Flavor Friday #8 - 50 Gallons of Sugar Water

Today we are scaling up the amount of sugar water you make to supply your shaved ice business. This episode is for those of you who are creating sugar water in a quantity that makes doing it, one 5 gallon jug at a time, feel laborious.
So, as with our tradition, whenever something starts to feel too much like work, we make a better way!
Callie introduces both our 30 Gallon Mixer and our 50 Gallon Mixer. So, to state the obvious, the 30 gallon mixer is the same as making (6) 5 gallon jugs of sugar water at a time, where the 50 gallon mixer is like making (10) 5 gallon jugs of sugar water at once. Now, as you have seen in our videos, it is quite easy to make (10) 5 gallon jugs of sugar water. But if you are making that quantity over and over again, it can start to feel like a burden. So how relieving would it feel to add all your contents into one container (separating, of course, when your preservative and citric acid are added), let it do its thing, and then come back and simply pour it into each of your 5 gallon jugs? Let me tell you, it is like heaven.
The item we are featuring today is the 50 gallon mixer. This mixer has a top mounted motor and has a long rod with two props for more efficient mixing. The process for making sugar water or simple syrup in this scenario is exactly the same as if you were making it in a 5 gallon jug, only you will multiply your quantities by 10. I will go through this process quickly for the end result of 50 gallons of sugar water.
First, you will add 5 gallons of water.
Second, add your preservative. If you are using the powder, you will use one scoop per 5 gallons, so you will use 10 scoops. If you have the liquid preservative, you will use 2 ounces per 5 gallons. So you are going to pour in 20 ounces of liquid preservative.
Third, you will add your Shooga. Ok, it is sugar, but it is so much more fun to say Shooga. You are going to add 250 lbs of sugar. That is (10) 25 lb bags of sugar.
Fourth, you now will top your water off at the 50 gallon mark. Once you start mixing and your sugar starts to shift, that level will drop, but get your sugar dissolved first.
Fifth, while you are mixing in your sugar, you will add your Citric Acid. You will add one scoop of powder for every 5 gallons. For Citric Acid, the calculation is the same whether you have powder or liquid, so your liquid measurement will be the same, one ounce for every 5 gallons. So using powder or liquid Citric Acid, you are going to add 10 ounces of Citric Acid to make your 50 gallons of Sugar Water.
Sixth, turn off your motor and let the level of liquid settle. You will notice the level drop because the sugar water is not spinning. Add water until you reach the 50 gallon mark and then mix for another minute.
Seventh, while you are doing this last minute mix, it is a good idea to pour off some of your sugar water into a 5 gallon jug and return that to the top of the mixture. This helps to make sure you do not have a build up of sugar or preservative in the pour spout at the bottom.
Thanks for watching Flavor Friday, Episode 8 on making sugar water in a 50 Gallon Mixer!
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[@icecreamladydriver1606]

Thanks for the video. I would add that you can add the preservative at the end. I quite often forget. I just get a bowl with hot water and dissolve the preservative and add it to the jug.

[@snowiellc]

Yes, that is a great point. But you still have to be careful. Even if you put Preservative in liquid form in directly with the citric acid, they will bind to one another and not preserve your product. You need to make sure your preservative has been mixed and dissolved in your product before you ever add your Citric Acid. Thanks for your comment.

[@sabrinatigermagic]

Thanks Callie!

[@slugo915]

I love snowie and now i think i have another love. Sorry had to say it your a beautiful woman. Great video.

[@DT935]

i thought it was five # sugar to 1 gal water. so that would be 50 # sugar to 5o gal of water. she just put 50# sugar and enough water to make it 50 gal ? 50# sugar and 50 gal water is somewhere around 70 gal of syrup. no?

[@snowiellc]

It is 5 lbs of sugar to make one gallon of sugar water. So it is 25 lbs of sugar for 5 gallons of sugar water. So in her process of making 50 gallons of sugar water, she will use either (10) 25lb bags or (5) 50lb bags. Then it will take an ounce of preservative for each 5 gallons (total: 10) and the same for citric acid. Does this make sense?