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[packy28]

A friend of mine recently gave me a 24x19x9 stainless steel bagel boiler is there anything that I can use this for while brewing ?

 

[beninan]

making bagels?

 

[earwig]

It might make a nice brew kettle. It's hard to tell without pictures and without knowing how it heats up... propane, natural gas, electric etc. Also, what is the capacity?

 

[fineexampl]

pretty sure you have your new brew kettle. if they're like the boilers i used to use back in the day, they should have a valve at the base?? now the kettle i used to use was about 3.5ft high and about as wide with a huge false bottle to cover the heating element.

we'd need pics to tell for sure.

 

[cvstrat]

By my calculations (assuming his dimensions are inches not feet) that's 17.7 gallons.

If its only 9 inches deep its not really likely suitable for a boil kettle imo. The large surface area to volume ratio would make for some serious boiloff and would make it hard to heat evenly with a basic propane boiler. Its safe to say that if you got the heating element or burner made for that boiler, it could function as a boil kettle, I just don't see it as ideal. Pics might help, it it were 24" deep that would probably be better.

Maybe you could use it as a sanitation bin. Easy to clean and durable. The shallow depth would make it easy to retrieve sanitized items from

 

[CaptChet]

That would make a great maple sap boiler if you cant use it for HB'ing. Lots of surface area for evaporation.

 

[packy28]

yeah, thats what i came up with for a volume. it is only 9 inches deep and it does have a valve at the base of one of the ends. so looks like a sanitation station it might have to be. i also have an older keg one of the ones without the ring on top with the handles cut out (if that makes any sence) should i cut that down for my brew pot or should i leave it whole for possible all grain brewing later on ?

 

[packy28]

Thats not a bad idea either captchet. never even thought of that.