{"id":4080,"date":"2016-03-01T02:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2016-03-01T02:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:55:19","slug":"the-little-evaporator-that-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=4080","title":{"rendered":"The little evaporator that could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We fired our 2&#8217;x3&#8242; Mason evaporator for our first boil ever. We boiled ~80 gallons in 12 hours. We&#8217;ve learned lots of lessons and will have to make several improvements to our current setup. It&#8217;s still very cool that we are now able to produce more than enough maple syrup to cover our family&#8217;s yearly consumption.<a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender2-e1456799668762.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4083\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender2-e1456799668762.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender(2)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3405-e1456800810948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4085\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3405-e1456800810948.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3405\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The smell is great<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-02-29-21_51_57.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4086\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-02-29-21_51_57.gif\" alt=\"2016-02-29 21_51_57\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Boiling well into the night<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3491-e1456799361955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4081\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3491-e1456799361955.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3491\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a>We still need to finish the syrup on our cookstove, filter it, and can it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We fired our 2&#8217;x3&#8242; Mason evaporator for our first boil ever. We boiled ~80 gallons in 12 hours. We&#8217;ve learned lots of lessons and will have to make several improvements to our current setup. It&#8217;s still very cool that we are now able to produce more than enough maple syrup to cover our family&#8217;s yearly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=4080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The little evaporator that could&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maple-syrup","category-self-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}