What if you could sit down for 45 minutes with three of the most knowledgeable maple experts in the country and talk about everything from sizing your operation to defoamers to oil vs. wood to evaporator enhancements and sugaring techniques?

That's what you get in this reboot of the evaporator portion of our spring open house.

Join Leader Maple Experts Kevin Lawyer, David Butler, and Joel Oelke for a wide-ranging discussion of all things evaporator. From the people who basically invented evaporators.


CONTENTS
0:40 Natural Draft Arches
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0:55 Inferno Wood Fired Arches
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1:00 Vortex Wood Fired Arches
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2:10 High Efficiency of Wood Fired Vortex Arch
3:45 Oil and Gas Fired Arches
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Reverse Fired Oil and Gas Arches
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4:40 Considerations for oil and gas evaporators
8:10 Benefits and challenges of switching from wood to oil/gas
10:10 Does oil/gas vs. wood affect syrup taste?
10:55 Wood firing technique
15:00 The importance of defoaming
15:32: Atomos Defoamer
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16:30 Tips and rules of thumb for defoaming
18:00 Proactive vs. Reactive Defoaming
20:20 Defoaming with a Steam-Away
21:15 Authorized and unauthorized organic defoamers
22:20 What about butter and pork fat as defamers?
24:40 What do Max Pans do for you?
28:00 What chimney temperature should you seek?
30:00 Importance of a stack thermometer
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32:20 Evaporator enhancements
32:40 What are the Steam Away and Preheater?
33:00 Parallel Flo Stainless Steel Sap Preheater
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Steam-Aways
Standard: https://leaderevaporator.com/standard...
Enhanced: https://leaderevaporator.com/enhanced...
36:15 What evaporators do we have to offer the hobbyist/crafter?
36:30 Half Pint Evaporator
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36:55 Half Pint with Extension
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37:20 2x3 Vermonter Evaporator
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37:30 How to decide the right size/type evaporator for you
39:30 Starting up and shutting down.
43:30 How to layout your sugar house.