Honey Extractor Uncapping Needle Roller for Beekeeping tool

Worthy of a review! This was my first harvest ever and I only had thirty medium frames to process. With that said however I have to say that this worked FAR better than anticipated based upon some of the reviews I read. I did all thirty frames in a row without cleaning the tool in any way in between. It didn’t “gum up” at all and did a great job piercing all cappings such that the extractor was able to get every last drop of honey. My honey was at an average moisture level of 16%, so it’s not like I had particular runny honey or any reason it would have been easier for me. I also very much appreciated the complete lack of mess and the fact that all wax was preserved and returned to my bees. It pierced the cappings and, of course, left a tattered appearance to the cells. The honey came directly out of the extractor and passed through a two stage, bucket mounted, strainer one time and yielded perfectly strained honey without any further filtering of any kind. After finishing I placed my supers back out on the hives and, without exaggeration, I went out just 18 hours later and removed the supers to find that my bees had cleaned and perfectly repaired any and all comb damage. Looked like brand new perfect comb! Ready to begin filling again. I never touched my decapping knife once and at this point I have no reason to believe I’ll ever use anything other than this simple tool for decapping. First harvest of 44.5 pounds of beautiful, dark, delicious honey officially in the books!

I'm not sure there's anything particularly special about this spiky uncapping roller versus any other Chinese-made spiky uncapping roller, but I give it five stars because it did its job well. I tried alternating it with an uncapping knife, but the knife made a huge mess. The roller just pricks over the top of each cell, just enough to let the honey come out in your spinner, but without dumping huge quantities of honey and wax in your uncapping vessel first. So I'm team roller all the way.

I actually bought this to pierce berries before going into the freeze dryer and it works perfectly for the task.

I had never harvested honey before, and bought this on a whim because it seemed like a better idea than using a knife to cut the caps off of the cells.Used it for the first time on virgin honeycomb, and it worked extremely well. Since I have not tried the ‘traditional’ method of de-capping I cannot comment on whether the centrifuging time was impacted, or if I missed honey. Very little pressure required - just like painting with a roller. A child could do it. In fact, a child DID do it.I can say for sure though that this was very tidy. I did not have to deal with the ‘cut’ wax caps, plus handling the frames where the caps had been roll-punctured was easy (they did not drip at all, easy to transfer into the centrifuge).Seemed less impact on the honeycomb, but I will not know for sure until I open the hive again to see how the bees are doing with the repairs.

Good quality

this product made extracting honey so much easier and really saved time

I recommend going old school and just use the fork. This helped uncap mostly but after extracting there was still lots of honey stuck and the frames just became messy.

what a time saver