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I say "What did you do, pizz your pants?" He said "Yeah" Cant make this stuff up.
Awesome run today. 8)
Was wondering what you are using for a pan on top?
birch trees can also be tapped, but i think they take about 50 gal. or more of sap to make a gallon of syrup.it's supposed to be very good.
First off, I just want to thank SLT for starting this topic and everyone who has responded. It got my remembering some great times from 25-30 years ago and consequently, got me excited about doing this again with my own kids. We now have 8 taps in and my kids are loving the experience (and so am I )One question I wanted to ask is about boiling it off because I can't remember what we did. Not running real well right now but generally, how often should I boil? Do you "small timers" wait till you have atleast 10 gallons of sap or something or just boil off what you get daily and keep adding finished product to your syrup jar? Was actually thinking I should have enough sap to make atleast a quart of syrup before starting the process. Would love to hear from some of the experts on this. Thanks guys.
It's just a big s.s. lasgana pan, 18" X 24" or something like that, $25 on ebay. A couple full steam tray pans would work just as good if not better.
Now that GameFisher has educated me on posting pics it will work better.
Taped 12 trees yesterday, I drilled the holes my 8yr old son tapped in the spiles and my 6yr old daughter hung the buckets. In years past I used turkey boilers to boil the sap, it worked well but I felt it cost to much. This year I made a custom wood stove and stainless steel evaporator pan with a preheater tank I'll try to take some pic's my new set up after I get it set up today.
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Brace, how much sap did it take to make that tin of Skoal on the table next to the syrup?
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boil, boil, toil and trouble....I'm making up a batch right now, sap ran good today.