Maple tree Finish

Is it really worth it ... Yes 

           I  now know why maple syrup cost so much in the store for the good stuff. First I will lay out our mistakes then I will lay out our success and if someone learns from them it will save you the pain of waiting for 2 days and 48hrs to have a half-gallon of maple syrup.

        It was a pretty Saturday morning ... but with anything, we could not start right away because we had things we had to do together and it had been put off for the week due to life. Did our "town" errands and got back home around lunchtime. Started the propane turkey fryer and started the low in slow boil-off of 11 gallons of sap. We put in 3 gallons at a time which took about 4 hours per 3 gallons to burn off enough moisture to add more. By midnight we called our fire sitting and pulled in the container for the night. Sunday we woke up went to church and then back home to get back at the low and slow burn off at this point both of us thought let's crank it up by 11:30pm we were almost there so we called it a night filtered it and moved it to smaller pots on the stove it halfway filled up my 5qt stockpot. Wake up Monday morning and on again with the boil around 1pm it started to thicken and reach 107*c and 212*F which is where it makes a syrup.  We got our jars together and put some together for the people who lent us the turkey fryer and some for us. In all for all that work ... we got 32oz of syrup.  Next time we will start off hotter so we do not have to cook it so long, we will tap earlier in the season, and we will tap all of our trees to get the most sap this year we only tapped 4 trees.

                                                On the stove

                                                our part 

                                                Part we share

                                                Boil it down

                                                more boil

                                                    Set up to boil down