Description
Honey Heating Blankets by Powerblanket solves common problems dealt with in the honey industry. For example, working with honey effectively is a matter of maintaining the proper viscosity. But heating honey through traditional methods poses two common problems: cooking out the healthy enzymes and antioxidants and burning it. The Bee Blanket is a solution specific to the honey industry. The difference with the Powerblanket heating solution is that it maintains the same temperature as a hive. With our low-level internal thermostats, you don’t have to worry about heating your honey. The Powerblanket Bee Blanket keeps your honey at hive temperatures so that it won’t lose nutrients or burn.
- Cinch straps to secure tight fit
- One uniform heat zone
- The highly efficient design saves time and energy
- Water-resistant and weatherproof
- Works on both poly and steel buckets and pails
- Prevent overheating your honey and help minimize crystallization
- Keeps your honey at hive temperatures so you don’t lose nutrients
- All models are certified by ETL to UL & CSA safety standards
- Blanket temperature maintains 90°-110°F on (BB05, BB05-240V, BB05GV, BB55, BB55-240V models)
- Blanket temperature maintains ambient up to a max temp of 145°F on (BB05pro, BB55pro models)
- These Honey Heating Blankets by Powerblanket are the new gold standard in heating your honey to the perfect temperatures for your specific honey process or application.
eBay Customer on Jan 18, 2015 (BB05) –
Love it. Works so much better than the silicone band heaters I’ve been using for years that tend to burn my honey. I’ll be back for more:)
Elliot Stephens on Jan 18, 2016 (BB55PRO) –
Excellent answer for honey warming in a 55-gallon drum! I’m just a small amateur beekeeper looking for a good way to warm my 55-gallon barrels of honey safely and efficiently. So when I spotted the BeeBlanket in the marketplace it looked like something that might work well for me. When ordering here from the online Powerblanket store, my order arrived quickly and after a quick inspection, it was wrapped around a full 55-gallon drum for warming. After 24 hours my honey went from 62°F to a nice 104°F in a room with an ambient temperature of roughly 68°F throughout the process. I also placed my cold metal drum on a thick piece of rigid foam insulation to minimize heat transfer from the cold floor. Admittedly I haven’t warmed a stone-cold drum of crystallized honey with it, that will be later. Warming and re-liquefying a 55-gallon barrel of honey would be a multi-day project in my estimation. Slow and steady like the bees…So far I’m impressed with the BeeBlanket and it’s working good for my purposes. 104° honey is easy to strain and bottle plus it’s safe for the honey! Using an 800-watt insulated drum blanket seems efficient to me and it worked quite well. I’m sold on this!
Anthony on Feb 04, 2016 (BB05) –
Great for liquefying crystalized honey, very impressive!!!
Russell Moore on Feb 08, 2016 (BB55) –
This is a perfect fit for both my blue plastic barrels and my steel drum. Easy to put it on. Just plug it in, set it and forget about it. Life is a little easier with my honey in a soft warm condition even in the colder months.
Sean S on Mar 07, 2016 (BB05) –
It takes awhile to decrystallize and I would recommend a couple stirs while it’s working.
Sean Simpson on Mar 16, 2016 (BB05) –
THEY WORK GREAT! Have a 5 gallon pail of totally crystalized honey, liquefied in 24 hrs, NO burning of honey and still at way below Pasteurization point!!!!!!!
Scott Williams on May 03, 2016 (BB05) –
Works great for warming my honey for bottling! This pail heating blanket works great for warming my honey in our 5 gallon pails in preparation for bottling. I left the heater on and warmed my honey overnight and the following day my honey wasn’t too warm, but just the right viscosity for bottling. This heater is a time saver and worth it’s weight in gold. Thank you!
Gary G on Apr 20, 2016 (BB05) –
Hot Deal! Works great and better than expected!
Ty Smith on May 02, 2016 (BB55) –
This heater does the job! It’s great for keeping my honey warm!
Harold Keiner on May 27, 2016 (BB05) –
The blanket did warm the honey, but seemed to take a long time, but the item is made well.
John Shoemaker on Jun 08, 2016 (BB05) –
Five Stars! This heater works great for warming my honey and is very well made.
Melody Carter on Jun 08, 2016 (BB05) –
Great Product! This was very helpful for slowly melting my palm oil. It took almost a full 24 hours but it was worth it!
Amazon Customer on Aug 08, 2016 (BB05) –
Really cool honey warming product!
Alex Krechowieckion Sep 3, 2016 (BB05) –
Five stars, excellent product!
Dr Robert K Pelant on Sep 12, 2016 (BB05) –
Four stars, very nice!
Greg Steinberg on Sep 13, 2016 (BB05-240V) –
Very nice product that is well made. Thank you!
William W. on Oct 24, 2016 (BB05) –
It works well but I don’t think it reaches 104 degrees. I wish it was warmer to heat up a bucket of thick honey.
Jean Paloma on Oct 25, 2016 (BB05) –
PERFECT! So happy we purchased this. It works perfectly for warming. We use it with the temp controller.
Gene Evans on Oct 26, 2016 (BB05GV) –
Perfect! So happy we purchased this pail heater. It works perfectly for warming our honey prior to bottling. We use it with the digital temperature controller.
Amazon Customer on Nov 01, 2016 (BB05GV) –
Looks durable and warms right up. Fits a 5 gallon bucket nice but never was able to test fully with honey.
Barrett on Nov 14, 2016 (BB05) –
Works great. Helps de-crystallize my buckets of honey
Deborah on Dec 15, 2016 (BB05) –
Love it!!!! We absolutely love our Bee blanket. It keeps our honey at the right temperature and makes pouring effortless. Why did we not do this sooner?!
K Wells on Nov 25, 2016 (BB05) –
Works fantastic! In about 18 hours it had warmed half crystallized honey to almost exactly 110 degrees; which thinned it completely out.
J Ann on Dec 03, 2016 (BB05) –
Wow! This is awesome!! I was totally surprised at how well and how fast the bee blanket worked! It is awesome!! Only wish i had purchased it sooner. Truly pleased with it. It’s great!
Randall H. on Dec 11, 2016 (BB05) –
Heats up great and evenly
Randal Thompson on Dec 15, 2016 (BB05) –
Perfect heated solution for my honey. Heats up great and evenly, thank you!
Steven Pitre on Jan 11, 2017 (BB05) –
Works great!
Works great, especially when used with the digital thermostat they offer. This Bee Blanket is a life saver and I’ll be back to buy more in the future.
Johnny T. on Mar 09, 2017 (BB05) –
Got too warm for my specific honey process.
Darth Dad on Mar 17, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Works well. Gently and slowly warms honey to just warm enough to liquefy, but not cook off all beneficial enzymes/ etc. Appears to be well made. Highly recommend.
James Fennell on Mar 21, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Works well. Gently and slowly warms honey to just warm enough to liquefy, but not cook off all beneficial enzymes/ etc. Appears to be well made. Highly recommend.
Honey Man on Mar 21, 2017 (BB55-240V) –
Four Stars. The product works great for slowly warming my honey without overheating and pasteurizing it. Comes with a 220 plug though, didn’t see that in the description.
JIM on Mar 28, 2017 (BB05) –
This item worked fine. It is just sloooow when you have a 5 gallon pail of crystallized honey.
Jay on Apr 11, 2017 (BB05) –
This is a great solution for liquefying crystallized honey. I put some 2″ dense foam board insulation under the barrel and on top, took about 4 days to have the whole drum of honey liquefied at 110F.
Ronald Shonyo on Apr 25, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Fits bucket well.Have not put to the test yet.
Tracy Lydia on May 16, 2017 (BB55PRO) –
Bee Blanket great for melting pails of Coconut Oil
– We purchased this to melt buckets of coconut oil and the product works well. It’s light weight, easy to use and came as described. We’re very happy with our purchase.
Barrett Tucker on May 16, 2017 (BB05GV) –
This Bee Blanket works great! It helps de-crystallize my buckets of honey.
Alex Kleghorn on May 19, 2017 (BB05) –
Five Stars – works great for de-crystallizing my buckets if honey. Excellent value!
Matt Duncan on Aug 21, 2017 (BB05) –
So far so good! I have a small honey operation in Washington and needed a better heating solution to warm my honey for bottling purposes. I have used the old silicone band heaters for years with little success and I’ve heard a lot about Powerblanket heaters from other beekeepers in Washington who were using them and raved about them so had to give them a try. I purchased this drum heating blanket to help with my honey extraction & bottling and have to say, so far so good.
Farmboy 33 on Aug 21, 2017 (BB05) –
This may be OK if you do not mind waiting 24 hours or so to warm up your honey. This is only 120 watts. If I had read the reviews before I bought it, I would not have wasted my money on it. The one review that I did see before buying it, claimed it heat the bucket in two hours.
Ty Schmidt on Aug 28, 2017 (BB55PRO) –
These honey heating blankets work great for my small honey operation. I will buy a few more as soon as budget allows. Be aware that thermostat wire must be placed so that it can’t fall down onto the cold floor, else the drums can overheat if the thermostat thinks the drum surface is cold. Make sure to sandwich the temperature probe on the bottom 1/3 rd of your 55-gallon drum between the drum heating blanket and the drum itself to get the most accurate temperature reading. All in all, these honey heating blankets work great!
Project Bee on Sep 20, 2017 (BB05) –
Five stars, works as advertised.
Kenneth on Oct 08, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Ordered the blanket with a cutout for the honey gate but instead recieved the regular blanket. Thats the reason for less stars. Other than that it works as it should it seems.
Berry Peck on Oct 13, 2017 (BB55) –
You won’t regret buying this drum heater! Great quality product for a reasonable price. I have about five sets now heating my barrels of crystallized honey and these bee blankets have been a lifesaver.
Tracy Latham on Oct 13, 2017 (BB55PRO) –
Bee Blanket great for melting barrels of Coconut Oil! We purchased this Bee Blanket heater to melt barrels of coconut oil and the product works well. It’s lightweight, easy to use and came as described. We’re very happy with our purchase, thank you!
Hate to shop for others on Nov 09, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Followed the advice of others and placed on styrofoam, stirred occasionally and heated a solid to 5 lb pail to liquid in 2 days.
Amazon Canada Customer on Nov 12, 2017 (BB05) –
Needing it to be taller to cover more of the top of the pail. Otherwise works as described.
Amazon Canada Customer on Dec 04, 2017 (BB05) –
5 Stars, works great!
John C. on Dec 07, 2017 (BB55PRO) –
Works good for honey. This pro model drum heating blanket works good, I use it for my honey barrels, it takes 2-3 days to take honey from hard to liquid.
Roger Snow on Dec 07, 2017 (BB05) –
On time and they worked great. Really saved us a lot of money in labour.
Felecia Chavez on Dec 18, 2017 (BB05) –
One word AWESOME!!! I am a beekeeper and small business owner, when I found that my honey was crystalizing I researched companies that would keep my honey from crystalizing and found Powerblanket. I bought the Beeblanket that wraps around a 5 lb bucket, it worked amazingly well! I then purchased a Beeblanket that covers a 55 gal drum. One word AWESOME!!! I no longer have to worry about my honey. Thanks, Powerblanket.
Paul Siwy on Jan 03, 2018 (BB05) –
Wonderful product! At first I thought it wasn’t working but later realised it takes a few days to properly liquid hardened honey. Honey liquefies faster at higher temps however it also kills beneficial enzymes etc if heated beyond the temp the Bee Blanket heats to. I place a Styrofoam disc on top and bottom of the pail to allow the blanket to heat more efficiently. I can now reliquify hardened honey for packing into smaller containers.problem solved!
Thanks Bee Blanket!
Luke Cummings on Jan 11, 2018 (BB55-240V) –
4 stars. Comes with a 220 plug, I didn’t see that in the description. Other than that, it’s a well made honey warmer.
Diauddin Noori on Jan 14, 2018 (BB05) –
This product is very good can liquefy crystallized honey without overheating it. you have to understand this process takes time its not a quick operation you need to rap it around a bucket and pretty much for get about it for a week or so it depends on the severity of the crystallization then you will see a very fresh like honey.
eBay customer on Feb 22, 2018 (BB05GV) –
Works well for safely warming my honey buckets.
Amazon Customer on Apr 07, 2018 (BB05GV) –
The Powerblanket work very well. It took longer than expected to return our honey to a liquid state.
Chad Gilliland on Apr 17, 2018 (BB05) –
The bee blanket is convenient bit inconsistent on heating a 5 gallon bucket of honey. Each and every time, the both 1/5 of a bucket never liquefied and remains crystallized. Take me 3-4 days to liquefy 4/5’s a bucket.
Ross on Jul 04, 2018 (BB05) –
Works very good. Heats honey not too much.
Western Wilson on Aug 02, 2018 (BB05) –
This year I faced some issues with crystallized honey getting spun out in the extractor along with the liquid honey, and that meant the whole batch was seeded with crystals and it started to solidify within a week. I had, by accident, made poor quality creamed honey! The problem was, how to liquify the bucket without a lot of mess and burning the honey.
I bought the Bee Blanket, and while it is working, it doesn’t quite do the job. I followed the suggestions of the other posters here and covered the wrapped bucket with a thick comforter to keep the heat in the honey. It took a week to liquufy the creamed 5 gallon bucket, or at least most of it. **There was about 1 1/2″ of crystallized, sludgy honey in the bottom of the bucket, which of course means if left that way the bucket will crystallize rapidly all over again.** I poured off the mostly liquid honey, which has to be rewarmed again to be sure all the crystals are gone, and this time put a heating pad UNDER the bucket to make sure the bottom is also warmed. The sludge I scraped into a double boiler and am warming to reliquify.
So, if you have sludgy or even solidly crystallized honey, this device will work but it will take many days, extra wrapping, and a LOT of stirring, and I mean scraping the bottom sludge thoroughly to ensure it is heated and the crystals all melted.
So, one star is lost because the device does not heat the bottom of the bucket well. Another star is lost because the cinch (using a pinch clip) for the blanket is awkward and hard to use. A Velcro strap would have been much better, and I will buy a separate Velcro strap if I use this again. And it may actually work better if the bucket is placed on top of the middle of the Bee Blanket (so the bottom of the bucket receives heat), and the sides wrapped up as high as they will go, then wrap bucket and blanket in a warm comforter.
The Bee Blanket is a decent, inexpensive way to warm crystallized honey, but it has flaws. Unfortunately there is little on the market between the Bee Blanket and a $1400 cabinet warmer.
Mark on Oct 08, 2016 (BB05) –
I’m just a small amateur beekeeper looking for a good way to warm my 5-gallon pails of honey safely and efficiently. So when I spotted the BeeBlanket on Amazon it looked like something that might work well for me.
My order arrived quickly (thanks Amazon Prime) and after a quick inspection it was wrapped around a full pail for warming. After 24 hours my honey went from 62°F to a nice 104°F in a room with an ambient temperature of roughly 68°F throughout the process. Also, I placed my cold pail on a chunk of ridgid foam insulation to minimize heat transfer from the cold floor.
Admittedly I haven’t warmed a stone-cold pail of crystallized honey with it, that will be later. Warming and re-liquefying a 5-gallon pail of honey would be a multi-day project in my estimation. Slow and steady like the bees…
So far I’m impressed with the BeeBlanket and it’s working good for my purposes. 104° honey is easy to strain and bottle plus it’s safe for the honey! Using a 120 watt insulated blanket seems efficient to me and it worked quite well. My Kill-A-Watt meter is currently monitoring the power consumption so I’ll update this review later.
PowerBlanket also offers a version of the BeeBlanket that has a cutout for a honey gate (BB05GV) so that’s on my wishlist for the future.
Ocean on Jan 03, 2018 (BB05GV) –
Works great. Unfortunately I needed to wrap the entire unit with a comforter to get the honey to liquefy, otherwise it was forever recrystallizing on the bottom! I was using the blanket inside a 65-70 degree room in our small apartment. It seems like the blanket has a very specific heat output, and it doesn’t change when the outside weather gets colder; so you need to take measures to keep the area around the bee blanket at 70 degrees or more, or else insulate it somehow. I wish there was a very similar product out there with a thermometer and variable heat output so that it would be user-friendly to operate; for now there is the bee blanket and we made do.
Pirate John on Apr 08, 2017 (BB55) –
This is a great solution for liquefying crystallized honey. Put some 2″ Dense foam board insulation under the barrel and on top, took about 4 days to have the whole drum at 110F and clear.
Nemonik on Jan 28, 2018 (BB05GV) –
Works as stated. Would be nice if it had a LED on it to remind you it was on at a glance and I wished it sinched a bit tighter on the bucket.
It isn’t a snug fit considering 5 gal buckets are all about the same size. Expensive too.
danvilleman on Sep 19, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Works well. Suggest you add a piece of rigid foam board under your bucket and a blanket or towel to prevent heat loss and provide more even heating. We lived it plugged in constantly.
Steve L on Dec 18, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Does a good job heating the honey and is easy to use.
Madison Soap Company on May 27, 2018 (BB05-240V) –
Works OK. Did not come with the straps it said it came with.
Steve A. Wheeler on May 21, 2017 (BB05GV) –
Where do I start. I absolutely love this blanket so easy to use! And it works amazing. Highly recommend it
Jib on Feb 12, 2018 (BB05GV) –
A must have for any sideline Beekeeper.A must have for any sideline Beekeeper.
John on Jan 10, 2017 (BB05) –
Works great, especially when used with the Inkbird temp controller itc-308.