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That stinks Phoenix, I had a little better luck, this time. With a couple warm days on the horizon, wanted to get everything finished and bottled. Had about 14 gal. to boil down and add to Sat.'s. Was able to get it real close outside last night, only had to finish up about 10 minutes inside this morning before syrup. Best tweak of the whole system was buying a $25 s.s. 30 cup coffee urn from Amazon. I pre-heated with water as my syrup finished, dumped it, then clipped 2 pre-filters in it to pour my syrup into. Put the cover on to retain heat and then started peeling through the Mason jars, no ladling, etc. WORKED SLICK! 3.5 quarts from approx. 37 gal of sap and very little sugar sand to deal with. And exactly when can I expect my bottle of surup to arrive in the mail
Quote from: gamefisher on Mar 12, 2013, 07:05 AMThat stinks Phoenix, I had a little better luck, this time. With a couple warm days on the horizon, wanted to get everything finished and bottled. Had about 14 gal. to boil down and add to Sat.'s. Was able to get it real close outside last night, only had to finish up about 10 minutes inside this morning before syrup. Best tweak of the whole system was buying a $25 s.s. 30 cup coffee urn from Amazon. I pre-heated with water as my syrup finished, dumped it, then clipped 2 pre-filters in it to pour my syrup into. Put the cover on to retain heat and then started peeling through the Mason jars, no ladling, etc. WORKED SLICK! 3.5 quarts from approx. 37 gal of sap and very little sugar sand to deal with. And exactly when can I expect my bottle of surup to arrive in the mail This is way too much quality for your palate, you better play it safe and just stick to Aunt Jemimah.
This is way too much quality for you palate, you better play it safe and just stick to Aunt Jemimah.
Did you buy or build the new setup Ryan, looks great.
hey GF, you have a picture of this Urn? and how you set it up? thanks!
but what an improvement over the cinder blocks (easier on my back too). (Image removed from quote.)
Lost 5 gallons of sap last night!! Had it in a water jug on snow and the snow melted out from underneath it last night and tipped over, leaking it all out!!!
Not much to it, simple and effective. I get the bulk of the crud out by filtering off the evaporator pan with a wool filter. In the urn I just had two pre-filters, as the first one clogged removed and continued on. Really made clean up and bottling a snap, the worse part of this whole hobby imo.
rats! GF do you have it plugged in to keep things warm?
how much sap do you guys get before you boil......I'm setting on about 15 gallons now and I'm sure another 7-8 tomorrow. I'm thinking to start a batch tomorrow night.
I have a question if someone can help me out please... I'm going to start boiling tomorrow... First time I have done this much... About 47 gals of sap... I have 2 propane burners and 2, 7 or so gallon pots to boil in... My question is do I just keep adding sap to the pots when I have room in them till I'm out of sap? Thank You....
No, only put in enough sap so it stays an inch or two. You better start early with what you are using for pans and you better have some really deep pockets for more propane. You might boil 2 gal. per hour on that setup, heck, start now.