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If I understand you correctly you are saying you left your pans full of syrup from last year?! Or do you mean since your last boil? Most people with continuous flow evaporators don't empty their pans out between boils to maintain their gradient but never heard leaving them full all year. I can't see how it would keep. If this is the case then I would think most definitely this is where your off taste is coming from.
Yes, I left syrup in the arch since last year. Of course the arch was covered...but I guess I misunderstood what I thought people were doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clinkis
To clean the pans, we leave some syrup in them.
We leave the last bit of syrup to remain in the pans after the season....it rots, smells absolutely nasty.
Wait a month if you can stand it , and then one shot with the power washer and the pans are left nice and shiny and put away for the rest of the year.
Well, I think we have discovered the reason for the off-tasting syrup......
Well, this is the 2nd day the temps were close but no cigar...and now I am sitting looking at beautifully clean SS pans with transparent sap in them...dang, I so want to cook. Here's wishing for just a couple of degrees more.
I've had 1.5L of sap per tap over the past 24 hours, and it continues to flow today. Amazingly everything was thawed at 7:00am this morning so I started boiling then. Check your buckets folks...;-]
I collected 92L this morning. I'm a happy boiler now!
Woot, WTG!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Run Forest Run!
What a day! 137L! The 15 sugar maples that I tap gave up 113L today. From the 15 soft maples, I collected 24L. It's easy to tell that the sugar maples are ready to really kick into high gear now as the soft maples slow down. I started boiling this morning with a full storage pail and after boiling all day long I STILL have a full storage pail. Time to update my signature. :)
I've forgotten how long it takes to turn an arch full of nothing but fresh sap into my first draw-off. I've boiled for 18 hours and I think I am an hour or two away from my first draw (now tomorrow morning). Sound right?? No sap today.