How Do You Build A Homemade Maple Syrup Evaporator?
Homemade food products can taste even better than those sold at a store because of the hard work and dedication you put into the project. With a stand of maple trees in your yard and a little ingenuity, you can make homemade maple syrup on your own and have your family enjoying that sweet flavor all year round. Making maple syrup involves more than just harvesting from the trees. To get the sticky, sweet syrup that we all know and love, you have to boil off the water that is extracted from the tree with the sap. For that, you need a homemade syrup evaporator. Set up your outdoor firepit, or construct one if necessary. Clear an area of your yard and surround it with stones, cinder blocks or pieces of wet wood to separate the fire from the rest of the ground. Start the fire in your firepit. Crumple up some old newspaper, and put it in the center of your firepit. Surround it with dry wood. Light the newspaper on fire and allow it time to catch the wood. Keep adding wood so that the fire s
