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And of course they missed the absolutely worse job I bet. The work it takes to keep she who must be obeyed from walking out the door or burying you someplace after so many months of hearing about maple syrup and the equipment and the trees and the evaporator etc.
I hear you there ken, my wifes sick of hearing about maple.
and the season isnt even here yet, although I was working on the
roof today.we cant drive anywere without me counting maples
as we drive along,or talking about maple. Im sure shes just going bla bla bla in her head.as I might when she speaks of some sale at coles:lol:
I am some glad they are not tapping my bush, when you start in with the drill at a upward angle, and finish strait in, alls I can see is a vacuum leak!!!
I can understand the differant names for items from decade to decade I do get a kick out of it. Now as far as the filming and showing them sitting around thats fine because could you amagine them trying to keep up with anyone of us cooking, running, checking,testing, pouring, filtering, checking, dumping, filling, cleaning,eating, filling, swearing, picking up, and doing all that in 1/2 hrs time and having 5 camera men try and follow and stay out of the shot.............NAH
I watched the show and had more maple questions than answers. Even the wife said "whats that thing on the drill"? I had never seen any one or heard of anyone crawling in the front of the arch to clean the flues. But I guess it can be done? Yep thats dirty!
Chris
They made it look like all you did was wait for this and wait for that to happen. I wasn't impressed at all with how it was depicted by Mike Rowe( was trying to sell his show, not knowledge). Now the sugar maker, he made us all look like we are slow and lazy and I'm not like that. Just think of the millions of people that saw that show or are going to see that show in repeats and how those who do not understand about the process are going to think. I would think that the maple associations would be up in arms over this depiction of all us and the product(just my opinion).
The only good thing is it advertised maple products.
I think Dirty Jobs is lacking material lately. He seems to get himself dirty on purpose. There is a reason why the brush is on a pole. Did you see him purposely smash the fire bricks out around the left side of the door? Surely the show pays for damages.
I didn't see any paint on him until he flung it about. Not impressed.
Yesterday I was dissapointed that I missed the show. Today, after hearing the reveiws, I'm not dissapointed any more.
However, after hearing the reveiws, I am very sorry that the sugaring picture millions of people now have in their minds was put there by this guy. What a terrible diservice they have done to all of us.
Steve
Steve I think from a sugarmakers perspective we could nitpick it all we wanted but to the average joe who does not know the process It seemed like it was okay. Heck they expalined they filter the bugs out of the sap and then it showed them filtering the syrup twice in a nice shiney filter press. Not to mention there kitchen was very clean and the equipment in there looked very good and they had on sanitary gloves as well. I think in the publics eye it would go over ok.
Did you notice the size of the filter press?? He only had a few plates in it. I think that was a 12" press, and was about 3' long. This place was definately set up for production, if they had the trees to support it!