Brick Evaporator Boils Maple Syrup - High Efficiency and Super Fast
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- My buddy Alfred has built the world's coolest maple syrup evaporator based on an innovative design that is entirely his own. It's made of brick and uses a double combustion system to maximize efficiency and sap boiling speed. In this video, we gather some sap and then start cooking!
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What a wealth of information Alfred has. Please thank him for sharing.
My word does this bring back memories of my youth in Vermont helping to gather sap with a horse and sled. we used to put some of the finished syrup on the snow ie: ( sugar on Snow) You have a very nice setup and I'm happy to see you still using wood vs. propane.
Thank you! Wood is so much more cost effective than propane, too.
We moved 2 hours away for the city 5 years ago and tried to make maple syrup for the first time this year. We only taped 2 trees ( as a test) . We used propane to boil it down. Big mistake. It's great syrup. But we needed to find a cheaper way to do it if we are going to do it on a bigger scale. This video gets a thumbs up. Thank you and cheers.
We could use a new video 2021 with the maple man. This was a great episode. Thank you.
Your buddy Alfred is the coolest dude ever.
Leaning post
right!
You beautiful, beautiful creature. As soon as Alfred started talking about his evaporator, I thought “I need to find a drawing of his design. Thank you for including his contact info!
Good luck with your build!
Good luck with your build!
r/ihadastroke
@@namelessgames1608 how is that an r/ihadastroke?
Shout out from Guilford, good to see my people maintaining that Vermont reputation for thinking outside the box. Vermonters get it done! Hope you and yours stay safe and healthy. Respect.
But Bernie is a dipshit. Why you keep voting him in?
Alfred is giving me a very cool Rick Moranis/Bob McKenzie vibe. Coo loo coo coo, coo coo coo coo!
I live in Wisconsin. About 30 miles away, there is a company that has a reverse osmosis service that concentrates the sap. Saves lots of time and wood
Loved his "door" on the sugar tent. ;-)
My man Alfred knows his stuff
I love Alfred! I always look forward to seeing him in your videos. He is so amazing, brilliant, and just fun to learn from.
Intense thirst and a hangover feeling might be prediabetes. Have Alfred
check with his doc.
@Fgg Fgg but it’s the intense thirst my sister got diagnosed last year and the months before she was always so thirsty
Doctor's definitely don't have this question figured out yet. There's no question diabetics feel thirst/headache symptoms, but so do non-diabetics consuming sugar? One is fat, the other not? One has diabetes, the other doesn't? Why? Doctor's claim to know, but they don't. Claiming to know is perhaps the biggest problem? Demonstrates a lack of curiosity and worse, a reticence and resistance to finding out?
It's a hobby of mine too. I'm super small scale on a dual burner propane stove. I can make maple syrup for about 9-10 bucks a gallon. I usually make about 2 gallons to get me through the year. It's a lot cheaper to make your own then buy it in the store. And like you said, it's easier to put more on when you make your own. Cheers and happy boiling!
And happy boiling to you, too! How has the season been treating you so far?
It's so crazy to see the 'old' farm in the old videos!!!
Woah, Alfred is both cool and smart! He needs a CZcams channel too!
Love the music. There is something about boiling the sap that is peaceful, plus it taste so darn great.. Never like syrup till a few years ago when I started making my own.
I had to go back and search your videos to find Alfred & his evaporator, now I need to study his design
THANKS FOR THE INTRESTING VIDEO! I think all your turkey cooker needs is a wind screen! I put a 55 gallon open top drum around my 🍁 evaporator a.k.a. turkey cooker. I cut out the bottom then cut 4 half moons holes to make 4 legs and to allow for air flow. This makes it wind proof and very energy efficient. I was cooking 🍁 sap in a 25mph wind this year. I also tapped into my house 500 gallon propane tank (after the house regulator) to constantly supply the cooker. This works very well and is hassle free as long as all the connections are safe and outside. I use 15 taps to make about 2 or 3 gallons of 🍁 syrup a year. WHAT A GREAT SPRING PASS TIME! 🤠
Thanks for the suggestion!
@@GoldShawFarm Friend me and I'll share a video of my maple syrup setup. You'ld be the first, so there's a learning curve for me.
Thank you for the video. Great friend.please tell him thank you. My son and I enjoyed it very much.
After you posted your comment, I texted it to Alfred. He appreciates your kind words.
Love your videos! Vermont is such an awesome area, visited it in 2013 I think and loved it. All the best from Barcelona, Spain.
Thank God for people with an engineering brain! I could never come up with something like that..🤷🏻♀️🤣 but I do have a friend that has this mindset and he comes up with stuff like this.....his wife days it's exhausting living with him 😂😂
Alfred seems genius level. Very impressive.
I'd love to get a drawing of that burner if you ever did one. That's awesome
Great job man! I could tell you've done this with so much passion and that's why your syrup came out so tasty. I was on my way back from Montreal Formula one back in 2000. (event I had gone to see quite a few times) and I stopped in a small place in Vermont called Newport (route 105)...just off the road. I asked the local family to walk around their property and take a look...wow, it was quite amazing. They've produced maple syrup for generation. Their whole life is MAPLE.
Thank you for taking us on this cool experience!
Great video ~ it’s beautiful seeing how giving folks are. Love the concept of it raining inside the maple syrup evaporating tent. How cool! You have a good friend in this man!
Keep a bottle of bourbon handy for the syrup sampling!!! Awesome video Gold Shaw!
Ha. We might get quite sloppy!
It’s a fantastic hobby! Grew up with Karo syrup, could not afford maple syrup. If we were lucky, get the dark Karo. I had pure maple syrup when I was an adult, for the first time - a true revelation! In my sixties now, and always have pure maple syrup in the fridge - and I don’t skimp neither. Gods work boys - just like making good ale. I am not a bible thumper, but got to believe that gifting some syrup to a friend has to reduce your sentence in purgatory.
Alfred is really a good and truely a nice guy friend, and they are hard to find
Really interesting Alfred mentioned syrup hangover, I've been working hard to eliminate sugar but ate a candy bar this week and it's first time ever I noticed a hangover from sugar.
I get learn about so many unknown things through these videos, never tasted maple syrup or had an idea about how its made....interesting video..thank you Morgan!!
Never had Maple Syrup? Oh dear. I might have to change that when the sap starts flowing again this spring!
Maple syrup is not available in India commonly, we dont have Maple trees in most part of the country, not sure is there are any in the Himalayas. Hyderabad (the city i livie in) is an arid land. I'll try to buy some maple syrup online.
Maple syrup is a party in your mouth.. it is good for cooking too, like sweet/spicy 🤤
Mighty dark looking stuff you got there!
I had a setup that worked good. We had about 30 taps out, on pipeline. I picked up a barrel stove kit and made my arch out of that, with a stainless steel pan set inside it. Held about 20 gallons. Used an old furnace burner to start the fire, burned big knots that were hard to split. Took about an hour to bring a pan to boil, burning .75 gallons per hour of kerosene. Built an A frame shed over it, with a good sized vent in the top. Made a lot of syrup with it.
That's impressive!
Very cool, now I want you to show us the whole process and even how to tap trees. By the way your farm house porch is amazing 😊
Thank you! I’ll probably make a syrup how to video as soon as the sap starts running.
Ok ... Who else came here from the video in March 2022???
Well I did and all I can say is everytime Alfred came on the video or his name was said...🎶🎶🎶 My buddy Alfred 🎶🎶🎶 went running through my head!!! 🤣🤣🤣
If Alfred is selling any of his syrup I would LOVE to buy some!!
I don't think he has any to sell yet. Sap is just starting to run.
Alfred is amazing guy.
Nice modified rocket stove. Wish we had some trees we could tap out here!
It's an incredible design!
My friends in Rutland, Vt would boil sap and I love the smell. Some people down here in Fl didn’t even know what real syrup was. Nothing like it.
Best on waffles and pancakes...Concord grape jelly PLUS maple syrup! Num yum yum...
Hey, Alfred, that's a cool shack...!
This vid is giving me a hold my beer while I grab the welder moment. Awesome, thanks for sharing!
Thanks! I would love to see what you create!
Really good video👍🏻🇨🇦 way of life with maple trees
Alfred is the man...what a setup!! Such an interesting video and a fun hobby. We don't have many Maple trees on our property but we do have a ton of Black Walnut...I've thought about collecting sap from them to boil to syrup, but the sugar content is really low so we'd have to collect quite a bit. Fun video, thanks for sharing!!
Go for it! We’ve done some homescale boiling with a simple propane burner and a stock pot-not nearly as efficient, but it gets the job done.
Walnut has some weird alkaloids probably wouldn't be too good. You can trap birtch too but it's very watery.
Loved the video and evaporator!, gotta step it up and sell the syrup!.
For the love of the syrup!
That's impressive ingenuity and workmanship!
Alfred is a true artist!
Morgan, if you make a trip his way again, I would love to see the shack around this evaporator!
Sure. Send me a message through my website and I can probably send you a pic. It's just a simple wood frame with greenhouse plastic. Alfred has ambitions to make a really sugar shack, but I don't that's happening for the upcoming season.
That pan is really freaking cool!
A farm in Durham has a awesome setup with lines that go directly to the house takes collecting out of the equation
Alfred is a ridiculously smart dude he's awesome loved this video ...even though I'm definitely not going to be making maple syrup at my house I GA i love these videos
I thought I was the only one who got boiling hangovers! What a beautiful brick evaporator.
Alfred does some amazing work!
I read an Indian captive narrative where the boy who had been taken told about how the tribe he was with poured the syrup into shallow bark trays and let it sit out overnight. In the morning the top ice was thrown away since the sugar solids settled and the water component froze. This was done multiple nights until they had "syrup". It must have tasted completely different since there would have been no heat cooking and carmelization of the sugars. There were no metal cooking vessels prior to the white man coming but obviously maple sugar could be made without heat processing in metal pots.
We have the cabin but a bad evaporator u have a great evaporator but no cabin. Lol. We are actually going to try and build one this year. Our preheated is made of clean radiators that can capture distilled water that we use for a makeshift sink. I like ur setup
I get the hangovers as well longest boil we did this year was 14.5 hours just about 300 gals of sap. Needless to say the next day sucked. Lol
My buddy swear his system is crazy pure, so let’s head down there and start cooking!
Buddy: Say my name
Both times I've seen Alfred in your videos it's to do with burning stuff. Fire bender confirmed xD
what a beautiful evaporator, a skilled mason built that, i know being one, would love to see a video of the build
Please don't drink too much sugar Alfred, we need you for many years of videos. The hangover you're describer is probably a mix of GI distress and postprandial hyperglycemia.
We love maple syrup!
That dude has quite the personality... you need to make a show with him in it
Hi........Gold Shaw Farm, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
I like what I've dubbed an "embarrassment" of syrup on my stack. Cut a hole in the center of the stack and save that bite. Fill the cavity with syrup cover that bite and go. When you eat your way to fresh cake fill up the cavity again. Boom. Love it.
Whoa! That is innovation right there.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. We don't have maple trees in south africa
Awesome video. Love the choice of music too. Thanks for sharing
I decided to go check out some of your older videos.. Never too much syrup ain't that the truth!!!!
Alfred seems to be a very nice guy
He's a great friend!
I thought the ice in buckets was water. At least that's what I read online and when I myself tasted the ice it after taping my trees, it did just seem like water to me too. I didn't detect that slight sweetness.
Sounds to me like he's managed to design it so that there is something like the catalytic combustor in my Dutchwest Airtight woodstove (no it's not my sugaring stove lol) but it pulls the heat from the smoke so there is very little smoke visible at all from the top of my smokepipe, just heat haze
When testing with the hydrometer are you cooling the sample to get an accurate reading. Most hydrometers are only calibrated to around 20c. I use brewers hydrometers for my job daily which have a temperature correction thermometer and scale built in.
The syrup hydrometer that I have has two test lines, the hot test line is for 211°F, which I guess is the estimated temperature that the syrup would be once in the hydrometer cup, immediately upon drawing off. I believe that is a figure that the maple industry has decided on. There is a cold test line too, I forget what it is though.
QUICKER BOIL
Thanks for sharing your informative video about evaporating maple tree sap.
Some questions come to mind:
Q1: Does wood provide a "quicker" boil that natural gas, propane, butane or other fuel? Apparently, the metric for a "quicker" boil is gallons of sap per hour out of a given evaporator pan of specific Length x Width x Depth and Percent Capacity.
Q2: In what qualities does a "quicker" boil produce a "better" sap? What is the metric for a "better" sap quality? Viscosity? Smoothness? Consistency?
Q3: When tap water is boiled, the evaporating water carries away all of the minerals to produce pure H20. When fresh vegetables are boiled in water, the evaporating steam carries away minerals, vitamins and living enzymes that are leeched from the vegetables. When maple sap is boiled, does the maple-fragrant evaporating steam carry away the minerals, vitamins and living enzymes of the maple syrup?
Q4: Does wood-fired sap produce a different flavor of syrup? If so, what is the taste of wood-fired sap compared to other-fuel-fired sap? Would a blindfolded person be able to detect a difference in taste?
i pledge more Alfred :)
You can make your own sugar if you have too much syrup. Back in the 1800's they used to do that, because it was too expensive to import.
Not sure how long you've been in Vermont, but this seems like a standard boiling rig. I grew up boiling sap. Now I get all my syrup from a farmer down the road.
Wow. what a sweet video, pun.
Big problem here in Québec and probably in Vermont, with the pandemic. All the maple sugar shacks are closed to the public, right in the middle of the season. There will be maple syrup production however but no parties. His syrup is rather dark, certainly good but if the sap remains too long in the pails it oxydizes and makes for dark syrup, also aluminum pails are favored over galvanised. It's a complicated process to make maple syrup.
Awesome job, what a great hobby
Pretty sweet evaporator 👍🏻
It won't be as grand, but it will be productive.
This is a wonderful video. Very informative and I just thought you guys were great. Thanks Bravo
THANKS FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO WITH US THAT IS AN AMAZING SET UP FOR A FUN HOBBY. ALFRED'S WEBSITE ON THE BOTTOM WASN'T LINKED TO CLICK ON AND TRIED IT AND COULDN'T GET ANYWHERE
Thanks for the heads up! I think I fixed it.
Maple syrup-Yummm
Great video, looking for trees now!
Awesome! Hope you found some.
Would have been interesting to see the process you use to bottle the syrup. I make a (very) small amount in Minneapolis and when I get to the bottling stage it's a bit messy. I always add a small amount of hot syrup in at a time because I'm afraid of causing the bottle to break.
Bottle won't break at 218 degrees. Rock on
Id like to get in touch with alfred about that evaporator... im building an evaporator down in Pawlet VT because i cant afford something like my grandfather has with that 3x8 made by Grimm
I really like the idea of a brick arch
I feel like it looks more aesthetic than the generic stainless steel arches you get from Leader, Grimm, CDL, etc and i feel like i could build a brick one to my needs without spending an arm and a leg because i priced out just a basic 2x4 Leader Evaporator and the whole arch, pan, stack setup was around $8,000
Great video
I was so sad to see my buddy Alfred and not year the music jingle :)
I heard it in my head though
Huh I hadn’t seen this one!😮
Hey! Saw you on Freedom Live and added your channel. Take care!
The ONLY syrop I buy. Darker the better.
A big as rocket stove cool 😎
It must smell amazing in their!
Like heaven!
This is fantastic. I tap about 30 trees and am thinking of expanding my efforts. Are the plans for this evaporator available anywhere? I would love to sink my teeth in to a project like this.
I don't think there are plans online, but you can email Alfred through his website at www.oldgoatmasonry.com
@@GoldShawFarm Thank you very much.
Sslfamilydad made one and has a video I guess that's what got me this recommendation.
I don't know why but I naively imagined syrup poring from trees.
Great video!
Nice setup. Any chance of evaporator schematics or a video on the how it was made/designed?
We might make a video soon on this. Stay tuned!
Use our old wood stove, get a large SS pan , and build a shelter. Next year will be grand.
Could you capture that steam and bottle it as distilled maple water?
Would it have a maple flavor to it?
I saw them selling "tree water" in the supermarket the other day.
Nothing like maple syrup.
Are there other trees types that you could make "syrup" from?
Birch
The tree water you see in stores is just pasteurized maple sap. I don't think the distilled steam would do much for you. You can tap a wide variety of trees including black walnut, birch and sycamore.
I know it's not what this video is about, but I really just have to make a comment that this guy has really pretty eyes. I mean the color
Thank you for this video!
Very cool process-thank you! How is the tree physiology affected by the gathering of sap?
Normally the tree is ok because you dont put in more taps than the tree can support and you move the taps every season so it can heal
Great to make your own. But call a restaurant and get some buckets. Don't use old paint buckets.