Maple Syrup?

Seems light. We have 5 trees tapped. Some double tapped. 8 or 9 taps total. Getting 10 to twenty gallons of sap a day from them. We have had decent sap weather but think the best is still to come
These 60 degree days are not it.

Would guess anywhere from a couple gallons to 5 . Nights below freezing for best results.

Awesome! thanks for the information!

I wouldn’t try to make sense of a given group of trees output on an day. It seems to vary more than I can understand with frost/temps/wind/ location (top of hill vs bottom and other odd stuff). If you get a large group you will find some run and some don’t but they average each other out.

This should be in the recipe section, but seems fitting here.
Below is one of my favorite pancake recipes. Hoping for syrup and cakes this weekend!
It is from a small chain of local breakfast restaurants. It used to be on the kare11 website, but I still removed the company name.

Note, it takes an overnight and some exact measuring. They don’t bubble and cook fast.

Pancakes
Ingredients

1/8 cup baking powder (2 Table spoons)
1 tablespoon baking soda
2 ¼ cups flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
24 ounces buttermilk (3 cups which is .75 Quart)
3 tablespoons butter

Preparation1. In a large bowl, mix eggs and buttermilk. Mix very thoroughly.
2. Slowly add all dry ingredients to egg and buttermilk mixture. Stir constantly with wire whip.
3. Melt butter in microwave and allow to cool to room temperature.
4. Add butter to batter and mix well.
For best results, allow pancake batter to rest for 24 hours in refrigerator. Prior to cooking, stir batter well.

I am trying this for the first time and after boiling 10 gallons of sap down I forgot it on the stove for the last bit of the process. I came back in from the garage to a smoke-filled kitchen. Doh!

Attachments:

1. 

   IMG_1006.jpg
   

Wow. That pan is toast.

You should see more than 5 gallons on a good running day, from 12 taps. Two weeks ago, I had two of my 16 inch diameter sugar maples spit out about 2.5 gallons each over a 30 hour period, with 2 taps per tree. Not always that productive, but I would think you’d see some good volume when conditions are ideal.

Question: I have 30 plus trees on my property, how long to boil down (propane turkey fryer) 5 gallons of sap and what is the yield after boiling? Thanks

huskerdu wrote:

Question: I have 30 plus trees on my property, how long to boil down (propane turkey fryer) 5 gallons of sap and what is the yield after boiling? Thanks

Generally you can do 1-1.5 gph per square ft of heating surface.

30-40 gallons of sap to 1 gallon syrup, depending on sugar content of the sap your cooking.

I have a 2×4′ pan, and can get around 8 gph. It will take a good 10 hours or so for me to do 80 gallons. I revised my system this year so hopefully it might increase. I just tapped last week, so hopefully I can store the sap safely until this coming weekend. Sucks not having any snow.

Thanks!

john23 wrote:

I am trying this for the first time and after boiling 10 gallons of sap down I forgot it on the stove for the last bit of the process. I came back in from the garage to a smoke-filled kitchen. Doh!

Don’t feel bad, I did the same thing to one of my wife’s pots.