I have to say I'm absolutely impressed with my plate chiller. I wouldn't go any other way. Not saying a 60' CFC wouldn't work fine, but efficiency isn't going to be linearly proportional to length...
Are you using a shirron or therminator. My concern is, one pass cooling. I live in Texas and the ground water I am sure isn't that cool. Haven't checked it but should
A 25' CFC gets the wort down to within a degree or two of the coolant temp. How much better are you expecting?
I just started using a plate chiller from DudaDiesel and am impressed by how easy it is to use and how compact it is. Cleaning was a breeze with flushing oxyclean through it in both directions from the keggle. Using a false bottom and hop bag kept the debris to a minimum. From what I can tell and have read the Therminator is just a more expensive rebranding of the same device. Having it attached to my stand is one less thing I have to lug around on brew day.
efficiency isn't going to be linearly proportional to length...
This is absolutely true. I had a role of 50 feet and used it all since I had it on hand and didn't anticipate using for anything else... might as well stick it in the CFC. The best thing I did was start recirculating the wort - a practice a lot of us use.
I have a therminator as well and prefer my CFC as far as ease of cleaning and faith that it got clean. Right now my therminator sits gathering dust.
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