Parallel or Counterflow when heat with chiller

[dye4me]

I am going to run 165F water through my cfc to heat and stabilize my mash next time, I was just wondering if I should run it counterflow as when chilling or run it parallel (hot water and and cold wort enter same side) or if it should be counter flowed as well ( hot water in on opposite side and direction of cold wort out of tun)?

 

[m00ps]

doesnt seem to matter to me. Counterflow should be more efficient in theory, but just for stabilizing temps, I doubt it really matters

 

[Mista_Sparkle]

Counter flow is more efficient.

With small delta t, take everything you can get. How are you controlling temperature?

 

[dye4me]

Previously I used direct fire next time I will use my manually controlled hwt and chiller