Do you like maple syrup?

[Alpo]

I don't know if I do. To the best of my knowledge I have never tasted it. The syrup that is put on my pancakes and French toast and scrambled eggs and sausage and everything else that I put syrup on is that "garbage maple flavored crap". I put that in quotes because that's not my opinion. I like it. But actual maple syrup??

 

The reason I asked is because on another board they're having Christmas giveaways, and somebody is going to give away a bottle of maple syrup. I would put my bid in for it, but one of the rules is that you have to pay shipping. If somebody wants to give you a $200 Rock chucker press, that's fine, but you got to pay the $30 shipping to get it. And this is a half gallon jug.

 

I can go down to the grocery store and buy a half pint bottle of maple syrup for five or six dollars, if I wish to find out whether I like maple syrup or not. I bet the shipping on a half gallon jug would be closer to 20. So I'm not going to enter into that one.

 

But I hear people, and more frequently I read opinions, of how REAL MAPLE SYRUP is so much better than that artificially flavored pancake syrup.

 

I also hear how much better Coca-Cola made with real sugar is then Coke made with high fructose corn syrup. So I spent the $2.50 to buy a 10 oz bottle of Coca-Cola made with real sugar. I like the corn syrup Coke better.

 

I have an opinion that people hear others talking about how wonderful "this product" is, and they repeat that. Probably often enough that they believe that. But they've never tried that product - whatever that product may be. They just know it is better!!

[Sixgun Seamus]

We use real maple syrup all the time. MUUUUCH BETTER! If you like the fake stuff, guaranteed you'll like the real stuff. 

[Alpo]

Someone told me once upon a time that, once it has been opened, you need to keep the real stuff in the refrigerator or it will spoil. Like mayonnaise - you can't leave it out.

 

I have a bottle of Mrs Butterworths up in the cabinet. I put some on some pancakes a couple days ago. It was fine. It's been up there open for at least 2 years.

 

Will the real stuff last like that?

[Sixgun Seamus]

It will mold just like anything else with sugar but we've never had it spoil and we don't refrigerate it. Just close the cap.

[Eyesa Horg]

We do keep it in the fridge after opened. But have never had it spoil. It may crystalize some. Bet you could mail order a small bottle to try, but then you won't like the high fructose stuff anymore!

Some like the Amber, some, the Dark. The darker has a richer maple flavor.

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Allow me to drop an opine or two here.  YES.  I really like Maple Syrup.  Pure Maple Syrup.  But I prefer Raspberry or Holliday from Stone Wall.  Maple Syrup is a lot like Honey.  Doesn't require refrigeration.  After all, how many trees you see with an electric cord and a condenser??  I also learned, my British friends (I was stationed there), don't refrigerate Mayonnaise.  Doesn't seem to go bad for a long long long time.

[Pat Riot]

Once you go real maple you won’t like the crap or that the case for me. 
I have been using Hickory Syrup. It’s very good too. 

[Pat Riot]

Just now, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

Allow me to drop an opine or two here.  YES.  I really like Maple Syrup.  Pure Maple Syrup.  But I prefer Raspberry or Holliday from Stone Wall.  Maple Syrup is a lot like Honey.  Doesn't require refrigeration.  After all, how many trees you see with an electric cord and a condenser??  I also learned, my British friends (I was stationed there), don't refrigerate Mayonnaise.  Doesn't seem to go bad for a long long long time.

You just sent a shudder through my digestive system. Having been food poisoned twice by the improper handling of mayo I would never eat unrefrigerated mayo. 
 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Most Vermont maple syrup comes from Canada!  But that doesn’t mean it’s bad. To get a good syrup spring you need frosty nights and warming days and the syrup comes out of the trees at 4% and gets boiled down to about 70%, less boiling lighter syrup.  Yummm. 

 

there are maple barns here in NH.

 

Go south of here with poorer conditions and syrup will come out of trees around 1% or less, need a lot more boiling and instead of being grade an light amber it ends up as grade D dark amber. That stuff gets mixed with corn syrup to make your maple flavored sh…. Stuff.

I don’t refrigerate it.

 

13 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

Allow me to drop an opine or two here.  YES.  I really like Maple Syrup.  Pure Maple Syrup.  But I prefer Raspberry or Holliday from Stone Wall.  Maple Syrup is a lot like Honey.  Doesn't require refrigeration.  After all, how many trees you see with an electric cord and a condenser??  I also learned, my British friends (I was stationed there), don't refrigerate Mayonnaise.  Doesn't seem to go bad for a long long long time.

Depends on the mayo, but not recommended.

[Eyesa Horg]

10 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

You just sent a shudder through my digestive system. Having been food poisoned twice by the improper handling of mayo I would never eat unrefrigerated mayo. 
 

Think of all the packets of it at fast food joints. Sits on the counter forever!

[Eyesa Horg]

My Vermont maple syrup come from Vermont within 20 miles of here depending on whom I get it from!!! Yummy. Try it over oven baked salmon!

[Cypress Sun]

15 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Think of all the packets of it at fast food joints. Sits on the counter forever!

 

There's no oxygen in those packets unlike an open jar of mayo. The only opened food type items that I don't refrigerate are honey and peanut butter.

 

Back to the maple syrup, I've had real maple syrup and it was better than the commercial stuff...but I'm not a maple anything fan.

BTW, good luck getting a Rock Chucker, or any other press shipped for $30. I shipped an Square Deal to CA, it was well past $100 for shipping.

Edited December 11, 2024 by Cypress Sun

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I get my maple syrup from 

https://parkersmaplebarn.com/product_info.php?products_id=466

 

i have even watched them tap the trees.

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

PLUS ONE for Pat Riot > > > > Me Neither!!

[Subdeacon Joe]

I prefer the real stuff.  And Grade B, which I think has a better flavor than the A or A Dark.  I find the synthetic stuff to be cloying.  

Be aware, the real stuff is much thinner then the fake.

[Eyesa Horg]

26 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

shipped an Square Deal to CA, it was well past $100 for shipping.

Wow, I was going to let Dillon referb my SDB this winter since it's over 35 years old! At $100 shipping, maybe not!! Damn 

[Stump Water]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

I also hear how much better Coca-Cola made with real sugar is then Coke made with high fructose corn syrup. So I spent the $2.50 to buy a 10 oz bottle of Coca-Cola made with real sugar. I like the corn syrup Coke better.

 

Soft drinks made with real sugar are better for you.  HFCS is some baaaad stuff.  But that explains why you like Mrs. Butterworths.

 

As Joe said, the real stuff is much thinner.  And what I have had isn't nearly as sweet.  I prefer it.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I found a Canadian brand that is better than almost any other I've tasted.  After it's opened it goes in the fridge and I use it up so quickly that it never has time to spoil.

 

Pancakes, waffles, French toast, hot cereal, cold cereal, ice cream, with milk and vanilla, as an ingredient in some pies, etc.

 

I goes well on almost everything..........except asparagus and fried liver.  

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Wow, I was going to let Dillon referb my SDB this winter since it's over 35 years old! At $100 shipping, maybe not!! Damn 

 

If you have the original box and packaging, you might be able to get Dillon to send you a shipping label. They probably have a negotiated deal with their shipping provider.

 

Shipping costs for private entities are outrageous. Pirate Ship is the best, widely available, that we've found.

 

For the maple syrup thread....from what I've seen, maple syrup is BIG business and maple syrup theft is, evidently, a very profitable enterprise.

Edited December 11, 2024 by Cypress Sun

[Eyesa Horg]

15 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

For the maple syrup thread....from what I've seen, maple syrup is BIG business and maple syrup theft is, evidently, a very profitable enterprise.

Every year it seems we have large scale theft as well as vandalism. Sure isn't the world I grew up in anymore. Where did respect for others go?

[Rye Miles #13621]

I usually pick up a bottle of real maple syrup about a half hour from here. They get it right from the trees there. It’s way better than the store brands, much sweeter too!

[Rip Snorter]

Had a neighbor years back in up state New York, Buster.  He made Maple sugar and syrup.  Good stuff.  He was a very handy guy and had it set up with tubing that ran down hill from the trees to the shed where he cooked the sap down. 

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

My parents made maple syrup for many years after they retired. I love it, better than any commercial syrup. They made the syrup for themselves, so it was made to high standards. I found that early season syrup was lighter and better tasting, late season was darker and stronger flavor. Early season went on food, late season went in cooking. Since they passed I have bought it at stores, roadside stands, anywhere I could find it, none tasted as good as theirs. Recently I found some at Save-a-Lot and Aldis that is quite good, but only the stuff in bottles that I can see through, if the bottle is opaque the tend to fill it with the dark stuff which is only good to add to baked beans.

[Pat Riot]

3 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Think of all the packets of it at fast food joints. Sits on the counter forever!

I was told that they are vacuum sealed and once opened must be used immediately or thrown out.

Regardless, If they aren’t cold I won’t use them. 

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

4 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

You just sent a shudder through my digestive system. Having been food poisoned twice by the improper handling of mayo I would never eat unrefrigerated mayo. 

Wasn't all that long ago that mayo bottles did not state " refrigerate after opening" the vinegar content is high enough to control spoilage. It was probable something else in the food, like onions, that made you sick.  

[Subdeacon Joe]

4 hours ago, Stump Water said:

As Joe said, the real stuff is much thinner.  And what I have had isn't nearly as sweet.  I prefer it

 

To me the sweetness is about the same,  but the taste of the real thing doesn't linger in your mouth for 6 hours. 

 

4 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Pancakes, waffles, French toast, hot cereal, cold cereal, ice cream, with milk and vanilla, as an ingredient in some pies, etc.

 

Not coffee?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

Wasn't all that long ago that mayo bottles did not state " refrigerate after opening" the vinegar content is high enough to control spoilage. It was probable something else in the food, like onions, that made you sick.  

Mayo on things sitting out getting warm will make one sick. There’s not much vinegar in good mayo. In real Mayo there no vinegar at all, a little lemon juice is all.

 

 

Edited December 11, 2024 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Rye Miles #13621]

The mayo packets are sealed much like the mayo jars that sit out in the grocery stores. Refrigerate after opening. I thought everyone knew that!🙄

[Oak Ridge Regulator]

Made maple syrup my whole life, families been making it since they first imported English tin to make the pans with back in the early 1800s, my friends in Georgia who grew up on cane syrup don’t like the flavor of maple syrup. The lighter the grade the less maple flavor, also syrup boiled over wood has a lot different taste than syrup made on a commercial arch from reverse osmosis sap. My advise is make friends with a few Yankees and have one of them round you up a half dozen 1/2 pint bottle of different grades and have them try and find you at least one bottle made over a wood fired arch. If I hadent sold my farm a few years back I would send you some but I’m buying it myself now days. It’s good stuff

[John Kloehr]

For commonly available in the grocery store (and Amazon), you won't go wrong with:

 

 

There is better, but this is not crap. Still a bit expensive but it is a real thing.

[Alpo]

The stuff in question.

 

 

 

I don't know whether this is a good brand or a bad brand or good stuff or bad stuff or middle of the road stuff.

 

But notice at the bottom of the jug - 64 fluid ounces.

[John Kloehr]

3 minutes ago, Alpo said:

The stuff in question.

 

 

 

I don't know whether this is a good brand or a bad brand or good stuff or bad stuff or middle of the road stuff.

 

But notice at the bottom of the jug - 64 fluid ounces.

A tittle bland but affordable and not HFCS or "flavored."

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

30 minutes ago, Alpo said:

The stuff in question.

 

 

 

I don't know whether this is a good brand or a bad brand or good stuff or bad stuff or middle of the road stuff.

 

But notice at the bottom of the jug - 64 fluid ounces.

Mine says 750ml...whatever that is in real measurements.  It's medium amber color.

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

I’m not real fond of plain maple flavor and I don’t like thin syrups.  I like to cook down my syrups until they are thicker.  Maple doesn’t cook down so well. I generally add maple syrup to white Karo to thicken it up some. The dark has a stronger flavor and blends well.

[Sedalia Dave]

14 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

You just sent a shudder through my digestive system. Having been food poisoned twice by the improper handling of mayo I would never eat unrefrigerated mayo. 
 

 

Wasn't the mayo. Does mayonnaise cause foodborne illness? 

 

Miracle Whip contains similar ingredients, so I suspect it has the same properties.