Sap Collection
Transfers the sap out of the tree.
What is a spout?
Sap is primarily this sugar.
What is sucrose?
The leftover minerals that must be cleaned from the evaporator and filtered from the syrup.
What is sugar sand?
Common syrup color.
What is amber?
Product made when syrup is heated to 32-34F above boiling point, cooled to 200F, stirred, and poured into rubber molds.
What is soft maple candy?
The two tree species used for maple production.
What are Black and Sugar Maple?
What is a vacuum?
The channels that increase surface area for boiling.
What are the baffles?
Measurement of sugar content.
Product made by heating syrup to 45-50F above boiling point and stirring.
What is granulated maple sugar?
The minimum diameter a tree should be when they are tapped.
What is 10 inches?
Why sap should be processed quickly.
What is bacteria can change and spoil it?
How evaporators are rated.
What is gallons of water they can evaporate per hour?
Quality standards for maple syrup.
What are the grades?
Number of pounds of sugar candy that can on average be made from one gallon of maple syrup.
What is eight pounds?
The upper section of the tree that should be large and healthy looking.
What is the crown?
Two most common collection methods.
What are plastic saplines and buckets?
What are the sap pan and syrup pan?
What you boil maple syrup to using temperature or sugar content.
What is 7 degrees fahrenheit above the boiling point of water or 66 degrees brix.
Product made by heating maple syrup to 25F above boiling, cooling to 50F, and then stirred.
What is maple cream or maple spread?
These are the two tools used to measure tree diameter.
What is a biltmore stick and a diameter tape?
The two common tools used to measure sugar content of the sap.
What are hydrometer and refractometer?
Two ways you can increase the efficiency of an evaporator.
What is reverse osmosis and a preheater?
Two qualities evaluated to determine the syrup grade.
What is color and light transmittance?
What is fondant?