Pop it in a freezer for the duration.

Thank you ccrbl. I was thinking of doing that but I couldn't imagine the big producers doing that. I'm glad we didn't order that 1/2 beef after all...

No, big producers will try to dry the uncapped honey using dehumidification, and while that will lower the water content, there's more to curing honey than drying it.

For example...

Goldenrod honey is often called rank. It's smells horrible while curing. Beehives stink, and novice beekeepers think they have foul brood or a dead animal in the hive.

If one routinely removes honey will not cured, then evanorates it dwon manually, one still has rank goldenrod honey. No wonder they say it's so awful.

But if you let the bees cure it down all the way, it's actually a nice honey... full bodied to be sure, but not rank.

So yes, a big beekeeper will take off honey prematurely and dry it himself. But that doesn't make good honey. It just makes dry nectar.

thank you again...