Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

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I don't have a thermometer that is really suitable for this, so I was thinking of trying a dummy run with flour or something in the place of the grain with a lab thermometer in it until I can get the setting right.

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dontman

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You at least want to keep pretty close tabs on the oven temp. My oven gets pretty inaccurate at such low temps. I found that an oven temp of 185 or so was good for the first hour and I reduced it to 170 to maintain grain bed temp.

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Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

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I was thinking of using the convection oven part of the microwave rather than the gas oven. I'm not even sure why! LOL

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dontman

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I did use the convection oven feature, for the first time ever, but the minimum temp I could set it at was 300 degrees so I could only use it for the last hour.

Can a microwave convection work without the microwave part? Probably don't want to be irradiating this grain.

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Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

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I have no clue if my microwave uses the microwaves during convecting mode or not. Screw it. I'll use the gas oven.

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dontman

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Now that I have this process pretty well dialed in, the next time I do it I will not mess around. I will be doing at least 8 pounds.

I was expecting the grain to taste really sweet once done the "mashing" process. It was not. But as it was baking post mash it started smelling sweeter and sweeter. At its height it smelled exactly like I was doing a full batch boil in the house. Delicious. Except to the wife. She worked in a food lab for 10 years out in Columbus Ohio and whenever I brew in the house she gets flashbacks to the agar production days.

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Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

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I'm starting ambitiously with 2 pounds. I just feel somehow good enough about this to splash out a bit. It all sounds right, somehow.

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dontman

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2 pounds is a good amount to do, not too much, not too little. Except when you are done and realize that you only have 2 lbs for all that work.

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Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

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I'm doing the steeping stage right now. Trying to calibrate the oven temp with water in the dish gave me a ball park figure for the real process....I had to set the oven at 220 to get a grain bed temp of 165!

Information like that sure tells me where my process has been going wrong in the past. I mean, I knew that you can't trust your oven settings, but Jebus! Them thar settings are WAY off.

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Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

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Just finished the 3 hour wet bake. The grains are already looking far superior in colour to the steeping techniques I had tried before!!!

I'm getting more than a little excited about the final outcome!

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