Honibe Honey drops
I read about Honibe honey drops a bit ago and thought it sounded like the perfect thing for the tea drinker on-the-go. I drink the majority of my tea at work, brewing it at my desk with hot water from the water cooler, I usually forgo honey since I already have a couple boxes of tea on my desk as well as a tea strainer, I think a jar of honey might be a bit much, so usually I just drink my tea as is, without any added sweetness.
Honebi claims to be a “Honey You Can Hold” and comes packaged in little honey drop forms. Made of 100% honey, the idea is that these small packets of hard honey can easily be tossed into your bag and brought anywhere with you with out fear of the packet breaking and you ending up with honey all over your bag. I can’t argue with the concept, it is great, the honey drops taste great too, just like honey (and how can you say anything bad about honey?). They even have a honey and lemon drop with the all-natural ingredients of honey and lemon.
Essentially, as they say on their website, Honibe “discovered a way to remove the messy stickiness from our honey while maintaining all of the great honey flavor.”
Here’s the thing though- The concept is sound, the execution is a bit flawed. Honibe sent me about 5 little packets of their honey drops in the mail, they come in little plastic containers with peel off backing. 1 of the 5 packets was a bit crushed and it looked like the honey drop had seen better days, in fact it looked like it was kind of melted, I figured that maybe this was just a fluke in the packaging and mailing and have been slowly working my way through the packets, fortunately I left 1 or 2 until now.
As the temperature rises outside my apartment tends to get a bit warm during the day. When this occurs the Honibe honey drops melt The simply resort back to liquid form in all their sticky honey grandeur, kind of makes me believe that if I were carrying it around in my bag during the summer and accidentally broke the out plastic packet or pierced the backing I would have a bag filled with honey (ok, well only a teaspoons worth of honey, but still not something I want seeping out in my bag). After a window is opened or the A/C is turned on the honey drops resort back into honey drop form. I think if you are claiming to have created non-messy, portable honey that with a little heat (we’ll say they start melting around 85 degrees, I doubt my apartment gets any warmer then that) becomes messy sticky honey, well I think that is a pretty big design flaw. Plus at $12 for a box of 20, you’re also paying $.60 for a teaspoon of honey.
As much as I like the concept and a little honey with my tea every now and then don’t expect to find Honibe honey drops in my bag any time soon.
