Eastern Ontario 2018

[Galena]

+1. Same here. I've actually let the hydrotherm start collecting dust. Doesn't need to be perfect for friends and family consumption. I take it to 219 and stop when I like the looks of the drip from ladle.

I understand, but for me, at 219 the syrup still comes off the ladle far too thready for my liking. I like to see very little thread, if any, and 3-4 big misshapen glops before I take it off the heat. And again. Maybe my glasstop stove is effing with the numbers, cause I've never finished a batch of my own on anyhting but that stove.

ETA: MchaelHH, cheesecloth won't be any use in keeping nitre out, unless maybe you have 10 or 20 layers of it going! Try paper coffee filters. Much smaller, a lot easier to handle and when they get saturated with nitre, chuck em in the fire.