{"id":249,"date":"2011-03-18T02:23:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-03-18T02:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:23:06","slug":"a-day-cooking-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"A Day Cooking Sap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was in the 50s and cloudy today.\u00a0\u00a0 It did not rain.\u00a0 Only a few sprinkles.\u00a0 The sun tried to come out around 1:00 PM, but soon gave up.\u00a0 Around 6:00 PM the warm air hitting the cold snow caused the mist to raise from the snow.\u00a0 You are seeing the snow melt.\u00a0 Eerie and pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Into the woods by 8:30 AM.\u00a0 Cleaned the front syrup pan on the evaporator before starting boiling for the day.\u00a0\u00a0 Got a batch of syrup off the evaporator around 1:00 PM.\u00a0 Bottled that plus two batches from yesterday for 26 quarts, 1 pint.\u00a0 Had trouble with LP gas burner today: it was not burning at full strength.\u00a0\u00a0 We know the tank we are using will empty soon, so we thought it was just running low.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Turned out the valve was not open all the way.\u00a0 Oops.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the day&#8217;s boiling went.<\/p>\n<p>A full tank is 23 inches and 225 gallons.<\/p>\n<p>10:00 AM\u00a0 22 \u00bc<br \/>11:00 AM\u00a0 20 \u00bd<br \/>12:00 PM\u00a0 19<br \/> 1:00 PM\u00a0 16 \u00be<br \/> 2:00 PM\u00a0 14 \u00bd<br \/> 3:00 PM\u00a0 12 \u00bd <br \/> 4:00 PM\u00a0 10 \u00bd<br \/> 5:20 PM\u00a0\u00a0 8 \u00bc<br \/> 6:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0 7 \u00bd<br \/> 7:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0 5 \u00bc<br \/> 8:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0 4<br \/> 9:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0 2 \u00bc<br \/> 9:30 PM\u00a0 empty<\/p>\n<p>We still have the small tank of 175 gallons to cook down tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 No new sap because of the warm weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was in the 50s and cloudy today.\u00a0\u00a0 It did not rain.\u00a0 Only a few sprinkles.\u00a0 The sun tried to come out around 1:00 PM, but soon gave up.\u00a0 Around 6:00 PM the warm air hitting the cold snow caused the mist to raise from the snow.\u00a0 You are seeing the snow melt.\u00a0 Eerie and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-season-94"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}