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After looking online for ideas it seemed like the easiest plan would be to convert an old55-gallon drum to a wood-burning evaporator. With a used olive-oil drum bought on Craigslist, a couple of cheap steam table pans, a barrel stove kit, some black iron pipe for a frame, an oxy-acetylene cutting torch, grinder, and some tools, I slapped one.
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Check out the step-by-step instructions for this DIY maple syrup evaporator below! Overview. supplies + cost. 55-gallon steel drum ($10) · wood stove kit ($46) · 2 stovepipe pieces ($7/each, $14 total) · 2 full-size steam pans ($20/each, $40 total) · firewood · cast iron wood stove grate (optional, $5) total cost: $115.
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The DIY Evaporator Design. Cheap Cinder Block Maple Syrup Evaporator - Less than $50. Watch on. The front blocks create the firebox and hold the stainless steel pans by their lips. The chimney is set on two vertical blocks, with a gap between them and two blocks behind that gap at the rear. The gap in the front, then, allows the smoke to.
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Our homemade maple syrup evaporator is inexpensive and breaks down easily. Maple Syrup Evaporator Year 1: When we began to make maple syrup the first year, we felt like we had spent money on the taps and on the cinderblocks and stove pipe for the "oven", so we didn't want to spend more money on the steam table pans.
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http://www.tomakemaplesyrup.com | Here is my take on a homemade maple sap evaporator (also called an "arch"). It is a 55-gallon steel drum turned into a wood.
How To Make a Homemade Maple Syrup Evaporator Part 1 Maple syrup
The hotter your fire, the quicker you'll transform the water in the sap into steam. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup (approx) which will take about 5-7 hours to boil it all down. I like to do 20 gallons of sap at one time so it's not so overwhelming and makes it a little more manageable.
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A look at the maple syrup evaporator I built out of an old oil tank. Perfect for a small scale operation and an easy DIY project.
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Step 4: Attach the Stack Flange to the DIY Maple Syrup Evaporator. To do so, line up the stack flange with the hole cut out of the back of the evaporator. Then, center the flange on the hole. We recommend pre-drilling these holes. We've assembled tons of evaporators, and pre-drilling the holes makes a big difference!
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Couple things to remember using a DIY Maple Syrup Evaporator: Maple sap becomes maple syrup when it reaches 7.5 F degrees above the local water boiling point. Water boils at 212F at sea level, so boil some water on your stove and use your digital thermometer to see what temperature it is boiling at. The temp will probably be lower than 212.
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Sapling Everything Grill with Evaporator Pan. $1,904.00 when you choose pickup at checkout! Evaporation Rate and Taps. Depending on the condition and style of use, the Sapling Evaporator can evaporate anywhere from 4-8 gallons of sap per hour. (An evaporation rate is the amount of water that boils off of your sap each hour.)
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This is a homemade maple syrup evaporator made out of a metal filing cabinet. It is brilliant and works really well for how simple it is. Using free or almost free stuff, you can make a DIY evaporator. Most of the items I had around the garage or shop. Couple of things first: • Use this information at your own risk.
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Continue the boiling until one pan of sap/syrup remains. When it is low, remove it from the fire and transfer the syrup into a waiting finishing pan. Finish off the syrup on a well-regulated heat.
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Watch the 2 videos below and step through the photos of the evpaorator build. How to use the Homemade Maple Syrup Evaporator. This is made out of a metal 4 drawer file cabinet and a few steam table pans, plus some stuff you may already have or can get cheaply or for free. If you can find a 5 drawer file cabinet, even better, it will allow you.
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This is the first video in a two part series where I show how to build a large, homemade, wood fired maple syrup evaporator out of an old 275 gallon oil tan.
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Firebrick mortar (can) 1 @ $15.00 $15.00. Pans 6 @ $ 5.00 $30.00. Total $218.80. When syrup season comes, place all of the pans in the racks and fill them with sap. Resist the urge to build a fire before filling the pans. It just takes a matter of seconds to warp or scorch a pan.
The Saporator, DIY evaporator/boiler for quickly reducing maple sap
The idea behind this DIY maple syrup evaporator is the cold sugar maple sap is brought up to a boil in the first large pot, and then it is ladled into the shallow finishing pan to be boiled down into maple syrup. Sugar Maple Sap becomes maple syrup when the sap reaches 7.5 degrees F above the local boiling point.