Hi all,

Went inside to plate my dinner for about 10 minutes with temp reading about 214F in a 2x4 divided pan before the day's first drawoff. Came back out and thermometer was showing about 20 degrees over boiling, quickly spiking to what looked like (it was a frantic moment) almost 30 over, so 242F. Half of the last channel by the drawoff thermometer was pretty gooey looking bubbles, depth was fine, about 1.5". I immediately started drawing off (it barely wanted to go through my cone gravity prefilters) and dumped about 3 or 4 gallons of fresh sap into the first channel from my !oh sh*t bucket! which quickly brought the temp in the last channel back down to 212. I continued drawing off the definitely not finished syrup in an effort to immediately dilute the overcooked stuff before it could cool and crystalize. I did smell slight burnt sugar when I first got out there, but I tasted the drawn off stuff, which was over-diluted at the time and it was fine.

Did I save it?! I only have about 35 more gallons to boil in today's batch. I don't want to bottle and then find out it all turns to sugar.

Is there a maximum temp that's the point of no return? No hydro in that moment, so all I have to go off of is the temps.