WF MASON
03-26-2005, 04:29 AM
A friend here the other day , he cooks on a GH Grimm 2'x8' - 2' syrup pan,as everyone else he's always looking for a way to inprove the quality of his syrup,
he contends that after he stops firing the evaporator to shut down , and has taken off syrup from the last compartment in the pan , he floods the pans some , he says as the evaporation takes place from the cooling overnite , the syrup in the center channels in the pan are very close to syrup the next day when its time to boil again. You get the evaporator boiling and the last compartment still reads low on your hydrometer, if you check the center compartments , it way past syrup and is making dark syrup in the hard boil.
He has started draining the front pan after the fire goes out , flooding the front pan from the flue pan and finishing the contents of the front pan in the finisher right away. He says the grade of syrup has been much better since he been doing this.
he contends that after he stops firing the evaporator to shut down , and has taken off syrup from the last compartment in the pan , he floods the pans some , he says as the evaporation takes place from the cooling overnite , the syrup in the center channels in the pan are very close to syrup the next day when its time to boil again. You get the evaporator boiling and the last compartment still reads low on your hydrometer, if you check the center compartments , it way past syrup and is making dark syrup in the hard boil.
He has started draining the front pan after the fire goes out , flooding the front pan from the flue pan and finishing the contents of the front pan in the finisher right away. He says the grade of syrup has been much better since he been doing this.