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[Russell Lampron]

Jim my former son in law did the same thing to mine (burnt the front pan bad) a couple of years ago. Your pan may be warped now but that doesn't seem to affect the way it boils. If letting the sap sit in it and vinigar doesn't clean the burnt stuff off the pan cleaner acid works real well. I don't like to let the sap soak in my pans, the mold and sour sap smell are hard to get rid of.

Sweetwoodmaple the season never ends around my place. The boiling and making syrup does but the cleaning and canning take up a quite a bit of time not to mention the tubing maintainance and wood cutting etc.

Russ

[sweetwoodmaple]

It never really ends here either, but I've been at Flank speed since November. Would like some half throttle running for a while, if you know what I mean.

Looking forward to the Hatteras beach house in late May. Some fishing and relaxing are in order.

[brookledge]

I have seen a setup where it required two very strong men to lift the pans off and attempt to rotate the pans with the fire still going or atleast burning at a low rate. After seeing that I said I never want to do that. I boil by myself and do not ever want to rely on getting help to lift the pans all the time. I like my revolution pans
Keith

[hard maple]

A burnt pan does not effect the way it boils it only effects the depth. used to be 3/4" get use to 1 3/4" reverse flow is a vermont thing, look to the north, who uses a reverse flow in canada????big ole fat goose egg!!! I'd rather rotate my pans than burn them any day.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

They can keep the cross flow pans north of the border. I like a reverse flow pan and a cross flow would be an aggrevation in my opinion and a danger trying to reverse by myself. :? You can burn up any pan if you let it get too much sugarsand in it.

[hard maple]

brandon
is that how mapleman burnt his pan, from a build up of sugarsand?

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Not sure. :?

[mapleman3]

probably a number of reasons why... maybe some sugar sand, but mostly that when I switched sides, more syup was at the drawoff box that I put the float in for that boiling session, and when I fired up, I was doing a bunch of other things at the same time... heating up the canner, dumping the gathering tank into the bulk tank.. eating supper...moving about the sugarhouse getting ready for the nights worth of boiling... I was watching the temp at the drawoff but I should have drawn some to check the next section in.. which I do sometimes but not this time...all I can say is I was tired and not paying enough attention... so the smell of burning syrup wafted across my nostrils :? ops:

[hard maple]

yikes!!!! all I can say is when a pan burns it is a terrible thing. No matter what kind it is.