<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Kirk, I got mine from a maple syrup supplier. Easy to find if you google it. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Ken<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 20, 2016, at 2:19 AM, Kirk Palis <<a href="mailto:kirkdavidson@yahoo.com">kirkdavidson@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15130"><span>Hi Tobby,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15131"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15133"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15132">Where did you get your hydrometer? We use one and it is difficult to read.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15134"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15135"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15160">Thanks,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15136"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15137"><span>Kirk</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15138"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15180" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15179"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15178"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tobby Taylor <<a href="mailto:tobbyt@gmail.com">tobbyt@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> A list for sorghum and cane syrupmakers <<a href="mailto:syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net">syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 19, 2016 11:15 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Syrupmakers] crystallization<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15177"><br><div id="yiv7638779185"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15182"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15181">I cook my sugarcane juice in a kettle and I use a hydrometer to measure the thickness. I cook my juice down to a specific gravity of 35 to 36. I tested syrup several years ago. As I cooked it down, I pull syrup off at different <span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458457778201_15183">specific gravities. I found out that 34 and below will not turn to sugar. Syrup cooked to 34 or less is too thin for me. 35 will start to sugar after about 2 years and 36 will sugar a small amount within a year. 35 to 36 has just enough thickness for me to call it syrup. 37 and higher make a good thick syrup but it sugars at the drop of a hat. The bottom line to this is, the thicker the syrup, the more it will sugar. </span></div><div id="yiv7638779185AppleMailSignature"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv7638779185AppleMailSignature"><span style="">Tobby Taylor</span></div><div id="yiv7638779185AppleMailSignature"><span style="">Morton, Mississippi </span></div><div id="yiv7638779185AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7638779185yqt9034705000" id="yiv7638779185yqt49647"><div><br clear="none">On Mar 19, 2016, at 9:25 PM, Ken Reitsma <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Reit8472@sw.rr.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Reit8472@sw.rr.com">Reit8472@sw.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><div class="yiv7638779185yqt9034705000" id="yiv7638779185yqt26181"><div>Glen.. What do you mean when you say " let fall to bottom of pot" ? </div><div id="yiv7638779185AppleMailSignature">Ken<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br clear="none">On Mar 19, 2016, at 8:10 PM, Glenn Johnson <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gjohn46@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:gjohn46@yahoo.com">gjohn46@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7638779185yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458435594645_52857">I have some syrup that is over 3 years old with very little crystallization. I cook the syrup to 226 kill heat let fall to bottom of pot and put in hot jars. This has worked good for me.</div> <div class="yiv7638779185qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7638779185yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, March 19, 2016 9:26 AM, Stanley Hildebrand <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:stan@sandhillfarm.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:stan@sandhillfarm.org">stan@sandhillfarm.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv7638779185y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7638779185"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I have been making sorghum syrup for 35 years; my biggest challenge is crystallization - when i put sell the product to grocery stores.<br clear="none"></div>anyone have any experience/knowledge about using products - eg, citric acid to decrease crystalliztion?<br clear="none"></div>I have tried using invertase - and not found it effective. 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