Black Menba Honey Extractor Uncapping Needle Roller for Beekeeping tool

Each roll opened up the caps with little effort.

Just extracted a medium super, used this tool for most of the frames. The advantage over slicing off cappings is that all of the honey stays in the frame and gets extracted in the extractor, if you cut off cappings you're cutting off honey as well and you have to separate that honey from the cappings, which adds work and you lose honey. Also, you leave all of the cells in the frame at full height so it's less work for the bees to repair and rebuild. The cappings that I strained from 2 1/2 gallons of honey was about 1 cup. Not good if you're trying to collect wax, but very good if you want max honey yield. This is a tool for small volume/ hobby beekeepers.This efficiently punctures the cappings, but some honey and cappings get stuck to the tines and it's difficult to remove it. After 6 of 10 frames, I started to use a standard dining fork to scape the cappings off/ open, which was a little slower but did not collect cappings. 30 seconds per side, 1 minute per frame, not a lot of time. Extracted 100% of the honey with minimum wax to strain out. If you have only a few supers to extract, I recommend that you use a fork or capping scratcher. This roller is more trouble than it's worth relative to other methods.

This opens the caps but creates a mess. This tool doesn't cost very much and is easy to use, but you have frames of honey left to drain over night in order to get all the available honey out. Using an extractor, the crumbled wax sticks to the wall of the extractor, requiring double straining.

works very well

Easy to use and saves considerable time. Does create a little more waste wax in the honey