We’ve been making cbd honey with a local California organic farm since 2018. We like to use 1:1 ratio of mct/cbd oil in 1lb jars, but honey sticks are a little different.
Oregon company charges 250$ for a 5lb bucket (4500 sticks) but if you add cbd they charge 900. We have sent several gallons so the 15k machine would have made sense from the start.
Crystallized honey can be restored by placing in a warm environment, like a double boiler, fireplace mantle in winter, or direct sunlight (if no cbd is in it).
Honey is water based and therefore does not mix with oil very well without an emulsifier, which I only know from trying to mix cbd oil into it and having it separate out after a day or two. Cbd isolate does the same.
LOL let me tell you… not one of the sticks comes out good, and you have inconsistent sizes and all this other bs. We spent 2 days and did 2,000 sticks and ended up throwing it in the trash. We sold a few boxes to stores and most of them leaked with that machine. Wooks are a no go for that.
yeah im imagining 3d printed jigs, have straws in a box, so u can dispense into the jigs. Jigs just snap together down the middle, so u can still get each end into the heat sealer.
1 person gets jigs ready, other person fills with unimatic.
U can probably do 10 per jig, and a jig every 20 seconds. 1800 per hour? ($20/hr, thats 2 cents per straw for labor)