George Shirley wrote:
> Took almost precisely two hours and fifteen minutes to get the boiler
> level down to where I decided to shut it off. So far we have five cups
> of pear juice and I haven't emptied the juice container part lately so
> there will most likely be more.
>
> Once I got the thing up to boiling I set the timer for one hour and
> walked away to do other things. Worked fine, did the job I hired it to
> do, and I'm happy with the machinery. Not real happy with the clamp on
> the end of the tubing but believe I can attach a stainless steel quarter
> turn valve to that end and do a better job of controlling the flow. May
> even increase the length of the tubing so I can just set a pot on the
> oven door and let it run into that once it starts juicing good. I see
> many potentials here. Thank goodness I used to operate units in chemical
> plants, same theory as a basic boiler with a petcock here.

Ended up with eight cups of pear juice out of about three or four lbs of
pears. May make some more pear jelly tomorrow. Decided to compost the
pulp, got enough pear sauce as it is.