[Syrupmakers] evaporator pan
Ken Reit
Reit8472 at SW.RR.COM
Wed Jan 16 12:36:39 PST 2008
Our stainless batch pan is on 2" stainless rollers. We use a wood fire and
just roll it off when the syrup is ready. It sits on 2 " pipe frame with a
lip welded on the inside to "guide " the rollers.
Ken Reitsma
From: syrupmakers-bounces at syrupmakers.net
[mailto:syrupmakers-bounces at syrupmakers.net] On Behalf Of Raymond Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:22 AM
To: syrupmakers at syrupmakers.net
Subject: Re: [Syrupmakers] evaporator pan
Let me defer to TC on your request. He is more experienced than me and
he does a super job of explaining things.
One serious concern I have relates to "tipping" the pan. Most
evaporators have a spout at the finishing end so that the syrupmaker can
"pull" the syrup off with the "pusher". I used a 1 1/2 inch pipe flange on
my all-steel pan. It is brazed to the side at the bottom of the last divide.
The ( very small ) gap between the pan and the flange are brazed "smooth".
Be sure that the inner diameter is all the way to the bottom of the pan so
the syrup can flow straight out. I use a 1 1/2 inch nipple for a spigot to
clear the side of the furnace. I use a "stopper" like the wooden "tamper"
used to put meat into a sausage grinder. It would be even easier on a
wooden-sided pan.
I AM VERY ALARMED AT THE THOUGHT OF TIPPING A PAN OF HOT SYRUP ! That is
a good way to get someone badly hurt or scalded to death ! I presume the
"batch guys" extinguish the fire when the syrup is finished. Otherwise I
don't see how you could scrape all the syrup out of a batch pan without it
scorching.
Thanks for cleaning-up this mess TC.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Harrison <mailto:rharrison922 at yahoo.com>
To: syrupmakers at syrupmakers.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Syrupmakers] evaporator pan
Mr. Weaver,
Could you explain the finishing process on an evaporator ? I have seen
it done(not lately) and I STILL don't have much of an understanding how it
is done. Thanks!
Richard Harrison
Raymond Weaver <victoryfirst at nxs.net> wrote:
Thanks TC for your explanation. May I add that most of us use an all-wooden
hand-made hoe-shaped tool to control the syrup as it finishes. I call it a
"pusher" for want of a better name. What do the rest of you call it ? It
would be hard for me to immagine cooking syrup in an evaporator without it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Harrison <mailto:rharrison922 at yahoo.com>
To: syrupmakers at syrupmakers.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Syrupmakers] evaporator pan
T C,
Thanks for explaining the difference in a batch pan and a continuous-flow
evaporator. Good point. I thought about posting that but figured someone
else would do it. Thanks.
Richard Harrison
G Wilson <glenarchie at webtv.net> wrote:
Jay
An evaporator is a high volume pan as compared to a batch pan. To operate an
evaporator pan you have to continuous flow the new juice in and that forces
the cooked juice out. In the starting end you might have 4 inches of fresh
juice and on the finishing end 1/2 inch. The rate of inflow determines the
rate of outflow or pushes the cooked sorghum out. Of course your fire is the
thing that require a lot of skill to determine how fast you cook your
sorghum. You want a spigot running juice in and a spigot running out syrup.
For every 10 gallons of juice you put in you should get approximately one
gallon of syrup.
T C Wilson
Eureka, Kansas
-----Original Message-----
From: jay shumpert
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:55 AM
To: Syrupmakers at syrupmakers.net
Subject: [Syrupmakers] evaporator pan
Hello To all,
I have a question about a rect. shaped evap. pan. If
after evaporating most of the water off of the juice,
don't you have to tilt the pan to make the remaining
juice run to 1 end. It seems that after cooking off
approx 90% of the amount that you started with that
there would not even be enough left to cover the bott.
of the pan, & it would scorch. This will be my first
year at making syrup. I really have found this forum
very helpful. I'm sure that I'll have a lot of
questions as I go along.
Thanks to all,
Jay
Jay
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