Not only that, but apparently it tends to boil "volcano-style", and if you have ever burnt (or "caramelized", to use the more elegant term) sugar, you know how sticky it is - now imagine a burning-hot drop of that sticking to your skin...

I got some molten sugar on my hand once. For how innocuous "hot honey" sounds, making this stuff really would be pretty white knuckle for me (ha ha).

It sticks to you. It stays hot enough to burn you, while burning you, for an unintuitively long time. I've burned myself blacksmithing a few times and accidentally brushed red metal with a finger.

None of those burns have ever came close to the brilliant white hot, long lasting agony of molten sugar.

It's also terrifying because the honey mix can expand 3-4x, quickly expanding beyond the container you're using.