Brulosopher
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I'm wondering if anyone has ever used this immersion chiller. It looks like it would be incredibly efficient. Hmm.
I've seen a few other post on this. Most say it's a little hard to stir the wort with this spider web in there.
ArcLight said:>.I think stirring would be a moot point with a chiller of that design?
You would still have hotter wort on top, and colder below.
I would still stir so as to break the strata and mix the upper and lower levels.
dbrewski said:I recently made a new chiller. It's not nearly as convoluted as this one, but I used a guy's idea to have the incoming cold water split into two separate coils, and spreading the coils so that they were concentric.
After testing it, I think the biggest impact you can make on any immersion chiller is going to 1/2"/50 foot length and whirlpooling with a pump. There were people with 1/2"/50 foot just normal coiled IC's getting similar results to what I did, plus they are easier to make and clean. So IMO this and a similar length normal coiled IC would produce similar results if whirlpooled. And the regular design can be whirlpooled manually.
dieden187 said:Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I was wondering if you could essentially use an immersion chiller backwards? I live in an apartment that, unfortunately, doesn't have any faucets that were made within the last 30 years. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have a way of hooking up to the faucet without MAJOR leakage problems. Could I run the hot wort (2.5gal batches) out of the kettle, through a copper coil in a sink full of ice water? It just seems quicker than dropping the kettle itself in an ice bath.
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