THE FREEZE DRYER. Freeze Drying Maple Tree Sap. Making Maple Sugar. 

Such an interesting process, Melissa. When the price of everything gets too high, we're all coming to live with you and Joe! We will all share in the chores, but will need some cows and pigs.

I was subscribed to your channel and RU-vid unsubscribed me. Thanks to Joe, I discovered it. I plan on going back and watching the ones I missed. Thank you for sharing.

You have had quite a learning curve. From Cajun country to North woods maple 🍁 good job 👏 👍

why does this make me so happy?! Hehehe...

Wow! Melissa, that was an amazing video. Never thought you could powder maple syrup to use for later. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.

Hey Melissa, just in case Joe doesn’t know….Star Trek ‘Strange new Worlds’ is streaming now on Paramount. Hope all is well with you and Chunky.

Yum, looks so good. After you could turn it into Hard Rock Candy. Just hide it from Joe. Lol lol.

I love the way you think out of the box. That was really interesting. Thanks for sharing that.

Melissa that was AWESOME GET A PATIENT ON IT AT ONCE. YOU CAN SELL IT TO THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE TOPPINGS FOR ICE CREAM, DONUTS, AND OTHER OUTLETS THAT MAKE TOPPINGS FOR FOOD. I BET THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD ON CHICKEN AND SOME OF THE VEGETABLES LIKE CARROTS. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Very interesting..

His stand was a tomato cage and he clipped the filter to it to keep it from falling while he poured sap through it.

Great idea Melissa 👍👍😊

Melissa I don't know how you do it,by getting so much done with working and all the cooking you do.

This interesting. I would like to look on line to order maple sugar. Thank you Melissa.

Well, whoda thunk?! Now Joe should of known to not leave sap sitting in a bucket when you have a new freeze dryer to use. Lol very interesting Melissa! TC Vicki from Iowa.

Very interesting!

What a cool process

Melissa that’s amazing, and what a great idea. Thanks so much for sharing! 👏👏👏👍👍👍✅✅✅🤩🤩💯💯💯

Thanks for sharing! I've been following Joe for long time and the both of You work so hard!! I feel blessed seeing Two good People that have found each other!!!! PS i hear figs in freeze dryer are the best...and weather for your area YT Ryan Hall Y'all ,he does great job on calling weather...

Wow very cool!

Wow so amazing never would have thought that would happen is the sap sticky it looks just like water thank you for sharing i enjoyed seeing that

interesting, never new you could do that

Hi Melissa,an awesome video! So interesting for sure.Thank you for sharing & I want to purchase a freeze dryer.Such a great appliance! Have a wonderful week!🌷

Love this

So cool! Thanks for sharing.. so it takes all the water out

Clever ! Hope it taste good later 😋🏆🏆🏆❤️

Melissa this is such a great video!

Very cool idea!

Awesome! 💖💖💖💖💖💖

That was really really really cool

That video was awesome. Good idea.

Awesome! 👍😎🇨🇦🍁

Maple sugar would be good to use when curing bacon or when you make a maple breakfast sausage. You guys will need to raise pigs again.

Interesting, but what do you do with maple sugar? Edit: never mind, I found your answer to another poster below. " You can use the Maple Sugar in any way you use regular cane sugar, it actually has a cotton candy sort of flavor."

Thanks for sharing with us Melissa, could you give us more about the uses and compare the sweetness and different quantity needed to sweeten things? Thanks for any help on these questions. Fred.

Love your video… going to try it! Thank you again for sharing… new subscriber here 😃🥰

If the sugar wasn't as sweet as you thought it should be, it may have sat too long before you processed it.

This is a great video. Thanks.

What an interesting process, thanks for sharing.

That is interesting? Let us know what you do with it next

That was so cool...what a great resource to have.

This is amazing! Now you can cook it as you want to!

What a amazing idea. It look awesome thanks for showing us this.

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What can you make with maple sap after its freezer dried very nice video Melissa

Neato

such a great idea! More and more I want to get one of those! could you share where you guys bought your freeze dryer?

So cool ❤️

Neat idea.

That's a cool idea. Never heard of freeze drying sap. This next winter, I want to try to freeze dry something outside naturally. At my new property, it routinely gets to -30s and highs of -10s for days/weeks at a time. Do you think this will work? I'm thinking I'll have to run a fan to blow the cold air over the food items. Btw, this AK Bill from Facebook.

Could of just invented a new sugar ..... Interesting to know how it is versus sugar

That's an interesting process. I wonder if you mixed so.e of the sugar into pancake batter if it would give the pancakes a maple flavor ?

Very interesting.👍🏼

I find this to be fascinating.

So cool. Never would have thought to do that.

HEY MELISSA WHAT ABOUT USING FREEZE DRYED MAPLE TREE SAP AND MIX IT WITH MELTED BUTTER TO PUT ON FRESH FISH AND SEA FOOD LIKE LOBSTER AND NORTHERN PIKE?

I see all the time people freeze drying candy and selling it!

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Love this! A great way to preserve a wonderful resource. How will you use it? In frostings? Maybe in cake mixes and pancake batters either full strength or half regular sugar? Maple iced donuts! Is Beauty the calico or the black?

Hello Melissa, thank you for a very interesting video. We don't have our dry freeze set up yet but will certainly try the sap. Out of curiosity, does your SAP sugar taste like maple sugar or more like white sugar or cotton candy as you said in your video? Thank you

Interesting?

Hello Melissa!! I have a question for you. I think I remember seeing in the summer you have hummingbird feeder’s. Well my wife has some but doesn’t have good luck. What do you use for nectar. Hope you can help her out. You never said what to do when you want to use it. How do you bring it back to syrup?? Thanks a lot have a great week!!

I know just about nothing about getting sap from trees and making my own Maple Syrup. For example, are there special types of Maple Trees that you get the sap from? Can you tell me more about this practice please? Thanks much and God Bless

i bet it will be good in coffee

I never knew. I know they usually cook maple syrup down to condense it but that’s taking it right to the sugar how do you make that into syrup?

Does the freeze dryer use a lot of electricity? When you go to use this do you have to add water then cook it down?

What’s the flavor? I’m so curious as there’s none of the caramelization as with syrup.

Will you use it as sugar replacement?

How does it rehydrate?

you sould better make a concentrated syrup first and then make the freeze dry process.

Would you sell that product?

Add a little bit of blue food coloring to it next time. Then it would look like the meth on Breaking Bad. Lol

Very interesting, so is the freeze dryer on a 220 outlet or just regular? And also does it increase your electric bills due to time it takes to dry food? Just curious -I find this to be amAzing way to preserve food long term and space wise.

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