{"id":2348,"date":"2026-03-29T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:23:08","slug":"empty-the-evaporator-boil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"Empty The Evaporator Boil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last boil to empty the evaporator always takes longer than hoped. Empty the sap into pails. Get a tank of water. Remove pans to rinse the loose stuff. Replace pans. Removing\/replacing the pans takes a lot of work because the flue pan is close to 75 lbs. Add sap to the front pan, fill the flue pan with water. Takes 2 \u00bd hours before ready to boil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took 4 hours to cook the final 15 gallons. Pan cleaner cooks in the flue pan. The last batch went into the milk can at 3:45 PM. Approximately 2 gallons. Looks like nice syrup: not too dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid-30s overnight. 50 during the day with clouds and sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the woods by 9:00 AM. Back to the farmhouse by 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last boil to empty the evaporator always takes longer than hoped. Empty the sap into pails. Get a tank of water. Remove pans to rinse the loose stuff. Replace pans. Removing\/replacing the pans takes a lot of work because the flue pan is close to 75 lbs. Add sap to the front pan, fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-season-109"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}