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This video was amazing! My 7 year old son wanted to know how to make maple syrup and we came to UA-cam to find a video. This explained the whole process from beginning to end. Thank you so much. Great video.
+PovRayMan To add to that, in my mind, I sometimes think to myself like I'm going to do it. I'll start thinking of trees in my area or how to get supplies, etc. And then a day or so later I think "yeah I have other stuff I gotta do." haha
This is great to watch! So interesting! I live in Australia so now I know why Canadian Maple syrup is expensive here, I love it and now have a new respect and appreciation for the people who harvest and process this 😊
Better to get gula aren (palm sugar) if you can find the real one and boil it in a little bit of water. It tastes almost exactly like maple syrup but it's from your part of the world.
Nothing better my man! I do this every year as well - I make about three gallons. I was told by a wise old sapper that if you remove the ice chunks from the sap you save a lot of boiling as the ice has almost no sugar in it and the sap left behind has a trace more without the ice. Sap on!
That is so cool. It's also cheaper than the maple syrup you buy at the grocery store. It's like $3 and if you want the good kind it's $40. And I'm a kid and it seams so fun to do. I'm gonna see if I can do this with my dad
making your own syrup isnt exactly cheap to boil 1 gallon of sap it takes me about 6 hours on my electric stove, which uses an immense amount of electricity thus raising your electric bill.
Hi, I am a Canadian living in Cape Town South Africa and I have 2 young daughters. My 7 yr old had to provide a Canadian food for her school today so we chose pancakes with real maple syrup (brought here from home). she had no idea about maple syrup so I had her watch your video. she was soooo amazed and told her whole class about how it is made. thanks for sharing such easy steps to making it!
Thank you for taking the time to make this. We homeschool and my 5 year old son wanted to know how maple syrup was made. This was very informative and now he wants to learn even more about the process so we can make our own syrup some day.
Thank you so much for showing me how it's done! I live in Florida, so there are no maple trees here. But I now have a whole new appreciation for maple syrup!
There are maple trees in Florida. Maybe just not as abundant. The red maple is native to Florida and can produce syrup. Any species of maple tree can produce syrup.
Thank you for posting this video; my 5 year old and 8 year old (and I) really enjoyed it. We are in sunny SoCal but love maple syrup, and had lots of questions after breakfast this morning!
That was really straight-forward and easy to follow. Thank You for making it. I assumed it was quite a bit more detailed. Unbelievable how much water needs to be steamed off. Good in coffee too!!
Very informative video. I showed my 5 year old daughter where maple syrup comes from and the process. I had no idea that it takes 10 gallons of sap to make one quart of syrup. Now I understand why good syrup is so expensive. Thanks for the vid--much appreciated.
In Malaysia there is also a type of plant which produces sugary syrup . we called this as gula nipah or nipah sugar. the process more or less the same by tapping the liquid out from the tree. cook the syrup until it starts to thickens into caramel thickness.
Thanks for sharing with us! The kids and I had a question that came up during breakfast. It is awesome to be able to come on here and have our questions answered!
+TheBarracudaDriver13 Or just someone from the Northern States (Minnesota, NEW YORK STATE, New England ect) Im from WNY ( around Buffalo) and I would do this! That snow is nothing!
Thanks for the great tip brother. I do have a couple of rocket stoves, they're excellent and would work great in this application -- of course I wish I thought of that...
Yes, you can get syrup from pretty much all maples. The syrup may be a bit cloudier and the season a bit shorter but you should still get some delicious syrup from it.
What an amazing video, thanks for educating us. I never knew the process was so darn simple. I can’t wait to experiment this next month in the woods while training soldiers.
I was really surprised at how easy this was to make. About how many trees do you have on your property that allow you to make a gallon for your use during the year? I do love the fact that it stays pretty nice and viscous even in the fridge. A lot better than Mrs. Butterworth's IMO.
thanks for making this, now i know how delicoious maple i made, u canadians are lucky !! i need to visit and try to make some myself looks like fun and nothing beats fresh and organic home made anything lol
So interesting. So you don't add sugar that's amazing , maple syrup is my all time fave thing in the world loved watching the process. Thanks from Sydney Australia
Correct. The sap already has its own sugar, which is needed for the trees to get its food. I live in New York state and we have allot of maple in our property so it's nothing new.
I'm from Ontario Canada and we are a pretty heavy syrup producers we have made this year around 15,000 litres of syrup. The syrup that you made is a bit cloudy because of naturally occurring sand that can be found in a filter press at the End of the day
Some thoughts on the process - if you put taps in the top of the bucket with no gasket, you get rainwater and melt in the bucket, put the hole in the side and you don't get that. Also, cooking it down over propane is wicked expensive, and there may be some more cost effective way to heat it (like on a woodstove or campfire). Also good to note, you can reduce the sap down inside without boiling if you are willing to leave it for long periods of time, for example leaving a big pot on the wood stove overnight or during the day while you are at work. Just leave the heat on low and it will simmer away without making the house gross with all the steam and sugar, then when you get close put it on the stove in a smaller pot to finish it.
Jason Robeson The better the seal/containment, the better the syrup. I'm not very fond of open spots/containers myself, so I built my own closed system (not that expensive either). First of all, buy some good tubing at the hardware store; that cheap thin stuff they give you in kits is just that...cheap (if the sun gets it warm, gives sap a rubbery taste). Use clear non-toxic acrylic tubing, it's naturally sanitized, and doesn't degrade. For a bucket, preferably galvenized, though any food safe container will work (most local bakeries/confectioneries will give you all the buckets you could ever want for free). for a bucket gasket/seal, Automotive rubber grommets work great. For boiling down. Propane is good for small quantities, but for several gallons, you're better off to to use wood. If you're serious about it, build a firepit just for it. Build it similar to a forge, firebrick sides with grate on top (traps heat and cooks quicker).
Do maple trees in southern regions produce syrup like the ones in Canada? I'm in Florida and just purchased some property with a few maple trees on it.
BarboursAutoHelp- not usually. the temp needs to be below freezing at night every night for at least a week for the sap to flow properly. maple syrup is only produced in areas with a cold climate.
If you use a Tee shirt to filter it remember if you've washed it, it will still have residual laundry detergent and whatever else you use in your laundry like softner or dryer sheet residue in the fabric. You might want to think about that.
wow, I just had breakfast (pancakes) with my nine year old, and wanted to know how our maple syrup was made. I love maple syrup, and after watching the labor and time invested to make it, I like it much more. Thank you!!!
Great demo of the process! What do you do with tap and the tree when the season is over? And, how do you know when to stop, does the sap just dry up or what? I really liked this video, you are a natural for this kind of stuff. Later
Will the syrup suffer at all if the sap isn't immediately boiled? There are plenty of maple trees I wouldn't mind tapping but I won't have a chance to boil the sap until a few months after. Would be the sap be fine if it was stored at room temperature and sealed up in some 2L bottles?
every year we'd make maple syrup on my grandfather's land.. such great memories.. he had about 80 acres & we'd tap various trees out in the woods.. & then process it in one of his large sheds.. he had a big wood burning furnace in the one shed.. you could literally park a John Deere A in there... with room to spare..
I've done this before. As a child. We boiled the whole thing indoors. The taps we had were steel and we never had kids for out buckets. We had bugs and leaves and misc crap we had to filter. 100 gallons of sap gets you like 10 gallon of syrup. His setup is light years ahead of ours, I'll say this... I might make maple syrup this way, but the way I did as a kid. ... NEVER AGAIN. It's an awesome amount if work. also note that 95% of "maple syrup" is not maple syrup at all its auger water with flavor.
so interesting to know how it's done thank you for showing.. I love Maple Syrup but unfortunately we don't have it in Turkey and imported ones are very expensive.
Maple syrup!!! Perfect in pancakes and waffles... I enjoy watching your video, very interesting, plus I always wanted to know how to make maple syrup.. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Look into building one of those rocket can stoves. They seem to work pretty good and are built from house hold materials. Thanks for making great videos, keep up the good work.
Wow so that's how you make maple syrup. I always wondered how the do it. It is a very simple educational video. It's nice that you warn us about the previous hole distance and all. Although I kind of wonder if there is a lot of hole or if after you are done with gathering, do you not close it? Isn't the sap still coming out? *confused* And what about if there is a lot of holes there, does it make the tree die faster or do we have something to repair it? We don't have maple tree here so I always go to the foreign store to be able to buy one. I love maple syrup even though I heard honey is much healthier. But I really like a toasted bread pan with butter and maple syrup drizzled on it! I also put some sugar to sweetened it a bit. But really in my opininon I think it is more delicious than honey. Maple syrup rocks!!
i dont think so..when tapping a tree, the sap that comes out is basicly 87% water and the rest is sucrose. so it would be very sweet. and i dont think its healthy. but if your willing to risk it. then its up to you.
It's not near 13% sucrose, considering how much you need to boil it down for the end product, it just tastes like very little sweet water, and it's fine to drink.
Sap from the tree is only about 2% sugar. There are producers who actually package and sell the sap as a beverage. My uncle uses it to make his coffee.
I'm doing this as I type. I have 14 gal of sap boiling on my kitchen stove because I have no way to do it outside. I did this last year at the start of the lockdown to teach my kid where it comes from. I even boiled it all the way down and poured it into hard candy molds! Fun but time consuming.
Do you mean "range" as in a stovetop? If so, you can as long as you have plenty of ventilation to the outside since all that water that gets evaporated will be on your walls and ceiling...pretty messy.
I could think of a lot of ways to Upgrade the little system you have setup, I think the biggest two for you would be to find a way to break the wind and also add your sap a ton slower. Awesome to see the little setup you have going on!
I"m going to have to try this. I have two sugar maples in my backyard that are massive. They are over 55 years old and about 4.5' in diameter. Should be good to tap.
Propane is way too expensive for what the final result is gonna be. Five gallons of sap is only gonna get you s pint of syrup and in that pot it'll take four hours to boil down. Use cinder blocks and wood. You can also use a Duraflame log for less than $3. that'll boil that for three hours.
Just eating some pancakes with the family and wanted to know where and how maple syrup is made. Thanks
+Angel Torrens OMG !!! me too same thing !!!!
Aunt jemina is not real maple syrup though
hahahaa
Angel Torrens me and misses was doing the same 🤣🤣
It better be the real stuff you are using not that fake shit.
This video was amazing! My 7 year old son wanted to know how to make maple syrup and we came to UA-cam to find a video. This explained the whole process from beginning to end. Thank you so much. Great video.
Ah, so your son is 14 years old now
@@jzmrecks7995 15 actually lol
This comment is a great memory for you
I'll never do this but I like watching this video every so often because I'd like to imagine doing it. Livin' vicariously through youtubes.
+PovRayMan To add to that, in my mind, I sometimes think to myself like I'm going to do it. I'll start thinking of trees in my area or how to get supplies, etc. And then a day or so later I think "yeah I have other stuff I gotta do." haha
PovRayMan same here man
PovRayMan same ! Watch honey harvesting too
holy fuck man, you're crazy... I know you said you'll never do this, but even THINKING about doing something this wild is insane!
WTF is wrong with all of you lmaooo!!!!
4:00
**causally spills 2 hours of extracting**
😭😭😭
*b u h r u h m o m e n t o*
@@mariamoreira-xq5mb huh?
This is great to watch! So interesting! I live in Australia so now I know why Canadian Maple syrup is expensive here, I love it and now have a new respect and appreciation for the people who harvest and process this 😊
Better to get gula aren (palm sugar) if you can find the real one and boil it in a little bit of water. It tastes almost exactly like maple syrup but it's from your part of the world.
Wow, that butter trick at 8:40 was amazing.
Nothing better my man! I do this every year as well - I make about three gallons. I was told by a wise old sapper that if you remove the ice chunks from the sap you save a lot of boiling as the ice has almost no sugar in it and the sap left behind has a trace more without the ice. Sap on!
Nice idea. I read this after 7 years 😂
@@wisdomyyworld1839 It's a timeless craft! Never too late to learn a new thing.
Yes taking the ice out of the buckets saves good time !
learning about maple syrup. I am 10 and that is the coolest thing ever!!!!!! Thank you so much for doing that!!!!😍
That is so cool. It's also cheaper than the maple syrup you buy at the grocery store. It's like $3 and if you want the good kind it's $40. And I'm a kid and it seams so fun to do. I'm gonna see if I can do this with my dad
Good for you AND your dad. Have fun together and the reward and experience of eating something you make yourself is many fold. :)
making your own syrup isnt exactly cheap to boil 1 gallon of sap it takes me about 6 hours on my electric stove, which uses an immense amount of electricity thus raising your electric bill.
6 hours to boil a gallon of sap? I think you need a new stove.
It takes about an hour to boil a gallon of sap.
LOL..its $50.00 a quart in my country.
Hi, I am a Canadian living in Cape Town South Africa and I have 2 young daughters. My 7 yr old had to provide a Canadian food for her school today so we chose pancakes with real maple syrup (brought here from home). she had no idea about maple syrup so I had her watch your video. she was soooo amazed and told her whole class about how it is made. thanks for sharing such easy steps to making it!
Thank you for taking the time to make this. We homeschool and my 5 year old son wanted to know how maple syrup was made. This was very informative and now he wants to learn even more about the process so we can make our own syrup some day.
Monica Whitehouse An author named Rink Mann wrote a great book on the subject which was how I learned to make syrup. Good luck!
Thank you so much for showing me how it's done! I live in Florida, so there are no maple trees here. But I now have a whole new appreciation for maple syrup!
There are maple trees in Florida. Maybe just not as abundant. The red maple is native to Florida and can produce syrup. Any species of maple tree can produce syrup.
I would so do this if I had property. This was a neat video. Dude seems like he'd be pretty chill to hang out with too.
Why don't you just tap someone else's tree?
Thank you for posting this video; my 5 year old and 8 year old (and I) really enjoyed it. We are in sunny SoCal but love maple syrup, and had lots of questions after breakfast this morning!
That was really straight-forward and easy to follow. Thank You for making it. I assumed it was quite a bit more detailed. Unbelievable how much water needs to be steamed off. Good in coffee too!!
Very informative video. I showed my 5 year old daughter where maple syrup comes from and the process. I had no idea that it takes 10 gallons of sap to make one quart of syrup. Now I understand why good syrup is so expensive. Thanks for the vid--much appreciated.
In Malaysia there is also a type of plant which produces sugary syrup . we called this as gula nipah or nipah sugar. the process more or less the same by tapping the liquid out from the tree. cook the syrup until it starts to thickens into caramel thickness.
Palm
As a Canadian, this makes me happy 🍁
Learning how to make syrup was maintaining social distance in the confines of my home, welcome to 2020
Thanks for sharing with us! The kids and I had a question that came up during breakfast. It is awesome to be able to come on here and have our questions answered!
I think this you're Canadian because you're out in the cold wearing a t-shirt lol
+TheBarracudaDriver13 Or just someone from the Northern States (Minnesota, NEW YORK STATE, New England ect) Im from WNY ( around Buffalo) and I would do this! That snow is nothing!
+TheBarracudaDriver13 Also 40 degrees (Fahrenheit) is noting! The high on Saturday is supposed to be 1, lol!
+TheBarracudaDriver13 It was mid-40s. Plenty warm enough for short sleeves if you're being even a little active.
+TheBarracudaDriver13 As we all know, Canada is literally the only place in the world where it gets cold
+jb76489 only the central prairie regions. Everywhere else is nothing to worry about.
Thanks for posting this video. I was eating waffles on maple syrup on it and wondered how maple syrups are made. Awesomeeee
I have no clue why I'm watching this right now.
Elmo gang
Lmao
Lord Beerus is here
Nice
I’m watching it because of curious George
first timer hear watching this video was keep very simple and to the point. thats great for me and new people to this. keep it up can't wait for more.
Thanks for the great tip brother. I do have a couple of rocket stoves, they're excellent and would work great in this application -- of course I wish I thought of that...
It's the best video I have ever seen... The camera, the voice, the video best 👍👍👍👍
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Yes, you can get syrup from pretty much all maples. The syrup may be a bit cloudier and the season a bit shorter but you should still get some delicious syrup from it.
What an amazing video, thanks for educating us. I never knew the process was so darn simple. I can’t wait to experiment this next month in the woods while training soldiers.
I'd tap that tree
I'd eat it.
i loled
My god
lmfao so would I
I was really surprised at how easy this was to make. About how many trees do you have on your property that allow you to make a gallon for your use during the year? I do love the fact that it stays pretty nice and viscous even in the fridge. A lot better than Mrs. Butterworth's IMO.
This is an amazing video. Thank you for sharing. I'll bet every drop of that syrup is precious and not wasted. My goodness it must taste wonderful!!!
thanks for making this, now i know how delicoious maple i made, u canadians are lucky !! i need to visit and try to make some myself looks like fun and nothing beats fresh and organic home made anything lol
Gordon ramsay food :hold my details
Great video! We loved our recent Maple Syrup trip 🍁
So interesting. So you don't add sugar that's amazing , maple syrup is my all time fave thing in the world loved watching the process. Thanks from Sydney Australia
Yeah!!! Natural sugar is the best type of sugar!
yeah screw the outta space sugar, this is the best one
Correct. The sap already has its own sugar, which is needed for the trees to get its food. I live in New York state and we have allot of maple in our property so it's nothing new.
Wow. So you you don't add sugar..... hahahahaha
Thay would only be Aunt Jamima, and I think that is all chemicals.
1. thank you, that was amazing.
2. you have the most beautiful hands ive ever seen.
Yeah. Tap that tree.
in that tight hole
combine them and put chocolate chips all in them
He couldn't tap a sapling.
I'm from Ontario Canada and we are a pretty heavy syrup producers we have made this year around 15,000 litres of syrup. The syrup that you made is a bit cloudy because of naturally occurring sand that can be found in a filter press at the End of the day
As a tree, i find this offensive
Lol
+Dicky Mchead
Oh my lawd.
+Insta Flaw U Jamaican
Mwai McPherson Yep..
but you are not a tree...
Just had pancakes with great maple syrup. Can't beat it, it would be amazing to be able to make your own though!!
Some thoughts on the process - if you put taps in the top of the bucket with no gasket, you get rainwater and melt in the bucket, put the hole in the side and you don't get that. Also, cooking it down over propane is wicked expensive, and there may be some more cost effective way to heat it (like on a woodstove or campfire). Also good to note, you can reduce the sap down inside without boiling if you are willing to leave it for long periods of time, for example leaving a big pot on the wood stove overnight or during the day while you are at work. Just leave the heat on low and it will simmer away without making the house gross with all the steam and sugar, then when you get close put it on the stove in a smaller pot to finish it.
Jason Robeson The better the seal/containment, the better the syrup. I'm not very fond of open spots/containers myself, so I built my own closed system (not that expensive either).
First of all, buy some good tubing at the hardware store; that cheap thin stuff they give you in kits is just that...cheap (if the sun gets it warm, gives sap a rubbery taste). Use clear non-toxic acrylic tubing, it's naturally sanitized, and doesn't degrade.
For a bucket, preferably galvenized, though any food safe container will work (most local bakeries/confectioneries will give you all the buckets you could ever want for free).
for a bucket gasket/seal, Automotive rubber grommets work great.
For boiling down. Propane is good for small quantities, but for several gallons, you're better off to to use wood. If you're serious about it, build a firepit just for it. Build it similar to a forge, firebrick sides with grate on top (traps heat and cooks quicker).
I can't believe I actually thought it came right out of the tree ready for pancakes. Very cool video.
"how we make syrup, eh?"
(canadians after someone asks them how they made mapple syrup)
A great way to do it is to get a giant wok and put it over a big fire pit. It takes about 5 hours and produces quite a lot.
Do maple trees in southern regions produce syrup like the ones in Canada? I'm in Florida and just purchased some property with a few maple trees on it.
One way to find out.
BarboursAutoHelp same here, in Orlando. I will see if it works
Alysrian Xian Hey, thanks!
Thanks a lot!
BarboursAutoHelp- not usually. the temp needs to be below freezing at night every night for at least a week for the sap to flow properly. maple syrup is only produced in areas with a cold climate.
I live in NH & have always wanted to make syrup & also I recently saw that you can drink the water from white Burch trees! 🍁
If you use a Tee shirt to filter it remember if you've washed it, it will still have residual laundry detergent and whatever else you use in your laundry like softner or dryer sheet residue in the fabric. You might want to think about that.
very well done video, gets to the point and tells us exactly what we need to know without any bs
Thanks for sharing! Great demonstration!
Great post...thank you so much.
wow, I just had breakfast (pancakes) with my nine year old, and wanted to know how our maple syrup was made. I love maple syrup, and after watching the labor and time invested to make it, I like it much more. Thank you!!!
Great demo of the process! What do you do with tap and the tree when the season is over? And, how do you know when to stop, does the sap just dry up or what? I really liked this video, you are a natural for this kind of stuff. Later
Amazing and so easy. If only there were maple trees here in Mexico. Does this also work with cactuses?
Will the syrup suffer at all if the sap isn't immediately boiled? There are plenty of maple trees I wouldn't mind tapping but I won't have a chance to boil the sap until a few months after. Would be the sap be fine if it was stored at room temperature and sealed up in some 2L bottles?
No
Nope sorry it will go bad. A safe way is to treat sap like milk.
Great video! I really enjoyed watching it and learning. Thank you for posting.
I remember seeing this on a caliou episode
that's what I was thinking about !!!
caulliou is actually canadian so thats why
@@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032 I didn't hear him saying "eh" a lot.
every year we'd make maple syrup on my grandfather's land.. such great memories.. he had about 80 acres & we'd tap various trees out in the woods.. & then process it in one of his large sheds.. he had a big wood burning furnace in the one shed.. you could literally park a John Deere A in there... with room to spare..
Quite a dapper tapper! 😄
Looks delicious. Now that it's February, I'm about to tap a bunch of trees in my yard in New England.
I've done this before. As a child. We boiled the whole thing indoors. The taps we had were steel and we never had kids for out buckets. We had bugs and leaves and misc crap we had to filter. 100 gallons of sap gets you like 10 gallon of syrup. His setup is light years ahead of ours, I'll say this... I might make maple syrup this way, but the way I did as a kid. ... NEVER AGAIN. It's an awesome amount if work. also note that 95% of "maple syrup" is not maple syrup at all its auger water with flavor.
your the only other person that knows this other than me. its 87% water and the rest is sucrose.
I don't think anyone is actually arguing with you about that.
Sap is 2% sugar. It takes 40-50 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup.
100 gallons of sap makes 2.5 gallons of syrup. Proper maple syrup is reduced 40 times
so interesting to know how it's done thank you for showing.. I love Maple Syrup but unfortunately we don't have it in Turkey and imported ones are very expensive.
Do you close the hole some how or just let it bleed?
the sap eventually seals the hole by itself
stick a stone or branch in it
Maple syrup!!! Perfect in pancakes and waffles... I enjoy watching your video, very interesting, plus I always wanted to know how to make maple syrup.. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
you didn't even show yourself putting it on a pancake lol
+wow45usr waffles for life. fuck pancakes
fuck waffles bitch!. pancake hatin ass
@Ano Nymous brad=waffle > steve from accounting=pancake
@@firstnamelastname-zo5gd you replied after two years wow
I like waffles and panckakes illd wather eat chocolate wafflews i can but m&ms in mankakes idk
Research on maple lead me here. Thnx for sharing :)
still convinced the tree needs this syrup. Suppose watering it will help what it lost?
Does the tree heal itself?
No, it dies
It does not. and yes, it does heal itself - the tap is just a very small hole.
Denis LeBlanc
No it slowly dies from depression.
The sap flows endlessly until the tree dehydrates in winter. Leaving a cold dry dead tree like those near graveyards.
The tap actually can hurt and kill it, your supposed to plug it after
Look into building one of those rocket can stoves. They seem to work pretty good and are built from house hold materials. Thanks for making great videos, keep up the good work.
Roman Atwood?
lol came here right after his vlog
+purple chicken same hahaha
+Drake Han LOL
Came here after the vlog😅😅
+purple chicken me too
Wow so that's how you make maple syrup. I always wondered how the do it. It is a very simple educational video. It's nice that you warn us about the previous hole distance and all. Although I kind of wonder if there is a lot of hole or if after you are done with gathering, do you not close it? Isn't the sap still coming out? *confused*
And what about if there is a lot of holes there, does it make the tree die faster or do we have something to repair it?
We don't have maple tree here so I always go to the foreign store to be able to buy one. I love maple syrup even though I heard honey is much healthier. But I really like a toasted bread pan with butter and maple syrup drizzled on it! I also put some sugar to sweetened it a bit. But really in my opininon I think it is more delicious than honey. Maple syrup rocks!!
Could you drink maple sap directly from the tree?
i dont think so..when tapping a tree, the sap that comes out is basicly 87% water and the rest is sucrose. so it would be very sweet. and i dont think its healthy. but if your willing to risk it. then its up to you.
It's not near 13% sucrose, considering how much you need to boil it down for the end product, it just tastes like very little sweet water, and it's fine to drink.
Sap from the tree is only about 2% sugar. There are producers who actually package and sell the sap as a beverage. My uncle uses it to make his coffee.
its safe to drink but for me i end up with a bunch of ants in it, plus its not very sanitary
I'm doing this as I type. I have 14 gal of sap boiling on my kitchen stove because I have no way to do it outside. I did this last year at the start of the lockdown to teach my kid where it comes from. I even boiled it all the way down and poured it into hard candy molds! Fun but time consuming.
Whats the sap straight from the tree taste like?
It tastes awsome
It tastes sweet
Sweet water basically
+overlord kujo and natury like, it tastes like heaven
It taste like water with a hint of sweetness
Very well done and informative for the new family doing this. Thank you
Τoo bad i don't have maples where i live...
:(
it's expensive at the store but after watching this video i realize how simple the process is
can you use a rage
Do you mean "range" as in a stovetop? If so, you can as long as you have plenty of ventilation to the outside since all that water that gets evaporated will be on your walls and ceiling...pretty messy.
+TacticalIntelligence do you have wife
+ally genestant no
ll
Excellent explanation! Thank you very much! So simple. We will try it this spring too!
I'd tap that tree.
lmfao
It is amazing to me that his voice is not shaking as he made this video in a Tshirt in the snow.
I'm surprised that 10 gallons only gets 1 quart
Thanks for this great video
That's why maple syrup is so spensive, it takes a lot of time.
I'm just wondering about the electricity bill lol
you should be worrying i do it and the bill is up there!
wait what?
The bill is expensive
oh ok. so cool though. wish i lived in the country ahah
Not to mention the tank of propane! If you aren't using a fire of crap wood, then it's stupid. Do it poor or go home poser!
Great video here. Covers a lot of info and is easily absorbed through this video. Nice work Sir!
Bro you look exactly like Mike Trout
Nicely done! Excellent explanation.
I just realized he is wearing a t-shirt
Monkey D. Luffy We do it in Norway too. You build a restistance to the cold after so many years.
I could think of a lot of ways to
Upgrade the little system you have setup, I think the biggest two for you would be to find a way to break the wind and also add your sap a ton slower. Awesome to see the little setup you have going on!
this is Canada isn't it? Literally the only place where you can see a man out side in the snow making maple syrup of all things
Liked the video. Just want to know how to plug the hole of the poor tree after tapping. Thanks
*canadian army wants to know your location*
Canadian gay army with a studdering problem.
Neat vid. My son asked me how maple syrup was made and so I came across this 🙂
can I do this with a cherry tree? :0
go for it bro
What is the length of tapping season? My mother used to do this. Hoping to try it. Gotta find trees. Excellent vid; thanks!!
Draining fluids from a Tree can be fatal
Not if you both it right
if you're a dombass and do like 5 holes
I"m going to have to try this.
I have two sugar maples in my backyard that are massive.
They are over 55 years old and about 4.5' in diameter.
Should be good to tap.
RomanAtWood?
Dunno why I'm watching this lmao
rofl ye
this man deserves my subscription
10 gallons for only a quart of syrup damn
He had a 5 gallon bucket, *cough cough*
Wow had no idea. I’m here having pancakes with maple syrup and wondering how it’s made. Btw I had no idea that it was made from sap... sooo kool
at 4 min try not to get piss (yellow snow) in the camera shot
MMGAMINGGUY or ur prescription bottle lol. Good video tho.
Propane is way too expensive for what the final result is gonna be. Five gallons of sap is only gonna get you s pint of syrup and in that pot it'll take four hours to boil down. Use cinder blocks and wood. You can also use a Duraflame log for less than $3. that'll boil that for three hours.
Beauty video eh! Maple syrup is the nectar of the god eh! Good tips about tapping distance and the south side of the tree.