Perfection is strived for but never attained here on the homestead. Who am I trying to kid, I don't strive that hard for it anymore either! LOL Let me know how yours turns out!
@THand141Homestead there are a pair of chemicals that you can add in the water to pull out the contaminents then you can crystalise it to granulated sugar. That's why you see the word refined on sugar sinceits the same for can as well.
The failed projects are the ones you have to put all your faith behind. Sowing the beet seeds go harvesting them to processing. All of it takes effort and time and practice. I’m so excited to see your beer sugar when you’ve practiced this a few times. Magical
I don't waste money on bottled water. I get a 5 gallon office water dispenser and fill it from the sink. I lived on a German farm in Texas and it had an old horse drawn sugar beet grinder and a wood stove outside for boiling molasses. Nice video. I get wounded in the kitchen also🤣
2:45 It might be fun to let it turn black & see what it looks like at the end & if it changes the flavor. Black sugar could be an interesting ingredient or garnish.
Thank you so much for your honest vídeo. It's nice to know which mistakes we are supposed to avoid. Here, in Portugal, there aren't many maples to make cyrup. As for the bees, i'm in a urban zone. Beetroot sugar would definetely be my kind of sugar!
Glad it was helpful! @HickorycroftFarm has had a lot better luck with beets than I have. Here is the link to one of their videos on making sugar with beets th-cam.com/video/km4Q1A7jXSE/w-d-xo.html
@@THand141Homesteadit's gonna get worse before it gets worse. Although we need to remember "a people grows great when the men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit" because it doesn't always have to be bad. Let's make sure our children and their children have it better.
Oh my goodness! What an ordeal! Thanks for showing me why I’d never try this, despite sugar beets growing plentifully in my neck of the woods. Hope your cuts all healed. Ouch!
Those peelers are crazy sharp. Thankfully, my bf bought me a kitchenaid stand mixer and the meat grinder, shredder attachment. Makes shredding a breeze now. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the grinder or peeler attachment yet.
Lol started out as a fun homesteading video and ended up like a Fire Marshall Bill sketch 😂. Thanks for this though. I wonder if it's easier to do a rough chop and then let the beets simmer/soften for a little before getting out your potato masher and mashing them in the pot for the rest of the cooking.
@@brandonmonroe7050 this is just normal TH-cam in my opinion. Fairly normal people showing people how to do things with fairly normal supplies. I think people forget that those prim and proper youtbers almost ALL started with videos like this that they have since purged. It's not like at under 1k subs he is making much off TH-cam if anything so being he very likely LOST money making the video I think the production value is top notch.
Today you suggested the viewers watch your beet sugarvid, so here I am. I wonder if you could use a food processor instead of hand grating. Man, that's a process...one would have to be highly motivated!!
I have never tried the pointed Beet. This was my first attempt at making sugar. I concluded that maple sap is actually easier though it takes longer. Thanks for watching.
I would imagine it could be used as a liquid, you would have to get it down to the moisture content of honey which I think is around 18% to prevent fermentation in storage. I am pretty sure that and measuring out the portions for recipes are really the only reasons to go with powder over liquid.
@@THand141Homestead yep, you mentioned that. I come from a beekeeping family and those bees will give you more honey and wax than you can use AND give you a cash crop!
I would have crushed them, then squeezed them out and soaked them in water. And I would squeeze again. Then I would boil the water until it became syrup and throw away a teaspoon of sugar to crystallize the sugar.
@@THand141Homestead it's not a cheap tool but an Apple Grinder for Cider making would probably fit the bill. Sometimes you can find old ones that need some TLC and can score them for a song.
Did you name your channel for how many times you plan to hurt your hands?😂 Maybe try a fan blowing across it. I saw someone making a type of sugar and when it was syrup they used a mixer. After a while it crystalized. I had never seen that before. I have ordered regular sugar beet seeds from three different companies. I figured genetic diversity and all that lol I just like beets so I thought throwing one sweet one in a dish would be good. Well, in a dish i want sweeter and don't mind beet flavor. Maybe to cut sugar in a chocolate cake or something.
T-Hand141 Homestead... Listen, I have my own thing I do for losing weight and I found it by accident... it's a mixture of different foods. I drink Coke and decaf sweet tea often snd not much water. But for losing weight, I mix a can of diced tomatoes, can of Tomato Juice, whatever kind of extra vegetables I want, or a can of mixed vegetables, a couple cans of chicken breasts, that I mince with a fork, and add a can of black beans. No one seems to want to give what works away for free to actually help people, but I'm helping you and any other that wants to jot this down. It's healthy eating. Im a 45 year old High Functioning Autistic and I started at 248 pounds and now I weigh about 221 pounds 3+ months later. I mean I could probably lose more weight if I changed my diet more or actually exercise. But I make this meal in a big storage bowl and eat usually once a day with meals, and snack throughout the day. But I big bowl usually lasts me a week. I might eat thus mixture one to 2 times a month but every other week if twice per month. I know you will like this idea if you're really wanting to see the difference on a scale...
I'll have to try that! Thank you! I have been eating 4oz of chicken, broccoli and rice, to help me lose. I have also been going to the gym I went from 240lbs to 211 in several months. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing!
I don't believe the red beets have the sugar content necessary to sweeten anything. They are an awesome tool in the war against cancer though! Thanks for watching!
That would be a good idea, but I am trying to live with limited modern conveniences. I am OFF-Grid so every WATT counts. Thanks for the suggestion though!
I was trying not to use the food processor, as I want to be up on my off-grid methods. It probably would have been safer for me! I hope it works out for you. keep me informed!
That my friend is the God's honest truth! My wife of 26 years went to be with Jesus in December of '21. I am fully convinced that wives were given to men to keep us alive longer! Thanks for watching!
I enjoyed watching this cause it gave me realistic expectations when i try to do this myself.... It aint going to be perfect
Perfection is strived for but never attained here on the homestead. Who am I trying to kid, I don't strive that hard for it anymore either! LOL Let me know how yours turns out!
The issue with beets is that it needs refining. You haven't extracted the molasses so the sucrose can't crystallize.
Oh. I didn't know that.
@THand141Homestead there are a pair of chemicals that you can add in the water to pull out the contaminents then you can crystalise it to granulated sugar. That's why you see the word refined on sugar sinceits the same for can as well.
Oh, Thank you!
Save yourself a LOT of standing around and watching, dump your mash into a crock pot and turn it on low overnight. Simmers down nice and gentle.
I'll have to try that next time!
Such a good advice. Thanks!
Thank you... you saved me a tonne of effort, money and garden space. I'll be sticking with my honey, sorhgum canes and maple.
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching.
The failed projects are the ones you have to put all your faith behind. Sowing the beet seeds go harvesting them to processing. All of it takes effort and time and practice. I’m so excited to see your beer sugar when you’ve practiced this a few times. Magical
Great point! I will be trying this again at some point. Thanks for watching.
I don't waste money on bottled water. I get a 5 gallon office water dispenser and fill it from the sink. I lived on a German farm in Texas and it had an old horse drawn sugar beet grinder and a wood stove outside for boiling molasses. Nice video. I get wounded in the kitchen also🤣
Thanks for sharing! That's awesome!
2:45 It might be fun to let it turn black & see what it looks like at the end & if it changes the flavor. Black sugar could be an interesting ingredient or garnish.
It would be nauseously bitter. I've had my go with some home candy making and did burn it several times.
When using a peeler, stab the thing with fork, then peel the impaled thing.
I will have to do that!!
Dont stab ur hand
Thank you so much for your honest vídeo. It's nice to know which mistakes we are supposed to avoid. Here, in Portugal, there aren't many maples to make cyrup. As for the bees, i'm in a urban zone. Beetroot sugar would definetely be my kind of sugar!
Glad it was helpful! @HickorycroftFarm has had a lot better luck with beets than I have. Here is the link to one of their videos on making sugar with beets th-cam.com/video/km4Q1A7jXSE/w-d-xo.html
@@THand141Homestead , thank you for the vídeo :)
This was interesting, no fails when ya learn something from a project.
I agree 100%. As much work as Maple syrup and honey can be, I think between the two one of them is the answer to keep me sweet! Thanks for watching1
The scary part is that a year later I am watching this video because of how much groceries cost. He called it.
Yup. And I have to say. It is going to get worse.
@@THand141Homesteadit's gonna get worse before it gets worse.
Although we need to remember "a people grows great when the men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit" because it doesn't always have to be bad. Let's make sure our children and their children have it better.
I’m watching it another year on from you and it’s way worse🙂
What a rollercoaster
I'll say!
Oh my goodness! What an ordeal! Thanks for showing me why I’d never try this, despite sugar beets growing plentifully in my neck of the woods. Hope your cuts all healed. Ouch!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this video!! I like the real life format.
Those peelers are crazy sharp. Thankfully, my bf bought me a kitchenaid stand mixer and the meat grinder, shredder attachment. Makes shredding a breeze now. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the grinder or peeler attachment yet.
Those are quite handy! I unfortunately am not! LOL
Lol started out as a fun homesteading video and ended up like a Fire Marshall Bill sketch 😂. Thanks for this though. I wonder if it's easier to do a rough chop and then let the beets simmer/soften for a little before getting out your potato masher and mashing them in the pot for the rest of the cooking.
Great idea! It may very well be!
My friend, you are giving me anxiety with the cutting of all of your fingers 😂
Yes, Sorry about that, The kitchen is one of the most dangerous places on the homestead for me to be! LOL Thanks for watching.
This was very painful to watch.
Yeah, it was very painful to film too! LOL thanks for suffering through it!
I can't thinking to myself "is this a parody"??
It's not bad. He filmed the process without all the fake or insufferable stuff. Feel like I was in his house😅
That's because we are trained to think everything is suppose to be absolutely perfect even though nothing ever is.
@@brandonmonroe7050 this is just normal TH-cam in my opinion. Fairly normal people showing people how to do things with fairly normal supplies. I think people forget that those prim and proper youtbers almost ALL started with videos like this that they have since purged. It's not like at under 1k subs he is making much off TH-cam if anything so being he very likely LOST money making the video I think the production value is top notch.
Wow... great video! I enjoyed the ride. Thank you, Dave, for showing us what not to do 😅
No Problem! I am Tracy though. LOL
Today you suggested the viewers watch your beet sugarvid, so here I am. I wonder if you could use a food processor instead of hand grating. Man, that's a process...one would have to be highly motivated!!
Yes, definitely! After a while I used a small food processor.
I want to plant some sugar beet ..when is good time to plant in Washington zone 6
I honestly have no idea. it is a root vegetable so I would assume like a week or two before your last frost date. Hope this helps.
Do you know where I can find non gmo sugar beets to grow? 😊
Baker Creek at rareseeds.com
Thank you!
You bet! Welcome to the channel!
no body else do it perfect at first time.
Thanks, I may try again at some point.
I wonder if you put it in the oven or a dehydrator if that would have made a difference
It may have. I may try this again this summer. Thanks for watching.
Is the round albino beet as sweet as the regular pointed sugar beet? Im looking to make syrup.
I have never tried the pointed Beet. This was my first attempt at making sugar. I concluded that maple sap is actually easier though it takes longer. Thanks for watching.
We're these beets here 60 days old like the package says or closer to 90 days?
This is one of the funniest TH-cam how to videos I've ever seen 😂😂😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wax paper??!? Parchment paper!!! I'm just wondering why it has to be dried into powder and can't be used as a liquid?
I would imagine it could be used as a liquid, you would have to get it down to the moisture content of honey which I think is around 18% to prevent fermentation in storage. I am pretty sure that and measuring out the portions for recipes are really the only reasons to go with powder over liquid.
Bees would be an easier way to get sweetener. Less bloodshed involved.
I actually have bees. LOL and I have decided maple syrup is the easiest1 Thanks for watching!
@@THand141Homestead yep, you mentioned that. I come from a beekeeping family and those bees will give you more honey and wax than you can use AND give you a cash crop!
I would have crushed them, then squeezed them out and soaked them in water. And I would squeeze again. Then I would boil the water until it became syrup and throw away a teaspoon of sugar to crystallize the sugar.
Crushing them might be difficult as they are quite solid. But I am up for almost anything! Thanks for the suggestions.
@@THand141Homestead it's not a cheap tool but an Apple Grinder for Cider making would probably fit the bill. Sometimes you can find old ones that need some TLC and can score them for a song.
You didn't fail 😊 came out with a product 🤷♀️
Thanks!
It was torture watching you peel 😂
My advice if you are shredding by hand ..keep the beets whole so you have more to hold onto
Probably a good idea for me to use the processor! LOL
It begins at 10:15
That it does! Thanks for watching.
I think I’ll use my ninja to grate with. I need my fingers.
LOL. Probably a good idea. I am just a wound magnet when I am in the kitchen! LOL
Tracy in the kitchen! What an adventure!
Right?! I guess cooking is love, and love hurts!! Thanks for watching, and everything you do Marilene!
I'm going to grow stevia.
I want to try that also. Let me know how it works out for you.
may i ask why you didn’t just use the food processor from the start?
I like to try things the old manual ways when I can. I paid for it in blood this time. But being off grid, a watt saved is a watt to use later.
My friend! You need a mandolin.
And using a food processor is not cheating if you create your own electricity.
Thanks!
Mandolins are also known for their finger filleting qualities; a peeler or grater will cut you, but a mandolin will mess you up.
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger 🤣🤣
😂@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger
I’m with above… please do not give this sweet content creator a mandolin!…
I know you didn't set out to do this, but this is like a Saturday Night Live skit.
Such is my life my friend! Such is my life. Thanks for watching.
I was thinking more Red and Green Show. 😅 Although growing up in Rural PNW the Red and Green Show was more of a documentary about us then a comedy.
Did you name your channel for how many times you plan to hurt your hands?😂
Maybe try a fan blowing across it.
I saw someone making a type of sugar and when it was syrup they used a mixer. After a while it crystalized. I had never seen that before.
I have ordered regular sugar beet seeds from three different companies. I figured genetic diversity and all that lol
I just like beets so I thought throwing one sweet one in a dish would be good. Well, in a dish i want sweeter and don't mind beet flavor. Maybe to cut sugar in a chocolate cake or something.
Good ideas! No, 141 is the first and forty first infantry regiment from long ago. Thanks for watching and good luck with the beets!
T-Hand141 Homestead...
Listen, I have my own thing I do for losing weight and I found it by accident... it's a mixture of different foods. I drink Coke and decaf sweet tea often snd not much water. But for losing weight, I mix a can of diced tomatoes, can of Tomato Juice, whatever kind of extra vegetables I want, or a can of mixed vegetables, a couple cans of chicken breasts, that I mince with a fork, and add a can of black beans. No one seems to want to give what works away for free to actually help people, but I'm helping you and any other that wants to jot this down. It's healthy eating. Im a 45 year old High Functioning Autistic and I started at 248 pounds and now I weigh about 221 pounds 3+ months later. I mean I could probably lose more weight if I changed my diet more or actually exercise. But I make this meal in a big storage bowl and eat usually once a day with meals, and snack throughout the day. But I big bowl usually lasts me a week. I might eat thus mixture one to 2 times a month but every other week if twice per month. I know you will like this idea if you're really wanting to see the difference on a scale...
I'll have to try that! Thank you! I have been eating 4oz of chicken, broccoli and rice, to help me lose. I have also been going to the gym I went from 240lbs to 211 in several months. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing!
Almost 6 min in and I am wondering if surgar thats 5% human counts as cannibalism or not...
Edit: 8:24
he throws out the bloody beets... 😢
Too funny! Thanks for watching!
Grating the digits adds a little extra protein to the product you're going to sweeten 😂
So true! This is one instance where I really got into my work! LOL
I always use a fork to grate anything harder than cheese
That's a great idea!! Thanks!
If you have a apple peeler machine works great
That is a really good idea! Thank you!
What about red beets?
I don't believe the red beets have the sugar content necessary to sweeten anything. They are an awesome tool in the war against cancer though! Thanks for watching!
@@THand141Homestead ❤️❤️❤️
The blood in the sink is testimonial
Right!? LOL
It’s not good if you don’t bleed for your craft
True, but I bleed mostly when I am in the kitchen. I guess it's more dangerous than cutting firewood! Thanks for watching.
Whats the cats name lol
His name is Handsome. It was the name the shelter gave him and we kept it when we brought him home with his brother Richie. Thanks for watching!
Np
Invest in a juice machine
That would be a good idea, but I am trying to live with limited modern conveniences. I am OFF-Grid so every WATT counts. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Hand cranked meat grinder
Sugar beets and white beets are NOT synonymous.
Very true, These are White Sugar beets.
dude you are walking accident lol
Mostly in the kitchen! LOL. Thanks for watching!
Wax paper??!? Parchment paper!!!
Not necessary I don't think, but it is easier to remove the product from those than from a baking dish I would think.
jesus chist,you made it through alive ?
Barely! LOL So far the kitchen is the most dangerous place on the homestead! LOL
@@THand141Homestead i am growing sugar beets this year too,i hope it all runs well,hehehehe
I was trying not to use the food processor, as I want to be up on my off-grid methods. It probably would have been safer for me! I hope it works out for you. keep me informed!
Wtf
@jamesadams9451 yeah, I made a mess out of it!. Honey and maple syrup is easier to make sugar with
You need a wife
That my friend is the God's honest truth! My wife of 26 years went to be with Jesus in December of '21. I am fully convinced that wives were given to men to keep us alive longer! Thanks for watching!