and on L’Officiel USA, and she recently graduated from New York University with a master's in journalism. You can find her at Bleecker Street Pizza on any given weekend.. In these videos, cool food influencers put loads of honey into stand mixers and let it rip while waxing poetic about how revolutionary a one-ingredient recipe this is. I didn’t think much of it until senior culinary editor Leah Colins mentioned that she’s been seeing the same.
Another discrepancy we noted between our tests and the videos we’d seen circulating is the amount of honey being whipped. We saw creators pull out TUBS of honey and dump it into their stand mixer bowls in order to whip up a rather large batch of whipped honey and keep it on hand at all times. This is all fine and great, but who’s got that much honey lying around? Certainly not us, that’s for sure. But if you have a need for a large amount of honey then, hey, this might be the trick for you.
It’s likely the popularity of whipped honey may have begun as a trend to bring life back to crystallized honey, and then just turned into a different way to use honey. draws to whipped honey: It makes a wonderful homemade gift that, yes, we would both actually give to people! It’s also just a great way to incorporate some flavor into your honey . However, Leah noted that including or swapping in whipped honey in recipes wouldn't make any noticeable difference.
Finally, I will say it’s a bit mesmerizing to watch in the stand mixer, the ribbons in the honey resembling the sticky-stretchy candy you see candy makers pulling before forming it into shapes. So I guess you could also make it if you’re in need of some entertainment? Besides that, unless you’re expecting a visit from Winnie the Pooh himself, the effort doesn’t outweigh the reward here.