Chunk honey is normally produced in shallow frame supers with thin surplus foundation in the frames. The foundation is held at the top of the frames with a wooden wedge or melted beeswax.

Bees are managed in much the same way as required for comb honey, except that supers are added above the queen excluder. The queen is permitted to lay her brood in a shallow super above the full-depth hive body in early spring. When the super is about three-fourths full of honey and brood, the queen must be moved down to the standard hive body and confined there with a queen excluder. After four or five days, place an empty super with frames and foundation below the full one but above the queen excluder so that the queen cannot lay eggs in it. Add more supers as needed. Place an empty super on top of the stack until the bottom one is three-fourths full, then reverse them. Continue adding supers in this way. Remove supers above a bee escape and control swarming in the same way you would control colonies managed for comb honey.

Cut the comb from the frame into enough chunks to fill a jar. Place the chunks on a screen and let them drain in a warm room for several hours before you place them in the jar. Empty spaces in the jar around the comb are filled with liquid honey which has been heated to 140° F before it is poured over the comb. Then label the product for sale as chunk honey. Heating the liquid honey delays crystallization for several weeks. Types of honey which crystallize quickly, such as alfalfa or wild aster, are not well suited to chunk honey production since they crystallize on the grocer's shelves.