Into the woods at 6:45 AM. Washed the syrup pan. Then got the R\/O running. Had to get reacquainted with it since we didn\u2019t use it last season. It had a squeak we didn\u2019t recognize, but cleared after a few minutes. No leaks. Took the sap to 7 Brix. Took about 3 hours to process 285 gallons. That\u2019s 90 gallons per hour. We should get 100-115 gallons per hour. Not sure why it wasn\u2019t processing more per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The evaporator is very sweet now. It took about 45 minutes between batches. At the end of the day we processed a final batch in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This syrup looks lighter. We used a separate milk can so we can bottle some lighter syrup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day cooking.
7:45 R\/O starts
10:00 batch
10:50 batch
11:00 R\/O finishes
11:00 5.5\u201d of concentrate
11:45 batch
12:00 3.0\u201d of concentrate
12:20 batch
12:50 batch
1:00 done<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We calculated it would take 15 hours to cook old school. We finished in 6 hours using the R\/O. Glad we put into service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
34 overnight, although puddles had a slight layer of ice. Cloudy and 42 today. 2\u201d of snow forecast overnight. Plan to collect tomorrow. The trees were still slowly dripping with some buckets \u00bd full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back to the farmhouse by 1:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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