Sunrise Metal Water jacket Canner

[butler]

Anyone know how to look at there products and prices...specifically a small size water jacket canner....

[jmayerl]

http://sunriseevaporator.com

[palmer4th]

If u go under dealers they have price. I was wondering if anyone on here has one from them and how they like it?

[butler]

Found it...thanks guys...those prices are unbelievable! $500 for a water jacket canner and the the steam hood prices are great too! Anyone have experience with there equipment...it sure looks nice?

[rjines]

Purchases their 16 gal. Water jackets canned last year. Works very well, I put a maple guys foot activated bottling valve on it and it sure makes life a whole lot cleaner.

[butler]

What did it cost with shipping if you don't mind me asking

[blac]

X2 how much shipped?

[DougM]

I'm going to chime in on this thread instead of starting a new one, now that we have had a chance to use the 13-gallon canner/finisher we bought from Sunrise before the season started. We had seen their products at a couple of Indiana Maple Syrup Association meetings and they seemed of good quality, especially for the price. We bought the full setup with the canner/finisher pan, rack, burner, etc., through Kaplan.

Sunrise is about 3 hours from us, so my dad drove up to pick up the unit. It was already shrink-wrapped & ready to go when he arrived, so he loaded it up & left. After he got it home we found that the lid is not plumb, it won't sit flat on the pan. Two corners are always up in the air. A minor annoyance, maybe, but annoying all the same. Also, one of the legs had a bolt left out of it. Once again something relatively minor, but not a good show of quality control on their end...especially for something handmade.

All of the welds are clean & neat, the pan finish is nice, but last weekend one of our guys found out the hard way that the underside of one rim of the pan was not de-burred before it was formed. He picked up the pan without gloves on & sliced his finger pretty good. So now we have another small but irritating & unsafe defect that wasn't addressed before they sent the unit out the door.

At 3 hours away we aren't going to just drive it back up there & have them take care of it, and someone who may order a unit & have it shipped from even greater distance definitely isn't going to do that. We can de-burr the edge ourselves in just a few minutes, but that's not the point, it should have been taken care of before we picked it up.

Overall it works pretty well, but the two-burner unit seems a bit undersized for re-heating a full pan, if the syrup temperature has dropped off.

YMMV, of course, but we have been less than impressed with the overall quality of the unit.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Is Sunrise owned by the Amish?

[DougM]

Yes...see http://sunriseevaporator.com/

[DougM]

A follow up to my earlier post:
I just got a call from Andy DeLivron at Kaplan. He saw my post about the finisher, called Sunrise to let them know and then called me to see what they could do to make it right, even going so far as to offer a replacement.
Since the rough edge on the pan is relatively minor, and we have replaced the missing bolt they are going to replace our lid, that will take care of the biggest problem.
Kudos to those guys for following up & making the effort to fix the problem.