My electric kettle is insulated, that is good, keeps the room nice and cool.. BUT.. cooling the wort down after the boil I am having some difficulty. THE insulation holds in the heat while I am trying to cool. I have a 25 foot 3/8" home made copper coil for a wort chiller.
I thought about doing a "tubing" wrap under the insulation and dumping the heat that way, but it will take 100 feet of tubing to do that. It could be copper or?
NOW, my thoughts are a turbo coil chiller.. a chiller with a mixer blade to "stir" the wort around the coils.. I used my mixing spoon to agitate the wort Saturday and it worked great.. but I kept banging the coils.. so.. no cure for klutz.. so I need a mixer connected to the chill coil and drop it all in, a battery drill to spin the mixer so I can vary the speed, perhaps a Cap on the mixer shaft so it does not boil-turn and aerate the surface of the wort.. The drill can go on and off so it does not sit in the steam while I am sterilizing the coils-mixer blade.
Do you have any Helpful Ideas before I start sticking things together?
I have gathered a 3/8" stainless rod for the mixer shaft about 3 feet long. THE prop can be a pair of flat stainless paddles tig welded on. I need to come up with some kind of immersible bearing or guide that will not throw shavings or "funk" into my kettle, perhaps a stainless collar to hold the shaft and guide in place?
I thought about doing a "tubing" wrap under the insulation and dumping the heat that way, but it will take 100 feet of tubing to do that. It could be copper or?
NOW, my thoughts are a turbo coil chiller.. a chiller with a mixer blade to "stir" the wort around the coils.. I used my mixing spoon to agitate the wort Saturday and it worked great.. but I kept banging the coils.. so.. no cure for klutz.. so I need a mixer connected to the chill coil and drop it all in, a battery drill to spin the mixer so I can vary the speed, perhaps a Cap on the mixer shaft so it does not boil-turn and aerate the surface of the wort.. The drill can go on and off so it does not sit in the steam while I am sterilizing the coils-mixer blade.
Do you have any Helpful Ideas before I start sticking things together?
I have gathered a 3/8" stainless rod for the mixer shaft about 3 feet long. THE prop can be a pair of flat stainless paddles tig welded on. I need to come up with some kind of immersible bearing or guide that will not throw shavings or "funk" into my kettle, perhaps a stainless collar to hold the shaft and guide in place?