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It's your money. Do what you want. But $130 for a 5.5kw element, a box, and a power cord is not a good deal.

Maybe a steam table element: all stainless, includes mounting hardware and electrical box, about $60 on ebay 4-7 kw @ 208v. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Electric-Water-Immersion-Heating-Element-Stainless-Steel-5-000W-208V-Steam-Table-/181463987416?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4018b4d8 Or...

Here is how its done. You need two 120V circuits on opposite sides of your 240v center tapped supply. 15A @ 240V = 3.6kw 20A @ 240V = 4.8kw Use wire to suit your breakers. 14 = 15A, 12 = 20A Code doesn't apply to anything past the receptacle. After that point its up to the end user.

I haven't yet but that sounds like a good idea. My batch is about done fermenting. I think the way to do it would be to weigh the starting rice and the residue (after drying at 100 C). Then conversion would be (residue/rice)*100%. Will not be perfect since there will be some suspended...

The chinese make this type of wine from: link Of course taste is a subjective matter.

Not hitting the rice wine yet.. its not finished. 9.5 cups of short grain rice weighs about 2 kg (4.4 lb). I used Calrose which is a short grain type. bulk density: short grain polished rice 900 kg/m^3 = 900 g/L Calculation: 9.5 cup ~= 2.25 liters 2.25 L * 900 g/L = 2025 g =...

My current batch used 2 kg (~ 9.5 cups) of dry rice and fit into half of a 2.5 gallon jar. So (9.5 cups/5 quarts) * 3.5 quarts ~= 6.5 cups of dry rice.

One week and three week pics. Its largely liquefied from the conversion of the starch but is still fermenting vigorously. I don't think it will be finished at the four week mark. Grains of rice are cycling up and down from the floating cap to the bottom.

Rice cooker "cups" are 180 ml of dry rice. They are approximately equal to 3/4 of a US cup. So a "10 cup" rice cooker can cook up to 10*.75 = 7.5 US cups of dry rice. If the cooker is just for brewing purposes a steamer works better and is typically cheaper.

Sake implies the Japanese version of rice wine. It uses selected types of Aspergillus cultured on rice to convert the gelatinized rice starch into glucose. "koji" is the Japanese term for their version of this mold. The Chinese are more varied in their use of mold to produce alcohol from...

Chinese yeast balls (qū) can be various mixtures of molds and yeast but the most common is Aspergillus oryzae and yeast. Less common are Rhizopus oryzae and Monascus purpureus. Here are some some links to help you id your mold. Aspergillus oryzae (yellow japanese type) Life...

Hard to say where you are going wrong but mold infection by day three indicates a large amount of contamination. Probable sources could be your self, your equipment, the yeast balls and air born spores landing on your rice while it is cooling. Remember that mold spores from any source float in...

When i used Chinese yeast balls for my current batch I crushed the balls in their (two ball) packet with a mallet and then soaked the packet in starsan. The idea was to sanitize everything except the packet contents. No sign of infection so far.

For those wanting to know how the "Angel Rice Leaven" product works here is their information on their Chinese site. Link Google translate yields a workable set of instructions. ie. the Angel Liqueur Song is an improvement containing powdered concentrated music genres of the Earth Folk Song...

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Free offer is now down to 12 packets. PM me if you want some "Angel Rice Leaven".

One week pic. Liquid is up to the floating rice cap; about an inch from the surface. The rice cap has some koji "frosting" on it. Link to starting post

For those who want to steam their rice. Bamboo steamer dry rice capacity per two tray set. Walmart sometimes has 10 inch sets; for larger sizes head over to amazon or wokshop. 10 inch diameter = 1 kg = 5 cups 12 inch diameter = 1.5 kg = 7.5 cups 14 inch diameter = 2 kg = 10 cups...

For those who want to contact my source: http://stlouissupermarket.com/contact_us This place is owned by first generation Chinese immigrants so be prepared for broken English. 18 packets left on the Angel Rice Leaven giveaway. edit: now 16 left edit 2: 14 left

Olive Supermarket 8041 Olive Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63130