Hello everyone, thank you for watching the video, please let us know wha you think. We would love to know how you make your syrup and what you do different from us. Also, don't forget to tell us what you do with you ice.
That is really good to hear. Stay tuned, we will be making a maple sugar video in the next few days. Do you have maple trees in your area where you are from?
We have a monstrous Sugar Maple outside our house in Tennessee (I'm guessing that it is about 150 years old, with a diameter in excess of 5 feet). The problem with collecting sap from a tree is that you need weather that fluctuates between below freezing and above freezing. We're pretty solidly on the "above freezing" side of the equation here in Tennessee. And that's how we like it. :) So you have to have the trees (maple. birch, etc.) for the sap, as well as the cold/warm cycles. For those of you wondering about the necessity of having an inch or so of sap in the evaporator tank before putting it on the evaporator, trust him. If you let the base of the evaporator heat up without sap to cool it you will end up with syrup that tastes burnt. It will wreck the entire batch. We learned this lesson when melting snow during winter camping (I didn't always live in Tennessee). The burnt water was undrinkable. Not sure what he means by including (or not) the ice. Unless part of the sap freezes solid (making the remaining liquid sap more concentrated). And the mention of the boiling point in relation to your altitude is spot on. The boiling point of water where I grew up was 198F or 92C. Higher up and you could have your soup merrily boiling away, yet not actually cooking it (rice is particularly hard to cook at around 10,000 feet / 3000 meters. It took my parents quite a while to adjust their recipes for the higher altitude (including switching to high altitude flour).
Hello, thank you for the comment. Yes you definitely need the freezing temps at night and warm preferably sunny during the day for that sap to flow. As for the ice, some people throw it away if a collection bucket is particularly frozen as the ice typicality contains less sugar content. However our buckets sometimes freeze solid so we boil the whole thing. We hope you enjoyed the video!
Thank you, it’s a nice simple unit without any gadgets or things that can break. I think the smaller wood better seasoned would really help. Happy boiling!
