Everything You Want to Know About Maple Syrup EVAPORATORS
What if you could sit down for 45 minutes with three of the most knowledgeable maple experts in the country and talk about everything from sizing your operation to defoamers to oil vs. wood to evaporator enhancements and sugaring techniques?
That's what you get in this reboot of the evaporator portion of our spring open house.
Join Leader Maple Experts Kevin Lawyer, David Butler, and Joel Oelke for a wide-ranging discussion of all things evaporator. From the people who basically invented evaporators.
CONTENTS
0:40 Natural Draft Arches
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0:55 Inferno Wood Fired Arches
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1:00 Vortex Wood Fired Arches
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2:10 High Efficiency of Wood Fired Vortex Arch
3:45 Oil and Gas Fired Arches
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Reverse Fired Oil and Gas Arches
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4:40 Considerations for oil and gas evaporators
8:10 Benefits and challenges of switching from wood to oil/gas
10:10 Does oil/gas vs. wood affect syrup taste?
10:55 Wood firing technique
15:00 The importance of defoaming
15:32: Atomos Defoamer
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16:30 Tips and rules of thumb for defoaming
18:00 Proactive vs. Reactive Defoaming
20:20 Defoaming with a Steam-Away
21:15 Authorized and unauthorized organic defoamers
22:20 What about butter and pork fat as defamers?
24:40 What do Max Pans do for you?
28:00 What chimney temperature should you seek?
30:00 Importance of a stack thermometer
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32:20 Evaporator enhancements
32:40 What are the Steam Away and Preheater?
33:00 Parallel Flo Stainless Steel Sap Preheater
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Steam-Aways
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Enhanced: leaderevaporator.com/enhanced...
36:15 What evaporators do we have to offer the hobbyist/crafter?
36:30 Half Pint Evaporator
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36:55 Half Pint with Extension
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37:20 2x3 Vermonter Evaporator
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37:30 How to decide the right size/type evaporator for you
39:30 Starting up and shutting down.
43:30 How to layout your sugar house.
Пікірлер: 10
I’ve had my base stack glowing orange many times on my forced air arch. Guess i got it hot enough!
Thanks for the video. Very surprised that this video has so few views and no feed back. I watch a lot of KZread videos and many on maple production. Lots of very good day to day information by experts in their field. Hobby maple producer with 450 trees taped 3/16 tubing average vacuum 20 to 24 inches of vacuum and a homemade evaporator. Will be adding reverse osmosis this year and hopefully soon a commercial evaporator.
@H2OLeader
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve a raised flue 3 by 10 (3/7 split) lightning design made by leader in 1994. Lead free soldered stainless steel pans. Natural draft wood fired. I have added hoods & a preheater over the flue pan. Did I hear David say that a max flue pan could raise my boil rate without going to an inferno or vortex arch?
I will be looking to replace my 3x12 Small brothers with a newer updated version Soon didn’t know what was available
Great video! Thank you!!
@H2OLeader
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
500 taps. Which evaporator would be best (wood)
@ryanbrowne4374
2 жыл бұрын
Buckets or vacuum? Will you ever expand, do you plan to run an RO and how much time do you want to spend cooking?
Oil is far more efficient than wood. Easier to store. Safer, you can shut it off. Cleaner no bark or bugs in the sugar house. Burns cleaner, the bottom of pans stay shiny and clean. Heat's more evenly for better gradient. Every time the arch is fed with wood the heat is nocked down with oil the heat is study, arguably better syrup. You don't need a whole separate barn to store fuel. On top of all that there's almost 0 work. Oil only way to go.