{"id":30,"date":"2026-09-16T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/2026\/09\/16\/how-to-store-honey-so-it-lasts-for-years\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:56:45","slug":"how-to-store-honey-so-it-lasts-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/2026\/09\/16\/how-to-store-honey-so-it-lasts-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How to store honey so it lasts for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Properly stored, honey keeps practically forever. Archaeologists have found edible honey in Egyptian tombs. Your pantry just needs to follow three rules.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Keep the lid tight.<\/strong> Honey absorbs moisture from the air, and moisture is the only thing that can spoil it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skip the fridge.<\/strong> Cold speeds up crystallisation. A cupboard at room temperature is ideal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep it away from heat.<\/strong> Next to the stove, the aroma fades.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Always use a clean, dry spoon \u2014 a crumb of toast or a drop of water is all it takes to start fermentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lid on, out of the fridge and away from the stove. Three simple rules for honey that tastes as good in two years as it does today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[28,27],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide","tag-guide","tag-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-honey-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}