Well, after boiling for 6 hours on the evaporator, I reduced approximately 32-35 gallons of crystal clear sap with a sugar content of about 1.5% to approximately 5 gallons of sweet sap concentrate. I have no idea what the concentrate has for a sugar content, but I am going to guess its upwards of 10%. […]
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 […]
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 […]
