Filtering with diatomacious earth in cone filter

[GWebb]

To anyone out there with filtering experience. I'm a backyarder and don't intend to go with pressure filters (not yet anyway). Is there any reason not to use diatomaceous earth with a cone filter process? I stir it in the finished syrup just before dumping in the filter assembly. It grabs a lot of the stuff that will get through prefilters and orlon filter. Seems to make a much clearer syrup in the end.

[82cabby]

Someone with more experience will be able to answer better, but I suspect without the pressure of the pump the D.E. will clog the filter and nothing will get through.

[4 Paws Sugar Shack]

The de with most certainly clog the cone filter. I tried it many moons ago and could barely get a drop through. You need the pressure to help make a layer of cake. Otherwise it will just stay suspended throughout the syrup. I would just invest in using more pre filters, I use to use a minimum of 4 inside my cone filter and always had clear syrup.