Excellent run here +6 by late afternoon. Started dripping at 11:30 and was full bore by 1.
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Excellent run here +6 by late afternoon. Started dripping at 11:30 and was full bore by 1.
Anybody else having problems with sand/nitre this year? Been a pain since day 1 this season. Don’t have a reversible pan or a 2nd syrup pan so need to shut down and clean about every 100 gal. Tried to go further the other day and baked it on pretty good. Lucky I didn’t scorch them! Had a thick sludge that looked like chocolate pudding in the pre filters that day. Wondering why so much worse this year? Because it’s been such a dry winter?
Only my second year doing this, but I also have a lot more nitre than last year and it blocked my filters on my vacuum filter for the first time. I could see having to drain and clean my pan sometime next week.Quote:
Originally Posted by jungmaria
I'm also having trouble with sugar sand this year, I'll have to filter my syrup a second time or let it settle, pour off then filter the remainder.
Also had the chocolate pudding nitre the other day,usually can filter 25 gallons through the filters,now it’s pushing it for 15Quote:
Originally Posted by jungmaria
Other than the short run in mid February we haven’t had sand issues here Jungmaria and we’re not that far away from you around Tamworth as the crow flies. Now that I’ve said that I’m sure the next boil it’ll show up.
The second syrup pan is a good way to go if you’re able. We have one and switch out after every boiling day. We don’t use an RO and don’t have permeate water to clean the pan. We reuse the same batch of water and Parlor Brite dairy cleaner to soak in the pan for the day. Scale rinses right out after that.
Interesting I've done three batches and mine also very sugary this year I don't mind though just extra filtering work syrup is tasty
Hmmm I don't seem to have the nitre problem everyone else is having. At least not yet, season's still young. Have about 12l of nearup, plan to finish batch #1 tonight.
ETA limestone....is Parlor Brite inert? Like it def is ok to use to clean sugaring pans? Bruce?
My first batch was OK. 2nd one I finished last night was terrible....
Oh no. What was wrong with 2nd batch?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vandy