Hi all,
My Name is Dave and my daughter and I started making syrup about 3 seasons ago. Last year we produced about 2.5 gallons of syrup. We collect in 5 gallon buckets and use a 55 gallon drum, 2 hotel pan evaporator. We seem to run in to problems in the final filtering stage. We use a pre filter inside a synthetic filter and we hold the filters over each jar using a stainless steel cone. It is an extremely slow process to get the syrup to flow through the filters. I’m not sure if we’re doing something wrong or if this is normal. Do you have any suggestions that would improve our process? Any guidance you can give is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dave