After much boiling, minutes from being finished syrup.
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After much boiling, minutes from being finished syrup. About 7.5L, despite yesterday's sap disaster. #canada #maplesyrup #ottawa.
More sap to collect in the coming days & weeks!
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After much boiling, minutes from being finished syrup. About 7.5L, despite yesterday's sap disaster. #canada #maplesyrup #ottawa.
More sap to collect in the coming days & weeks!
this phone records sound in slow-mo mode, and then pitch shifts it back to normal pitch...makes for interesting burbling sounds. Next time I will try saying "syrup!" and see how that comes out.
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this phone records sound in slow-mo mode, and then pitch shifts it back to normal pitch...makes for interesting burbling sounds. Next time I will try saying "syrup!" and see how that comes out.
the video from yesterday, at the start of the boil, was in a 50L pot. This video is in a 16L pot. 2 50L pots boiled and refilled a few times, to reduce 300L of sap at 2.5% sugar to 7.5L of syrup at 65% sugar. I think it used about "40 lbs" of propane. Or the liquid propane volume equivalent of 40lbs of water, propane tank sizes being a bit odd...
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the video from yesterday, at the start of the boil, was in a 50L pot. This video is in a 16L pot. 2 50L pots boiled and refilled a few times, to reduce 300L of sap at 2.5% sugar to 7.5L of syrup at 65% sugar. I think it used about "40 lbs" of propane. Or the liquid propane volume equivalent of 40lbs of water, propane tank sizes being a bit odd...
@johnefrancis I wonder if there are more energy efficient ways of reducing...
Does sugar concentration increase from evaporation
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@johnefrancis I wonder if there are more energy efficient ways of reducing...
Does sugar concentration increase from evaporation
@evdelen there are. Large operations use reverse osmosis first, then boil under vacuum in efficient boilers. I'd need to have hundreds of taps, collecting sap with suction tubing, storage tanks etc, to make the smallest commercial boilers worthwhile.
