Don’t know if I am doing this right. I have a Lapierr storm 2X8 cross flow evaporator and this is the first pan I have had that was not a batch pan. My question is, when making syrup with this do I leave out the plugs that connect the front two syrup boxes together. I have run through about 380 gal of sap and have not gotten any syrup off of it until I kept the two syrup boxes from mixing with each other by using one of the plugs that keeps the two pans from mixing. I thought I was to keep everything open and it would cook the sap in the front partition of the front pan until it was syrup? If so then I have something set up wrong. My pan is level and is not tilted to one side or the other. I do not have brix gage so I don’t know what the sugar content is coming out of the tree’s so I am not sure if it is low or not. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Tim Wagoner
T&K Farms
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Lapierre Storm 2X8 cross flow with homemade steam preheater hood
Zerro Milk storage tank with UV light
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