Maple Mob Essential Information & Glossary
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I love to wash dirty surfaces and dishes. That's more fun than tapping,
splitting and hauling wood, or stoking the evaporator. Please, Wayne, let
me clean something.
*Back to our regular programming/do not resist the inexplicable urge to clean.
The Great Maple Syrup Heist of 2012
$18M worth of maple syrup stolen in Canada. See
“The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist / January 2, 2013 Article”
“The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist / March 7, 2013 Article”
Why Handles On Small Syrup Jars?
See “Syrup Jar Handles”
Glossary
Fast Boil / Slow Boil
If we put wood in the evaporator about every ten minutes, we evaporate about 10 gallons of water per hour. We call that a fast boil. If we put wood in the evaporator at our convenience (usually that's me doing other things while also being Sapmeister), we evaporate less. I suppose maybe anywhere from 7 gallons per hour to as little as 3 gallons per hour. We call that a slow boil. Over night while Sapmeisters sleep, 15 to 20 gallons of water will evaporate from the residual heat.
Sapmeister
The Sapmeister is responsible most importantly for not burning down The Sugar House. He/She also keeps the fire roaring by putting more wood in the evaporator about every ten minutes for a fast boil, regulating the flow of sap into the evaporator, bringing firewood inside, and if necessary splitting firewood before bringing it in.
Basic Tapping Instructions
New tap holes should be 3” left or right of an old hole, 6” up or down. If possible continue a spiral pattern of holes over the years. Depth of hole should be 2 - 2 1/2” into the sap wood. Hole should slope downward out of the tree at a 10 deg. angle. This a very slight downward slope. Do not overdo it!
Subliminal Message
For those of you new to the list, do not read this! Those not new to the list will recognize it as something they don't recognize.
*Subliminal message/you don't know you are reading this
I love to wash dirty surfaces and dishes. That's more fun than tapping,
splitting and hauling wood, or stoking the evaporator. Please, Wayne, let
me clean something.
*Back to our regular programming/do not resist the inexplicable urge to clean.
The Great Maple Syrup Heist of 2012
$18M worth of maple syrup stolen in Canada. See
“The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist / January 2, 2013 Article”
“The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist / March 7, 2013 Article”
Why Handles On Small Syrup Jars?
See “Syrup Jar Handles”
Glossary
Fast Boil / Slow Boil
If we put wood in the evaporator about every ten minutes, we evaporate about 10 gallons of water per hour. We call that a fast boil. If we put wood in the evaporator at our convenience (usually that's me doing other things while also being Sapmeister), we evaporate less. I suppose maybe anywhere from 7 gallons per hour to as little as 3 gallons per hour. We call that a slow boil. Over night while Sapmeisters sleep, 15 to 20 gallons of water will evaporate from the residual heat.
Sapmeister
The Sapmeister is responsible most importantly for not burning down The Sugar House. He/She also keeps the fire roaring by putting more wood in the evaporator about every ten minutes for a fast boil, regulating the flow of sap into the evaporator, bringing firewood inside, and if necessary splitting firewood before bringing it in.
Basic Tapping Instructions
New tap holes should be 3” left or right of an old hole, 6” up or down. If possible continue a spiral pattern of holes over the years. Depth of hole should be 2 - 2 1/2” into the sap wood. Hole should slope downward out of the tree at a 10 deg. angle. This a very slight downward slope. Do not overdo it!