Just two thoughts from my last boil and filtering.

I had mentioned that as soon as I remove a filter, I put it into a bucket of clean water. I let the filters sit overnight in the bucket and the next day they easily and quickly get clean under hot water.

I did my upside down sailor hat without the optimizer for the filtering. This time with the increase amount of syrup, they lost their shape. Last year I would just order the optimizer, this year trying to go on the cheap, I will have to find a redneck way to help keep the sailor hat shape.