I am so tired of the filtering process.
I use a cone filter off the evaporator. Then I reheat and filter in a water jacketed flat filter for canning.
Filters always seem to clog up. I use a felt filter with several prefilters. Every time I filter a batch, I remove the top filter after it gets clogged and pour the hot, backed-up syrup into the next pre-filter. No matter how many times I've done this, I never fail to spill filtered niter into the clean syrup, burn my hands, or both.
Last night, after a full day of boiling, a pre-filter ripped during a filter change and spilled niter into the clean syrup batch.
Wasn't happy.
I know the answer is a filter press. But they are expensive.
Anybody have any experience using a vacuum filter press like the one in the video below?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWZWj-CUyo
Thanks
Mark