Dave Smith wrote:

> sf wrote:
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>>Which of course leads me to ask why the HECK they charge so
>>much for comb honey? I'd buy more - if it was better
>>priced.
>
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> That's a good question. It used to be sold in nice little wooden frames, so there may
> have been extra cost for those frames and the labour to cut and package them. Nowadays
> they just cut a chunk and put it in a plastic tray. Perhaps they still charge more
> because fans of comb honey were used to paying more for it.
>

It costs the beekeeper a lot of honey to remove all that wax from the hive.
The bees will have to replace it instead of making honey. With regular
honey, the frames are replaced after the honey is extracted and the bees
just refill them.

Bob