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vacuum pan
noun
- a vessel equipped with a vacuum pump used for rapid evaporation by boiling a substance at a low temperature under reduced pressure.
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This necessity will be less urgent if the liquor be made to boil before being introduced into the vacuum pan.
The repetition of this process for two or three times is imagined to produce the large brilliant grain of vacuum-pan sugar.
But when the vacuum pan was introduced the molasses was impoverished of its sweetness and beet sugar does not yield any molasses.
The process of emptying the vacuum pan is technically called a "strike."
The original vacuum pan used by Gail Borden in 1853 for condensing milk by concentrating it in a vacuum.
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