The Honey Pump
Our custom honey pump fits our 12 oz honey jars comfortably. These pumps make everyone's lives less sticky and dispense just the right amount of sweet goodness. If you've tasted honey at our shop, then you've experienced their ease to pump! This is a necessary accessory for any honey lover!
Tips For Use & Cleaning
Before use
We recommend washing and drying all pump parts well before the first use. Additionally, the first time you use your pump we recommend using a little bit of the honey in your jar first! Our 12oz jars are filled to the tippy-top and adding the pump will displace the honey in the jar (and no one enjoys a sticky mess).
Best Practices
If you don't use your honey every day, it's a good idea to keep it somewhere warm or give it a warm water bath every few weeks to keep the honey flowing and avoid any issues with crystallization in the pump. If you find your honey is crystallizing quickly or frequently, the pump may not be the best solution for you.
Crystallized Honey
Crystallization is natural and occurs over time in nearly all raw honeys (Tupelo Honey is a rare exception to this). If you do not use your pump regularly or your honey crystallizes quickly, you may find that the pump becomes clogged with crystallized honey. To decrystallize the honey, you can put your entire jar in a hot water bath. If that doesn't get things moving, you may need to remove your pump and run hot water through it and then allow it to soak in hot water for about 20 minutes to move the crystallized honey through the pump. Remember! Honey is shelf-stable unless it is exposed to moisture, so bee sure to completely dry your pump before reinserting it!
What is Honey?
Learn more about honey and all things bee-related!
How to Use Honey
Explore recipes and other ideas for how to use honey at home!
About Saratoga Tea & Honey Co.
Our passion for teas...
We are delighted to be able to share one of the largest and most varied collections of single origin traditional teas on the East Coast with our communi·tea. Personally curated by owner Hayley, these teas come to us from small farms and collectives and represent the best of their terroirs and production styles. While wondering our shelves in-person or online, you will discover familiar favorites like English Breakfast and Long Jing (Dragonwell) alongside rare teas like Shan Lin Xi and herbal tisanes blended for mindfulness, inflammation, and much more.
& bees...
Raw honey is one of nature's most marvelous gifts. Not only is honey a marvel of energy-giving carbohydrates fortified with antioxidants, minerals and beneficial enzymes - making it the healthiest natural sugar - honey comes in a rainbow of flavors and varieties with something for everyone to appreciate and enjoy. From dark, robust honeys like Buckwheat and Chestnut to light or amber honeys like Tupelo or Orange Blossom, the subtle and sometimes not so subtle flavor differences between varietal honeys lend themselves to extraordinary flavor combinations and experimentation in the kitchen, on the charcuterie board, or in your favorite cup of tea.
all started with our Queen Bee!
A trained chef, Hayley's vision for Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. has been her entire lifetime in the making. Though she was still drinking espresso at the time, the Tea & Honey seeds were planted in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants with training and appreciation for food and beverage as not just sustenance, but experience and hospitality. Her time spent as a chef-instructor at Jacques Pépin's French Culinary Institute introduced her first to matcha (and its ability to enhance sustained and steady focus), then to the subtleties of single-origin traditional teas like high mountain Taiwanese oolong. As a celebrated and awarded taster and master of culinary arts, in 2015 Hayley opened the doors to Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. Since then, she has cultivated a communi·tea for discovering rare and exciting teas, extraordinary raw honeys & unique gifts produced by small farmers and artisans from around the world.