You are so awesome Modern Refugee. They grow a lot of sugar beets around here and many drop off of the trucks. I never knew what to do with them. Now I do. Bless you dear man.
Bumped into your channel trying to make molasses for the fun of it. Great TH-cam channel ! (I'm replying because there are 69 comments its too perfect)
WOW! Nice job. And an electric out at the perfect time! Just goes to show you you can do all kinds of things without power! Blessings from NE Missouri!
Anyone else considering how to get sugar, consider the Jujube tree. When the fruit is dried, it is about 50% sugar by volume. For that matter, probably any dried fruit is a good ingredient to add sugar.
Great video! Explained everything very thoroughly and from someone with a small attention span like me I think you did a good job keeping my attention.
Subscribed :) As you probably already know, food costs are continually going up...growing your own food is well worth the time it takes. We started with a small garden, and now each year we add more and more items to grow. Neighbors probably hate us, but our 1 acre is now always growing something all year round. This just hit the "ADD to our grow program" ....add this to granulated sugar...homemade brown sugar. Thank you.
In looking through your videos, it looks like you are in Michigan. Hello from the thumb! I pick up dropped sugar beets along the road and make my own sugar molasses. It takes a lot but as you know, knowledge is power.
great video and very interesting! i saw an article where they basically described what you did, but said that if it cools off in a cold place then it will develop sugar crystals that you could grind to make a granulated sugar, is this true, or did it happen for you? thank you again for the video!
Good, Modern Refugee. Next time thick and black for blackstrap molasses. Forgot, from the last time, you need a battery bank. I got your back. thank you for share.
My similar experience with wild lettuce. A 5 gallon bucket yielded about a quarter cup of resin. It works for pain though and there is plenty growing out there! Ok..so now I can make sugar (sort of)..with my honey bees. Next: figure how to grow/process coffee. Yes I've done the dandelion root.
From what I learned is that coffee only thrives in the equatorial regions 😢. It has been tried in different regions, in greenhouses and with growlights and so on, bit they didn't do well. No clue if the plants didn't produce at all, but the quality wasn't what was needed.
@@Malikai01 yep. I tried growing coffee. Firstly the beans..time one gets them are already blahhh. Need fresher beans that haven't been shipped stored radiated etc, lol. Confederate army made coffee out of peanuts..roasted..or whatever else they could get. But wild lettuce...I see no future shortage....short of nuclear war. Then doubt I'll be worried about coffee! God bless!
@@Malikai01 coffee trees do well when stressed from pests believe it or not lol…..they produce more caffeine and have a richer flavour (it’s the plants reaction to being attacked)… so if you can keep the humidity & temperature constant, there are things you can do to mimic it & get decent results. I think they just need a lot of care and are long term plants…
Be cool to spread it thin on a piece of parchment paper and dehydrate it. Then you could grind it to a sugar like consistency for easier inclusion into baked goods.
I don't know anything about those sugar beets but the kind we have here we start cooking our beets with the peel on and after a while the peel slides off we change the water and start cooking again. Your method is the very much the same for cooking of the water to make maple syrup. thanks for the lesson.
glen1arthur Interesting how you do it. I was always taught to peal them. It’s cool to hear of other people’s ways of doing things. Thanks for sharing your way.
my thoughts are how do i get a process down from high tunnel green house(plant and harvest from a high tunnel) to an efficient cook out process to having it help finish off / sweeten up some cattle and livestock etc as bonus treat/feed.
Very interesting! I watched a couple make nolasses sugar from syrup they tapped. At the last foaming stage the beat it with electric beaters off heat and the syrup crystallized. I wonder if that would work with your syrup? I was hopin to see your baked beans at rhe end lol.
Looks a lot like „goldsaft“ which is a German sort of jam. It can also be used for cooking but most ppl put it on their bread or on their pancakes, just like marmalade or like Nutella.
The heat is necessary to do the job of reducing and for you to end up with thick sugar. Just juicing will turn out too watery, literally speaking an concentrate (if made with little to nothing of water) beet juice with faint ( depends on your beet but normally) sweet flavor. Is good and definitely health but will not (probably, based on my experiences) turn into sugar...but if u discover a way let's us know.
We use it fresh when I make it, or store it in the cupboard for several weeks. We make baked beans with it and they are especially good. Because of the high sugar content, it could be hot water bathed for 20 minutes.
if you take that beet sugar, and boil it down til its dry do you get angivita yeast??? or nurtritional yeast??? or can that only be done with sugar cane???
Spread it on a pan and sprinkle a little white sugar on it. That will cause crystals to form. Then it can be grated or broke up to for sort of a raw sugar.
did you weigh the beets? I grow sugar beets too so just curious what the yield is. I read 10 to 20 % sugar from the washed prepared beet weight. I made it before to get used to the process and now I have a heaping galvanized tub filled solid of beets. I'm guessing 60 lbs or something. I'm trying to imagine how much it will yield. Going to turn some of it into sugar the same way traditional taiwanese brown sugar is made
@@ModernRefugee well I'll try to weigh mine and report back the yield. going to use a giant 10 gallon brew pot to boil them so it doesn't take me a million years lol it's a lot less energy than boiling down tons of maple sap though. I never even watered the things and they grew great. I waited till frost to lift them too and noticed the industry stores them in piles for many months before turning into sugar so that's what I'm doing. The sugar increases the longer you store them. All my roots crops I grow taste super sweet when I lift them after first frost so I'm hoping I could get a high yield since this is good country for beet growing
@@ModernRefugee Gotcha. So, I could juice it, add the juice and pulp to a pot and cook it all then? I'm trying to not have to grate since I have bad elbows, lol.
I once tried to make molasses from beets. It had TERRIBLE smell and taste. I think that's why we don't see beets molasses (or syrup) in stores or wherever. Just white refined sugar.
Federico Samyn Dowie I didn’t really use a ratio. I put enough water on the shredded beets to keep them covered. If I had to say a amount of water probably a gallon and a half and about 8 shredded beets.
You brought back the same strained liquid and sugar beet in the casserole, pot again? Or you took only the liquid back? I lost the plot at that point...
Describing a molasses sugar as a sugary molasses taste is like saying "those beans taste beanie". Is it sweet, bitter, sharp, taste nice or not? Does it taste gritty, earthy, fresh. How does it compare to normal sugar?
I'm sorry to hear that -- though, in the long run, having immediate consequences for eating sugar might help you eat healthier, so you'll probably outlive us all :D That said, if you're interested in making your own stuff you might benefit from looking into beekeeping :)
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You are so awesome Modern Refugee. They grow a lot of sugar beets around here and many drop off of the trucks. I never knew what to do with them. Now I do. Bless you dear man.
Bumped into your channel trying to make molasses for the fun of it. Great TH-cam channel ! (I'm replying because there are 69 comments its too perfect)
WOW! Nice job. And an electric out at the perfect time! Just goes to show you you can do all kinds of things without power! Blessings from NE Missouri!
Anyone else considering how to get sugar, consider the Jujube tree. When the fruit is dried, it is about 50% sugar by volume. For that matter, probably any dried fruit is a good ingredient to add sugar.
Jujube??? Don't know what that is. Zone 3, I can grow sugar beets.
@SirenaSpades The Chinese date. Different from the Middle Eastern variety.
Great video! Explained everything very thoroughly and from someone with a small attention span like me I think you did a good job keeping my attention.
Thank you for making this video, and especially for showing all the steps, and how much you got from one beet! 😊🙌
This is a great video thanks for sharing you technique I will try some sugar beets in the garden next yeae
This was extremely interesting. Thank you.
Subscribed :) As you probably already know, food costs are continually going up...growing your own food is well worth the time it takes. We started with a small garden, and now each year we add more and more items to grow. Neighbors probably hate us, but our 1 acre is now always growing something all year round.
This just hit the "ADD to our grow program" ....add this to granulated sugar...homemade brown sugar.
Thank you.
How do you store it and how long?
In looking through your videos, it looks like you are in Michigan. Hello from the thumb! I pick up dropped sugar beets along the road and make my own sugar molasses. It takes a lot but as you know, knowledge is power.
Heyy from Detroit!
Great video! I'll look forward to hearing how your homemade molasses tastes with the baked beans :-)
Me too lol
Loved this video. I've been meaning to try to process sugar beets, to see if it would be usable. Thank you.
great video and very interesting! i saw an article where they basically described what you did, but said that if it cools off in a cold place then it will develop sugar crystals that you could grind to make a granulated sugar, is this true, or did it happen for you? thank you again for the video!
Elizabeth Frei it will, but I left it as a liquid.
Modern Refugee. oh ok, thank you!
very cool thx for sharing
Good, Modern Refugee. Next time thick and black for blackstrap molasses. Forgot, from the last time, you need a battery bank. I got your back. thank you for share.
Diebulfrog79 yes I do need a battery bank.
My similar experience with wild lettuce. A 5 gallon bucket yielded about a quarter cup of resin. It works for pain though and there is plenty growing out there! Ok..so now I can make sugar (sort of)..with my honey bees. Next: figure how to grow/process coffee. Yes I've done the dandelion root.
From what I learned is that coffee only thrives in the equatorial regions 😢. It has been tried in different regions, in greenhouses and with growlights and so on, bit they didn't do well. No clue if the plants didn't produce at all, but the quality wasn't what was needed.
@@Malikai01 yep. I tried growing coffee. Firstly the beans..time one gets them are already blahhh. Need fresher beans that haven't been shipped stored radiated etc, lol. Confederate army made coffee out of peanuts..roasted..or whatever else they could get. But wild lettuce...I see no future shortage....short of nuclear war. Then doubt I'll be worried about coffee! God bless!
@@Malikai01 coffee trees do well when stressed from pests believe it or not lol…..they produce more caffeine and have a richer flavour (it’s the plants reaction to being attacked)… so if you can keep the humidity & temperature constant, there are things you can do to mimic it & get decent results.
I think they just need a lot of care and are long term plants…
Great how-to video. Very helpful and the fact you did it grid-down style is awesome. Actually encouraging. Thanks for sharing how to do this.😃👍🇺🇸
Very interesting !
Would be good to see the baked beans creation as well
Sun Set I just may do that!
I was think the same thing.... been awhile from the last time I made beans from scratch.
Love your awesome experiment
Be cool to spread it thin on a piece of parchment paper and dehydrate it. Then you could grind it to a sugar like consistency for easier inclusion into baked goods.
Wow. Guns Coast to Coast recommended you. What a blessing!!
Thank you!
you can have my share of the beans ! Kidding , ok useful to see sugar extraction .
I don't know anything about those sugar beets but the kind we have here we start cooking our beets with the peel on and after a while the peel slides off we change the water and start cooking again. Your method is the very much the same for cooking of the water to make maple syrup. thanks for the lesson.
glen1arthur Interesting how you do it. I was always taught to peal them. It’s cool to hear of other people’s ways of doing things. Thanks for sharing your way.
my thoughts are how do i get a process down from high tunnel green house(plant and harvest from a high tunnel) to an efficient cook out process to having it help finish off / sweeten up some cattle and livestock etc as bonus treat/feed.
Very interesting! I watched a couple make nolasses sugar from syrup they tapped. At the last foaming stage the beat it with electric beaters off heat and the syrup crystallized. I wonder if that would work with your syrup? I was hopin to see your baked beans at rhe end lol.
Thanks for watching. I did a separate video on the baked beans.
That only works with tapped tree sap
Looks a lot like „goldsaft“ which is a German sort of jam. It can also be used for cooking but most ppl put it on their bread or on their pancakes, just like marmalade or like Nutella.
Interesting. Ive never seen sugar beets. Its still weird seeing a beet that isnt bright red inside. Didnt know any of this so thank you
Palmetto Prepared yes that’s what I was trying to do during Will’s live chat lol.
@@ModernRefugee i can see why you were distracted lol
So interesting! I want to try this!
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Peace to you my friend.
What if one simply juiced it without boiling it? Is the heat actually necessary, or just part of the myth that it makes it safer?
I’ve only seen it cooked down to reduce it. If you try it with just juicing it, let me know how it turns out.
The heat is necessary to do the job of reducing and for you to end up with thick sugar. Just juicing will turn out too watery, literally speaking an concentrate (if made with little to nothing of water) beet juice with faint ( depends on your beet but normally) sweet flavor. Is good and definitely health but will not (probably, based on my experiences) turn into sugar...but if u discover a way let's us know.
Juicing then boiling the juice could really reduce the cooking time
I wondered how to do this.
Good work Man, this is a really good skill, also how do you store it and do you pressure cook it?
We use it fresh when I make it, or store it in the cupboard for several weeks. We make baked beans with it and they are especially good. Because of the high sugar content, it could be hot water bathed for 20 minutes.
if you take that beet sugar, and boil it down til its dry do you get angivita yeast??? or nurtritional yeast??? or can that only be done with sugar cane???
I don’t know. I’ve only done it like the video shows.
@@ModernRefugee its the remains from making the sugar that you have on the sides of the pot........
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How many pounds of beets did you start out with to get that much syrup?
Cecil BeMee I should have weighed it. I’d say 10-12 lbs of grated after I pealed and cleaned them.
@@ModernRefugee Ok thanks☺
Just the one beet...or how many to half jar?
3-4
What would you need to do to get it to cristalize?
Spread it on a pan and sprinkle a little white sugar on it. That will cause crystals to form. Then it can be grated or broke up to for sort of a raw sugar.
Does this work with sweet potatoes ?
I don’t know, I’ve only ever used sugar beets.
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awesome, and do you use the remaining beet pulp? great videos
sub dawg I composted it, but it could be used for animal feed.
Can you plant these in the fall? Any tips for growing?
Audrey Boyd they are planted in early spring. They like the same as other beets. Looser soil so the root can grow
did you weigh the beets? I grow sugar beets too so just curious what the yield is. I read 10 to 20 % sugar from the washed prepared beet weight. I made it before to get used to the process and now I have a heaping galvanized tub filled solid of beets. I'm guessing 60 lbs or something. I'm trying to imagine how much it will yield. Going to turn some of it into sugar the same way traditional taiwanese brown sugar is made
No I didn’t weight them, sorry
@@ModernRefugee well I'll try to weigh mine and report back the yield. going to use a giant 10 gallon brew pot to boil them so it doesn't take me a million years lol it's a lot less energy than boiling down tons of maple sap though. I never even watered the things and they grew great. I waited till frost to lift them too and noticed the industry stores them in piles for many months before turning into sugar so that's what I'm doing. The sugar increases the longer you store them. All my roots crops I grow taste super sweet when I lift them after first frost so I'm hoping I could get a high yield since this is good country for beet growing
@@MrMcGillicuddy sounds good, I’ll look for your findings. Have a good day.
How many lbs. of the beets did you start out with ?
15lbs
I have a juicer, will that work better or should i still cook it?
Still cook it.
@@ModernRefugee Gotcha. So, I could juice it, add the juice and pulp to a pot and cook it all then? I'm trying to not have to grate since I have bad elbows, lol.
@@DarkFoxKirin yes that should work
@@ModernRefugee Sweet, thanks!
nice video thanks
I’ve always loved molasses but I’ve never had home made. Do you know where you can get sugar beet?
I’ve never seen them in stores, but they grow them in the upper Midwest for sugar production. I’m sure you could get seed to grow some as well.
Cool I’ve never seen them in stores either
That is really 😎
Interesting video! Believe it or not this is where MSG use to come from.
Cooking Preparedness 101 I never knew that. I learned something today.
@@ModernRefugee A cool book packed with info is Herbs spices and flavorings by Tom Stobart which is where I learned that from.
Cooking Preparedness 101 thanks
NEAT!! Thanks for sharing this. It's very worthwhile knowledge for SHTF-times. :-D
So you had about seven beets for that cook down?
EcoCentric Homestead yes if I remember correctly
One beet made 10 oz of molasses or all of those beats did? It looked like you started with way more than one beet.
I use several beets.
I can't imagine what the flavor is like.. Great job!
Cooking Preparedness 101 it’s sweet/ molasses taste that is slightly earthy. But that cooks out in the baked beans.
This person has never tasted molasses??
I once tried to make molasses from beets. It had TERRIBLE smell and taste. I think that's why we don't see beets molasses (or syrup) in stores or wherever. Just white refined sugar.
I wonder if slow cooking gives a different color and flavor.
Jack Hoffman I have never tried it. If you do let us know how it turns out.
hello, what's the water (you add) to weight (of the beets) ratio?
Federico Samyn Dowie I didn’t really use a ratio. I put enough water on the shredded beets to keep them covered. If I had to say a amount of water probably a gallon and a half and about 8 shredded beets.
Should wait until it is cooled before you put the lid on it
You brought back the same strained liquid and sugar beet in the casserole, pot again?
Or you took only the liquid back?
I lost the plot at that point...
Strain the pulp out and cook down the liquid
Can i feed it to cows?
I’m no farmer, but they do compress the beet pulp commercially and sell it as animal feed.
@@ModernRefugee People do feed molasses to cattle but im wondering if your molasses are for cows
@@proxy1049 no, it was for my baked beans. They turned out good too.
Which accent is from?
The...a.. 😊
Michigan
Describing a molasses sugar as a sugary molasses taste is like saying "those beans taste beanie". Is it sweet, bitter, sharp, taste nice or not? Does it taste gritty, earthy, fresh. How does it compare to normal sugar?
Take a tablespoon of white sugars and mix it in a half cup of molasses and that’s what it tastes like. Tastes like very sweet blackstrap
molasses.
butch roll that beautiful bean footage.
You need a centerfuge so you can separate the sugar from the molasses. You can build one quite easily.
Or...you just use a thermometer cook to 130 centigrade, take it off the stove and stir until it crystallise into sugar proper.
How do you store it long term? Do you can it? Pressure or water bath?
c m I have never canned it, but I don’t see why it could not be hot water bathed.
@@ModernRefugee Thank you
Hmmm. Good to know.
Unfortunately I'm allergic to them..
Dr. Said instant migraine=allergy.
I'm sorry to hear that -- though, in the long run, having immediate consequences for eating sugar might help you eat healthier, so you'll probably outlive us all :D
That said, if you're interested in making your own stuff you might benefit from looking into beekeeping :)
it will be the chemicals they spray on them you're allergic to, try organic beets you'll probably be okay
feed the pulp to chicken, pigs or compost.
Diebulfrog79 it went to compost.
Are these easy to grow in clay soil in Pennsylvania?
They grow in clay around here.
Just worry about your jujubi
Kinda
Is there a way to turn this syrup into brown sugar?
You could mix some with white sugar otherwise it’s liquid only
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Alice Wilde spoken for, but thanks anyway lol.