Amazing Comb Honey!

Ross Round Comb Honey

Imagine tasting honey exactly as the bees made it.

Comb honey is honey in its purest form—raw honey still sealed inside the natural beeswax comb. Long before honey extractors were invented, this was how people enjoyed honey. Beautiful to look at and even more delicious to eat, comb honey is one of nature's simplest luxuries.

Easy Ways to Enjoy Comb Honey

Eat a small piece all by itself.
Spread it on warm toast, biscuits, or English muffins.
Add it to a cheese board with crackers and nuts.
Spoon it over yogurt, oatmeal, pancakes, or waffles.
Pair it with apple or pear slices.
Add a small piece to sandwiches.
Top warm brie with comb honey and serve with a baguette.
Try it on pizza for a sweet-and-savory surprise.

Cut Comb Honey!

Why is Comb Honey More Expensive than Extracted Honey

Honeycomb is expensive because it requires a high amount of bee energy, specialized labor, and delicate handling that regular bottled honey does not.

Bees must consume roughly 8 ounces of honey to produce just 1 ounce of beeswax, making comb honey much more resource-intensive for the bees than extracted honey. Comb honey production also pulls the bees out of extracted honey production, and ultimately reduces the amount of honey extracted at final harvest.
Comb honey is also more labor-intensive for the beekeeper. Cut comb must be carefully cut, cleaned and packaged by hand, with some loss from broken or imperfect pieces. Ross Round honey requires specialized equipment and individual cassettes in which the bees build the comb—and those supplies are expensive.
Both are specialty products with a short seasonal production window, and there is no guarantee the bees will finish what they start. They may beautifully fill and cap one frame or cassette while leaving another only partially filled or unevenly finished. An unfinished or poorly filled piece may not be marketable at all, even though the bees have already invested nectar, wax and time in producing it. This makes the usable harvest much smaller and less predictable than extracted liquid honey.
You’re not just buying the honey—you’re buying the honey exactly as the bees made and stored it.

Can You Eat the Beeswax?

Absolutely!

Beeswax is completely edible. It is soft, naturally produced by the bees, and has very little flavor of its own. Some people enjoy eating it with the honey, while others prefer to chew it like gum before discarding it.

When paired with crackers, fruit, cheese, yogurt, or bread, most people hardly notice the wax at all because it blends naturally with the other textures.

In Colonial times, beeswax was mixed with tree resins to make the first chewing gum.

Did You Know?

Beeswax is the only naturally occurring wax. Other types of wax must be rendered from fruit or leaves, and soy wax and paraffin wax are produced by a toxic chemical process. Bees produce the wax and form it into hexagonal repositories, called cells, that make up the structure of the honeycomb. It’s where bees store honey and pollen.

Types of Comb Honey

Ross Rounds

Bees build the comb directly inside the round container.
We simply add the lid and label.
The bees are the last living beings to touch the honey.

Cut Comb

Bees build natural comb inside wooden frames.
We carefully cut each 4x2 or 4×4 section by hand.
Frozen until needed for maximum freshness.

Cut Comb Honey, Draining After Cut from the Frame!

Ready to try it yourself?

Explore our Ross Round Comb Honey or our 4x2 or 4×4 Cut Comb Honey available in the shop.