Hi all, this is my first post in this very interesting group. We are in Southern NB on the Canadian East Coast. We are 3 families together and ave close to 300 taps between our adjoining lots. We started 3 years ago with about 140 taps and have gone up from there.
So, I found lots of nice builds and devices to make maple cream, but I was interested to find something for the smaller scale, such as making only 1 quart or so. After seeing several videos on youtube, I seen one in particular that looked like a larger version of what my small ice cream machine does. The Scrapers/paddles stay put and the bowl itself does the turning.
So yesterday I tough I would pull the ice cream machine bowl out of the freezer and let it thaw to room temp in a sink full of water. During that time I brought a quart of syrup to 232F and then cooled to 75F or so. Washed the mixing bowl and started it up. Poured the syrup in it and although it took 50 minutes, I was able to watch a full episode of "The Walking Dead" I ended up with nice cream and no sore arm.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/X1EMjdwbsU4u5xbo2
I tried searching to see if anyone else on the site was doing this already but did not see anything so I thought I'd share for the smaller batch makers out there.
dp