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Boiled today. The cold front was coming in, with strong winds. It was -11° C (12.2 F) with the wind chill. I made 1.75 L of golden syrup.
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I tucked my cone filter into a sailor hat shape and it’s held it’s shape for the most part and it did work better.
Sap should run today and tomorrow. I added a second fire bowl for the expected sap flow next week.
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The sap is not running quite as fast as I expected today, but that might change. It might be the foot (31 cms) of snow that fell the other day.
If the long range forecast holds, in ten days we should see a big reduction in the snow on the ground. There is lots to melt though.
Didn’t you have a pavilion you boiled under last year.? I know you did a major downsizing this year, did you also move the location of where you are boiling.?
[QUOTE=Swingpure;413819]Sap should run today and tomorrow. I added a second fire bowl for the expected sap flow next week.
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The sap is not running quite as fast as I expected today, but that might change. It might be the foot (31 cms) of snow that fell the other day.
If the long range forecast holds, in ten days we should see a big reduction in the snow on the ground. There is lots to melt though.[/QUOTE
The sap ran well today, better than expected. My buddy who has a larger setup, collected 900 L of sap. That almost fills his new 1100 L storage tank.
I collected 45 gallons of sap, and it took me 12 hours to boil, finish, filter and bottle 5.25 L of fabulous tasting syrup. I finished boiling in the moonlight of the snow moon.
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[QUOTE=Brien;413820]Didn’t you have a pavilion you boiled under last year.? I know you did a major downsizing this year, did you also move the location of where you are boiling.?
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Originally Posted by Swingpure
I still have the pavilion. I wasn’t sure with an open fire if it would be safe to boil there. I think it would be okay, but one spark, in the wrong place, on the wood frame, could give me a greater boil than planned.
I am thinking about moving there next year. I will see what lessons I have learnt this year and maybe do something’s different. Whatever I do, I have to remember it is a hobby and don’t let my personality to do more, prevail.
These are some of the colours of the syrup I have made this year.
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Nice colour on your syrup.
Just two thoughts from my last boil and filtering.
I had mentioned that as soon as I remove a filter, I put it into a bucket of clean water. I let the filters sit overnight in the bucket and the next day they easily and quickly get clean under hot water.
I did my upside down sailor hat without the optimizer for the filtering. This time with the increase amount of syrup, they lost their shape. Last year I would just order the optimizer, this year trying to go on the cheap, I will have to find a redneck way to help keep the sailor hat shape.
Maybe use 3 wooden spoons tied at the top to create a tripod sitting in the bucket would work. Get new cheap ones at Dollarama.
Thanks, I will give that a try. Tomorrow I am going to town and see if I’d an McQuiver some stainless steel items as well.
I did have a cone filter holder that I could have reversed and used, but sold it with all of my other stuff. I might buy one again, if I cannot get something to work that I like. https://youtu.be/Krq8hdv_lWQ?si=Z8dTh6rtuCKev4NN
I was impressed with the sailor hat idea.