💬 Found an old jar of honey in the cabinet and learned it doesn't go bad

Last week I was cleaning the top shelf of our kitchen cabinet and found a glass jar of honey at the back. My mother in law brought it from her village near Karimnagar. I think that was 4 or 5 years ago. It had gone thick and a bit cloudy, with sugar crystals along the bottom. I was about to bin it. Then my husband stopped me. He said, wait, honey doesn't spoil. I said, of course it does, look at it. He pulled up a page on his phone. Apparently they found honey in old tombs in Egypt, thousands of years old. Still safe to eat. It's something about how little water there is in it, so nothing can grow. The cloudy part is just the sugar settling out. You warm the jar in a pan of hot water and it clears up. I felt silly, but I did it anyway. 10 minutes later it was clear and golden again. I tasted a spoon. It was perfect. Better than the stuff I buy now, if I'm honest, much more floral. Now I feel bad for the 2 or 3 jars I've thrown away over the years because they looked crystallised. That's probably about 500 rupees of honey gone in the bin. I'm not going to do the maths on the exact number. My mother in law was thrilled when I told her. She said, I told you so, about something she'd never told me. What other things have you found out about your kitchen that you'd been doing wrong? I'd love some more. If I'm throwing out food I could be eating, I want to stop. Salt, apparently, also doesn't go off. I've checked, and it really is true. I'm now suspicious of the whole expiry date business. Not honey though, honey is safe.

Honey that has turned thick with sugar crystals is just sleeping. My mother puts the jar in a bowl of warm water for 10 minutes and it turns clear again. A jar from a village near Karimnagar is something to guard, not bin. Did your husband also tell you about the honey found in ancient tombs? That one still surprises me.

Coconut oil does the same. I nearly threw out a whole jar when it went solid and cloudy in winter. My mother told me off on the phone. She said it just needs a bit of warmth, put it in the sun. I left it on the window sill for an hour and it was clear again. I felt about 12. Now I'm suspicious of everything I've ever thrown away from my kitchen.