Christmas Gifts

[WFM]

Every year for Christmas i bottle up two gallons of maple syrup into glass bottles and give it to family and friends. So this year was no different.
I put the glass into a hot bath to warm the glass.
Heat the syrup to 200*f.
Then take a oven mitt thing to hold the bottle. The pan is use has a hands free bottling valve that electric with a solenoid valve. It has a tredle switch i just sit on the counter and use my hand to run it. Click it on. Release it it closes the valve.
So I start bottling. My first bottle the valve Won't Close !!!!
Nope. Hot syrup just pouring onto onto my mitt and finger in a split second. I did have a towel on the floor and large pot to put down as I beat the tredle to shut off. Finally it did.
I washed the kitchen floor four times. It still might be sticky.
Syrup bottled. Next year I'll use a ball valve to bottle with.

 

[Moose7060]

Ouch. All those bottles sure look good though!

 

[chim]

Ouch! I remember the pain from long ago when the back of my hand was between the pot of boiling sugar and the cold water it was headed for to see if it would "ball". Keep bacitracin or neomycin on it till healed with Telfa pads. Mine was starting to get infected. It was Winter and the elastic cuff on my glove kept ripping it open.

 

[Sidekick]

I just made some wall hanger gifts. Lasered an AI generated Santa face on Birch plywood and made wild cherry frames from backyard cherry.

Last year I made a bunch of ornaments

 

[Russell King]

Every year for Christmas i bottle up two gallons of maple syrup into glass bottles and give it to family and friends. So this year was no different.
I put the glass into a hot bath to warm the glass.
Heat the syrup to 200*f.
Then take a oven mitt thing to hold the bottle. The pan is use has a hands free bottling valve that electric with a solenoid valve. It has a tredle switch i just sit on the counter and use my hand to run it. Click it on. Release it it closes the valve.
So I start bottling. My first bottle the valve Won't Close !!!!
Nope. Hot syrup just pouring onto onto my mitt and finger in a split second. I did have a towel on the floor and large pot to put down as I beat the tredle to shut off. Finally it did.
I washed the kitchen floor four times. It still might be sticky.
Syrup bottled. Next year I'll use a ball valve to bottle with.

Sorry you were burned so badly.

There is a prescription cream called Silvadene that is great for burns keeping from infection. If I had that burn I would be using it for sure! I think it is also a soothing cream that helps with pain.

 

[BBFarmer]

Ouch.

Had a similar experience with peanut brittle.

Whether its maple syrup, corn syrup, sugar etc....once on the skin, it's all like napalm.

And is not friendly trying to wipe off either lol.

 

[NCL4701]

I thought molten beeswax burns were the worst. As soon as it hits your skin, it coats you and sticks as it solidifies enough to prevent wiping off but not solid enough to peel off, effectively preventing removal while it burns you until it’s cooled at which point you can peel it off in a sheet along with your burned flesh. However, that syrup burn looks equally miserable.

 

[skeets]

I just made some wall hanger gifts. Lasered an AI generated Santa face on Birch plywood and made wild cherry frames from backyard cherry.
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Last year I made a bunch of ornaments
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Very cool,, tell me about your laser set up if you wouldnt mind

 

[Sidekick]

Very cool,, tell me about your laser set up if you wouldnt mind

I have several different lasers. This was made using a 40 watt Diode laser that I find gives the best results on wood. I also have 2 Co2 lasers that are good for cutting wood (faster engraving but less detail) and do a great job acrylic. I also have several other low power diode lasers. Here's a quick video about making these plaques that shows the lasering in the beginning

They have been a fun hobby that I started playing with when the first affordable ones were released during the pandemic. Then companies started sending me newer and more powerful machines that I started making videos about. I have many different videos on my youtube channel basically showing hundreds of simple projects that helped get people interested in them. Acrylic night lights are very easy to make

And even materials like leather make nice gifts from scrap.

Engraving glass and stone is another use for the Co2 machines.

 

[skeets]

Man that is really neat. Now I will ask what all would a person need to use something like that?
I use to do some leather work, but cutting and punching holes is rather exhausting these days. I have to assume that you need a puter and some software to a good understanding of puters too