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Sugaring 2013 – Test Boil, Part 3

Well with plenty of sap on hand, and the evaporator set up it was time to see what this baby can do!  I did a quick one hour boil with water to flush all the pans out before I was ready to get started with the maple sap.  I probably had between 32-35 gallons of […]

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Sugaring 2013 – Test Boil, Part 2

Setting up the stainless steel pans was fairly straight forward.  The evaporator came with pan gaskets, fittings & valves, and my thermometer.  All I needed to do was pick-up some Teflon tape and I was ready to set the pans in place. I started with the pan gasket. This is basically a high temperature woven […]

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Sugaring 2013 – Test Boil, Part 1

Last weekend I finally had enough sap to boil, so I had to get my act together and finish setting up the WF Mason 2×3 Hobby Evaporator.  I had previously bricked up the evaporator and calibrated my syrup pan thermometer, so now all that’s left was to install the smoke stack, set the pans in […]

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