Filtering with diatomacious earth in cone filter
To anyone out there with filtering experience. I'm a backyarder and don't intend to go with pressure filters (not yet anyway). Is there any reason not to use diatomaceous earth with a cone filter process? I stir it in the finished syrup just before dumping in the filter assembly. It grabs a lot of the stuff that will get through prefilters and orlon filter. Seems to make a much clearer syrup in the end.
1st year tapped 5 trees, boiled in pans on rock fire - really smokey taste
2021 - 20 taps - 4 Gal on barrel stove and pans
2022 - 9.1 Gal - 41 taps this year. 14 + 7 on 3/16" gravity vacuum. 20 in buckets/bags. DIY RO system - 2/3 water gone - amazing.
2023 - 59 taps: 25 on 3/16" vacuum line/pump, 30 on 3/16" natural vacuum, 4 on bags. New 2x3 Badgerland pan anxious to try.