culinary artists use grills as their canvas, and they are known for their “secret” methods of creating edible works of art. Well, we have a secret grilling method, too, but since we don’t like keeping secrets, we’re just going to go ahead and say it: SUE BEE® honey is the secret to making summer grilling a sweet affair!
Adding honey to your grilling is ideal on so many levels. From helping meats maintain their moisture to spurring browning and crisping, honey is a versatile tool to have at your side when you’re building a patio picnic.
We’ve talked about grilling with honey tips in the past, but they are worth repeating as we officially begin the grilling season.
1. Add another liquid to SUE BEE® honey. Honey by itself can, naturally, be a sticky endeavor when you try to brush it straight onto your grilling items. Instead, try mixing honey with another liquid, like a juice or oil. This makes the golden goodness easier to apply. Additionally, adding honey itself directly to meats can char the surface. By adding a bit of orange juice, fresh pineapple juice, or even a touch of water to the honey, you shouldn’t have any problem putting the honey mixture in direct heat. One of our favorite ways to grill with honey is to mix SUE BEE® honey, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and Dijon mustard. It’s a salty-sweet combo that packs a mouth-watering zing.
2. On the other hand, sometimes crispy and charred is preferred. If you like your food to have a little crunch when it comes off the grill, try glazing it first with SUE BEE® honey. It’s the perfect way to add texture, color and, of course, flavor to popular dishes like pork, chicken, vegetables and even fruits. Help make the honey easier to brush onto grilling items by running warm water over your honey container. Or let the bottle of honey sit in a bowl of warm water for a few minutes before applying.
3. Heat zones are crucial. Creating different temperature zones on your grill is also important for grilling with honey. One for direct heat and one for indirect heat. With a gas grill, this is easily accomplished. With coal grills, you can separate the coals accordingly. In a zone of indirect heat, you can apply your honey-juice mixture freely to the outer surface of your meats – pork or chicken are great options – to lock in flavor and moisture while contributing to the caramelization process. For a beautiful mahogany finish and a fast sear, move your honey-glazed meats into the area of direct heat and cook briefly.
4. Here comes the marinade parade! Marinades are great for honey since they also help meat hold moisture. Honey can also help marinades last longer while adding the perfect amount of sweetness. Add 1/4 cup of SUE BEE® honey to your favorite mixture and toss and mix the marinade in a plastic food storage bag with the meat. Then refrigerate and let it soak. For fish and vegetables, which tend to absorb flavors faster, marinate for 30 to 40 minutes. For chicken, soak for at least 2 to 8 hours (overnight is even better). Meats like pork or beef also need 2 to 8 hours for the flavors to develop.
Try these griller thrillers
Now that you have the scoop on grilling with honey, here are three of our favorite summer grill recipes: