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 […]
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 […]
As part of my new syrup pan set-up I had a port for a syrup thermometer installed at the draw off on the pan. Nothing fancy as most syrup pans have this, but little did I know that I had to calibrate the thermometer. The thermometer is specifically made for sugaring, and was purchased at […]
