{"id":262,"date":"2011-03-31T02:09:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T02:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2011-03-31T02:09:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T02:09:45","slug":"thawed-the-evaporator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Thawed the Evaporator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was down to 12 last night again.\u00a0 It did warm quickly to 35 and later in the day reach 38.\u00a0 We had some melting of the snow. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooked through the 230 gallons of sap we collected yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Had to thaw the evaporator first.\u00a0 It was not quite solid ice.\u00a0 It took about an hour to slowly warm it and melt the ice.\u00a0 Quite unexpected for March 30th.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The heating tape on the tank&#8217;s pipes worked well.\u00a0 There was even a puddle of melt under the pipes.\u00a0\u00a0 Sap flowed to the evaporator as soon as we open the valve. <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully not as cold tonight.\u00a0 Tomorrow should reach the 40s.\u00a0\u00a0 We expect sap. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the day&#8217;s cooking.<\/p>\n<p>11:00\u00a0\u00a0 20 \u00bd\u201d<br \/>12:00\u00a0\u00a0 18 \u00be\u201d<br \/> 2:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15 \u00bd\u201d<br \/> 3:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 13 \u00be\u201d<br \/> 4:00\u00a0\u00a0 13 \u00bd\u201d<br \/> 5:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11 \u00bd\u201d<br \/> 6:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9\u201d<br \/> 7:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7\u201d<br \/> 8:00\u00a0\u00a0 4 \u00bd \u201c<br \/> 9:00\u00a0\u00a0 2 \u00bd\u201d<br \/> 9:20\u00a0\u00a0 empty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was down to 12 last night again.\u00a0 It did warm quickly to 35 and later in the day reach 38.\u00a0 We had some melting of the snow. \u00a0 Cooked through the 230 gallons of sap we collected yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Had to thaw the evaporator first.\u00a0 It was not quite solid ice.\u00a0 It took about an [&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-262","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\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}