Description
The Powerblanket 5-gallon Bee Blanket is a heating solution specific to the honey industry. Working with honey effectively is a matter of maintaining the proper viscosity without burning the honey or cooking out valuable nutrients. The difference with this Powerblanket heating solution is that it maintains the same natural temperature as a beehive. 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.
The patented design of Powerblanket’s 5-gallon Bee Blanket eliminates hot and cold spots by applying uniform full-coverage heat across the entire surface of the container, allowing users to keep their materials at the proper viscosity while remaining at specified thermal levels. Each Bee Blanket can be equipped with either an adjustable or a fixed thermostat.
Bee Blankets come in two voltages: 120 volts and 240 volts. All of our 5-gallon Bee Blankets come as an insulated full-wrap design with cinch straps to secure a tight fit. They’re also water-resistant and can be used on poly and steel buckets. All Powerblanket products are ETL certified to UL, CSA, and CE safety standards.
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Purchased the fixed thermostat unit for plain buckets. Works very well. Simply wrap the bucket and cinch the strap. Plug it in and leave it alone for a couple of days. Our first test was a bucket of mostly crystalized honey. It took 3 days and couple of stirrings – after the 2nd and 3rd days. The result was a bucket of honey as liquid and clear as the day we extracted it. The honey was just warm (thermometer said it was 90 degrees) so no damage to enzymes or other nutrients. Planning on getting the one that accommodates gate valves next.
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Great for liquefying crystalized honey, very impressive!!!
Great for liquefying crystalized honey, very impressive!!!
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Wrong Voltage
Ordered the 240v model, I received the 120v model.
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THEY WORK GREAT!
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!!!!!!!
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Hot Deal! Works great and better than expected!
Hot Deal! Works great and better than expected!
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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!
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Well made heater
This heater works great for warming my honey and is very well made.
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Great product
Great Product! This was very helpful for slowly melting my palm oil. It took almost a full 24 hours but it was worth it!
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Wow! This is awesome!!I
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!
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Perfect heated solution for my honey.
Perfect heated solution for my honey. Heats up great and evenly, thank you!
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We absolutely love our Bee blanket.
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?!
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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.
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Bee Blanket great for melting pails of Coconut Oil.
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.
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Five stars, excellent value for the $$
Five Stars – works great for de-crystallizing my buckets if honey. Excellent value!
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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.
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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.
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Very slow warming up honey
This may be OK if you do not mind waiting 24 hours or so to warm up your honey. This is only 120 watts.
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The bee blanket is convienent
The bee blanket is convienent bit inconsistent on heating a 5 gallon bucket of honey. Each and every time, the both 1/5 of a bucket never liquified and remains crystallized. Take me 3-4 days to liquefy 4/5’s a bucket.
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It fits well and works perfectly
It fits well and works perfectly
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Good product, works as stated
Good product, works as stated
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Very effective honey warming blanket
“I’ve had this for a couple of years now and it has worked very well. I will probably get one or two more this year.”
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Good tool for a beekeeper
Met my expectations!
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Good heater
Good heater
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“Keeps honey from cristallizing”
“Keeps honey from cristallizing”
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Works great fast filling
I have 5 gallon pails of honey and was looking for a easy way to warm them to facilitate filling honey jars. I tried a heating pad but the heat was not uniform and they have a safety cutout that turns them off after a couple of hours. I found this blanket and was concerned it would get the honey too warm since it does not have an adjustment. The blanket works great it warmed the honey to just a little over 100 and kept it at that temp until the whole 5 gallons were warm. I increased the effectiveness of the blanket by putting insulation on the top and bottom of the pail.
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Soap Base oils bucket
We use this for our base oils for our cold process soap and it works great! Keeps the oils nice and liquid, strapped on easy, warmed up no problem!
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Works as expected
It liquified a 5 gallon honey bucket in a couple of days.
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Must have for beekeepers
This bee blanket is the best thing to have to restore honey to its natural state.
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This little heater works great
These little heaters are great for small honey operations. I use these to decrystallize buckets prior to going into the bottling tank. They’ll liquefy a fully crystallized bucket in 2-3 days. Really nice quality and US made
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Works ok but slow
Tried to heat honey supper slow if you have the time it works ok
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Not as good as hoped
I got this to help with my stubborn crystallized honey buckets. I put this blanket on one bucket about a week before I was goi g to fill jars for the holidays. The very outside started to melt and made it easier to use a ladle to spoon from around the sides into jars but never reached the middle of the bucket. After being plugged in for a week and next to the heater vent and still can’t run out if the honey gate at the bottom. Not super happy. But better than it was.
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Works so well on crystallized honey. 2-3 days back to liquid honey
Works so well on crystallized honey. 2-3 days back to liquid honey
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Way slower than my other warmer
“Day 4 and I’m still waiting for a bucket to decrystallize, stirring a couple of times a day to incorporate.
If I didn’t have a different type of warmer to compare, I might not realize how painfully slow the blanket is. But, my other warmer transforms a 5 gallon bucket in 24 hours.”
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Very nice product that is well made. Thank you!
Very nice product that is well made. Thank you!
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Highly recommend
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.
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Works great! It helps de-crystallize my buckets of honey
This Bee Blanket works great! It helps de-crystallize my buckets of honey.
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Works Great!!!
Followed the advice of others and placed on styrofoam, stirred occasionally and heated a solid to 5 lb pail to liquid in 2 days.
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Works; Needs Insulation when Temps are Below 70F
Works great. Unfortunately I needed to wrap the entire unit with a comforter to get the honey to liquify, otherwise it was forever recrystalizing 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.
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Expensive. Not the snuggest of fits.
“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.”
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A must have for any sideline Beekeeper.
A must have for any sideline Beekeeper.
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Great product, works as advertised
Great product, works as advertised
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A must have!
“When processing honey and straining between 600, 400 and 200 Micron screen’s, it’s imperative to keep the honey in a fluid (not hot) state in order to have it run through. The bee blanket kept the honey warm, without hot spots so that as it went throughout the process, it was done quickly and with very little effort.
We didn’t have one of these last year, but wish we would have after using it.”
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Five Stars
bought this to help with bottling, works great
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Does what it’s supposed to do so far
“I gave this 5 stars because it does what it says. I’d would prefer to give it 4.5 because I think it might be made a tad more convenient. I do use this for 5 gallon buckets of honey with honey gates on them, and I wish I would’ve bought this years ago.
PROS: It liquefies honey and makes it super easy to bottle. Easy to use, and has what seems like a high quality clasp for the strap. I had about 3 gallons of fairly well crystallized honey (not rock hard yet, but definitely not stir-able) that it liquefied in about 3 days without stirring (maybe less since I didn’t check). Ambient temperature averaged about 67 degrees F. Materials/Product seems well made. I can’t speak to longevity and durability, but so far it seems to work well for the several days of run-time I’ve had it on a bucket. I will update my review next year if I have any input.
CONS: Not really true ‘cons’ here… The location of where the power source attaches might be better located near the bottom, but this could also make it easier to accidentally crimp/crush the cord with a 62 lb honey bucket. I think it could also benefit from a 2nd strap lower on the blanket. There also seems to be too much excess material on the bottom of the blanket. It’s nearly 2 inches wide, so it has a tendency to push the blanket up and/or away from the bucket. None of these are deal breakers from me, than just observations that may make it even better. I know the manufacturer states they’re happy to customize their products for us, but these changes are likely low cost for them to do.
Ambient temps do matter, so keep your expectations realistic if your trying to warm a bucket in your 40-50 degree garage in the winter. Maybe keep it off the floor and surround it with some cheap insulation, or even old blankets.
I’ll probably buy another one of these to make it easier to just ‘bottle on demand’ for my honey customers.”
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Worth the $
Works well. No issues.
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Fits 5 gallon bucket very well.
No dislikes here. Has worked like a charm every time I need to use it.
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I recommend to to all bee keepers
These work great need a second one because of the cold weather, recommend this to all the bee keepers !!
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AWESOME
Works great. Heated the honey up to the perfect temperature to pour.
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Works great for warming my honey
“I had some thick honey that I harvested in the late winter from a hive whose bees died over the winter. It was in a 400 micron strainer in the top of the bucket, and it just wouldn’t strain because it was too thick. I put on the Bee Blanket and set the bucket on a seed starting mat. It took more than a day to start softening up, so I moved the the Bee Blanket up higher on the bucket, even with the top and put another heating mat on top. That did it!
Attaching the Bee Blanket around the bucket handle was a bit awkward and probably lost a lot of heat, but it worked. The cutout for the valve is a great asset, also.”
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Good Product
Works good takes about more than 24 hrs to melt our 5 gallon bucket of honey
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Just what I needed
Took a little over one day to turn a 5 gal bucket of crystallized honey into liquid honey.
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Perfect solution, wrap it and walk away!
I received the BeeBlanket this week and wrapped it around this 5 gallon pail full of honey. In 18 hours it has reached a temp of 102. It is the perfect solution to heating up the honey. I am no longer monitoring the temperature of the honey on the stove, just wrap the blanket around the pail and walk away. It is a bit loose, so I used small rubber bungee straps to keep it tighter to the pail. Very happy with the BeeBlanket!
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It works
Works ok needs a heat gauge and maybe a timer but does the trick
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Did the job
This blanket warmed the honey (4 gals) up just enough to uncrystalize in a few days. Didn’t have to think if too hot or too warm. Also with no timer didn’t need to check on every few hours.
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Will not over heat honey.
The heating element should be tward the bottom of the bucket, but since it has the valve cut out it its out the top. I had this on overnight and dont think it fully warmed the bottom of the bucket. It seams to only have a heater band like other models, but has the full jacket to help distribute or hold heat in. The cord connection is right where the strap to tighten down is, and gets in the way. Maybe the next up grade will have a top and bottom strap.
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Wish it got warmer
Doesnt produce much heat. Had to be on for a long time to warm through the honey
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Works fine, worth the money
Works fine, worth the money
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Takes a long time to fully liquefy crystallized honey bucket
This will warm and thin partiality liquid honey really well. If the honey is completely crystallized, it will not completely liquify it, even after several days.
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Best and most reliable honey warmer for your crystallized raw honey.
Terrific product! It has a controlled temperature that does not allow the honey to overheat, thereby destroying the nutrients that people love about raw honey. The higher the glucose density, the faster raw honey will crystallize, and all my honey was solid by Thanksgiving. My 4 gallon bucket was liquified in about 36 hours. Beautiful and effortless.
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Works like a charm!
“Plugged it in and it works! as advertised!”
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Great, Melted the honey to perfection!
Great, Melted the honey to perfection!
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A Great Product
We are very happy with this product to warm our honey buckets. We are a small family business and I ordered this product despite the hesitation of my husband and son. They are very impressed with the warmth and the fact all of it is directed to the bucket and not escaping to the air. If we grow our business we will order more! I am thrilled for less sticky mess!
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Everything went great
Everything went great
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Works great for my purpose.
Did just whatI I expected it to do. My honey was not crystalized but cold and thick. This blanket warmed up my honey so I could filter and bottle it.
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Works great, I bought another one
Our needs increased so we bought another of the same brand
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Quality 5 gallon bucket heater
“Blanket could have been about 6 inches longer for my use.”
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Must have honey heater
Can’t believe I didn’t get this before, won’t be without one again.
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Great. Longer cord than previous model
Great improvement with longer cord but same xlnt quality as prior model. I’m still using older version going on 3 years.
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Takes awhile
“Took 4 days to get to a point I can poor so plan for that.”
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You need a little patience but it works
You need a little patience it takes a couple of days and stir once to get crystallized honey all melted.
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Works perfectly!
Works perfectly for saefly warming my crystallized honey
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Perfect for crystallized honey
“Working well so far. One 5 gallon bucket cleared up.”
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Honey bucket
“They should make the blanket so i goes on the bottom of the bucket also.”
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Perfect for honey buckets
Perfect for honey buckets. We use this to keep honey liquefied in 5 gal buckets. The cut out for the honey gate works great and the blanket warms the honey at a very mild temp so the honey is not cooked.
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Wish I would’ve bought this sooner!
I was skeptical when I purchased this because some of the reviews said it would not melt crystallize honey. I had two buckets that were pretty hard but not completely solid and it melted both of them within a few days. I restrain both buckets to make sure I got any large particles out and had maybe a 1/2 pint of thick sugar that the strainer caught. Glad I took the chance!
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Surprised
Put it on a solid crystallized 5 gal. Pail on a Sunday afternoon and by Wednesday morning was 90% liquefied at a temperature of 100 F. My only recommendation would be to have another closure strap near the bottom but velcro solved that easily. Great product.