What sugar and granule size do you guys use to for your maple cotton candy? I see that folks do a ratio of maple sugar but the only floss sugar that I see has flavors. Is the maple sugar that you use powdery or small granules?
What sugar and granule size do you guys use to for your maple cotton candy? I see that folks do a ratio of maple sugar but the only floss sugar that I see has flavors. Is the maple sugar that you use powdery or small granules?
About 300 taps
2'x6' air tight arch
Semi complete 12'x24' sugarhouse in Somers, CT
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Our sugar is pretty small and granular once sifted and we use that.
We use 4:1 (domino white, 4 lb and 1 lb maple sugar). Don't know about the small machines We have a commercial unit and it works very well. Good luck.
Regards,
Chris
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
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Just got done boiling for the day and had our family and friends over. Ratio was 5:1 in the Vivo machine. Doesn’t take much floss or sugar to make a lot of cotton candy. Do it in an open space if possible, my buddy’s wife said she got some stray floss on the cubbards doing it in the kitchen. It was only our 2nd time using, worked great.
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900