I was going to use some ice cream pails from a local ice creamery. A local syrup producer said it will make my sap taste bad. Any truth to this?
ice cream pails
I was going to use some ice cream pails from a local ice creamery. A local syrup producer said it will make my sap taste bad. Any truth to this?
Maybe if they were making dill pickle or olive flavored ice cream! Lol I have been using plastic pails that have had all sorts of different food products in them and I have never had any complaints about the syrup tasting funny. Just wash them a couple of times and give them a good rinse.
2010 - 40 Taps
2011 - 100 Taps
2012 - 150 Taps or more!
2013 - Going to try for 200
2014 - Going to try for 200 plus!
New for 2012 - 2 x 4 Phaneuf Pro Deluxe Pans
Homemade Arch
14X16 Sugar Shack
40 - Hives of Honey Bees
They will be fine.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
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2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
I had used ice cream pails for years with no problems other than after about 8 years they get brittle and fall apart.
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