{"id":384,"date":"2014-03-31T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2014-03-31T01:23:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:23:18","slug":"trouble-with-nitre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Trouble With Nitre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down to 16 overnight. \u00a0We expected 25 overnight. \u00a0Warmed to 42 with the sun. \u00a0But not a big run today. \u00a0Collected 150 gallons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooked all day starting at 7:15 AM and finished by 7:15 PM. \u00a0Five batches into the milk can. \u00a0But something changed with the sap. \u00a0After the third batch the pan starting getting a nitre build up. \u00a0This causes trouble with boiling because the nitre coats the pan and amplifies the heat causing the sap to boil over, even with a small fire under the pan. \u00a0 You can not boil hard. \u00a0 \u00a0We clean the pan at the start of the day to prevent the nitre build up. \u00a0This has always worked. \u00a0We could boil 12-15 hours. \u00a0 \u00a0But after six hours today we got a nitre build up. \u00a0We stopped to clean the pan but that did not solve the nitre problem as it came right back. \u00a0 \u00a0It has to be something different in the sap, but what? \u00a0This could add a lot of time to boiling because we can not fire and boil hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still over 300 gallons to cook tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down to 16 overnight. \u00a0We expected 25 overnight. \u00a0Warmed to 42 with the sun. \u00a0But not a big run today. \u00a0Collected 150 gallons. \u00a0 Cooked all day starting at 7:15 AM and finished by 7:15 PM. \u00a0Five batches into the milk can. \u00a0But something changed with the sap. \u00a0After the third batch the pan starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-season-97"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}