A question about perfect machines

[BobbiLynn]

You can try... I'll just open a window and freeze your FL buttocks. Or have some chili first and lock all the windows and let 'em rip.

Below 72 degrees fahrenheit, I freeze, I want some chili... homemade right?

 

[Golddiggie]

Below 72 degrees fahrenheit, I freeze, I want some chili... homemade right?

It's 21F outside right now... As I mentioned earlier, the lowest it will be, this week, is 4F (at night). Won't get above 34F this week for a daytime high. :rockin:

Of course the chili is home made. What type of heathen do you take me for? Don't answer that. I even grind the meat up myself for it. Soak the beans at least overnight too. No stupid seasoning packs used here (unlike my sister and brother-in-law ).

 

[BobbiLynn]

Of course the chili is home made. What type of heathen do you take me for? Don't answer that. I even grind the meat up myself for it. Soak the beans at least overnight too. No stupid seasoning packs used here (unlike my sister and brother-in-law ).

Seasoning packs piss me off... can you pass me a bowl?

 

[Dan]

Are we talking about chilli. Pass me a bowl too.

 

[BobbiLynn]

I know something went over my head, but I'm not sure what... just gonna eat this bowl of homemade chili and be thankful...

 

[Dan]

I'm sitting here in my home, it's wnter but I keep the temp low cause I like cool. I'm weariing socks, sweatpants and two shirts. Very snugy. Tonight will climb into my bed with a big warm comforter. Nice

 

[Golddiggie]

How cold can it be out in CA?? Seriously...

I don't have that much chili left from the previous batch. It is on my list of things to make though. I made turkey soup on Saturday from the xmas bird carcass. Next up is another batch of pasta sauce. Need to get that made this week too. IF I have the room in my freezer, I'll make a batch of chili too. Just need to be sure I can get the 4-5 kinds of hot peppers I use. At least 4-5 habanero's are used in the batch. A couple of jalapeno's, serrano peppers, and whatever else looks good. Few onions too. Both the sauce and chili have to be made in my 16 qt stainless pot. Everything else is too F'ing small. Eventually, I'm sure I'll be making batches too big for that too.

 

[BobbiLynn]

How cold can it be out in CA?? Seriously...

I don't have that much chili left from the previous batch. It is on my list of things to make though. I made turkey soup on Saturday from the xmas bird carcass. Next up is another batch of pasta sauce. Need to get that made this week too. IF I have the room in my freezer, I'll make a batch of chili too. Just need to be sure I can get the 4-5 kinds of hot peppers I use. At least 4-5 habanero's are used in the batch. A couple of jalapeno's, serrano peppers, and whatever else looks good. Few onions too. Both the sauce and chili have to be made in my 16 qt stainless pot. Everything else is too F'ing small. Eventually, I'm sure I'll be making batches too big for that too.

I'm going to send you some peppers as soon as they start making again. Fungus got to them last season and I was unable to correct it, due to rain washing away my corrections. Had some great habaneros, jalapenos, bells, I could go on and on. **** fungus and their ruining effects.

 

[Golddiggie]

Let me know when you have some to send up... Not sure if I'll still be in NH, or if I'll be in Maine by then. :rockin: Send them up and I'll send down some of what I use them in.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Dang, this conversation is getting to be too normal....

 

[Dan]

Somebody say threesome? No sword fighting though.

 

[BobbiLynn]

So, I was walking along and then I fell down, tripped over the lettuce cutter.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Somebody say threesome? No sword fighting though.

I may have mentioned that... sorry though.... sword fighting is a given.

 

[Dan]

I take up arms with no man. That includes swords BL

 

[BobbiLynn]

I take up arms with no man. That includes swords BL

That's fine, show up for the fight unarmed... we'll just see what happens... could possibly be a good thing...

 

[BobbiLynn]

This morning I see now just how much I was mixing up the terms. So something to extract the sweet goodness out of the grain.... Crushing the grain is something entirely different, I see. Gonna try to get that rigged up better today. Might be a little more complicated than what I got thrown together now. I got a big cooler and some tubing and some stainless steel metal pieces(not even gonna try to name them)..... It seems like it'll work, but, hey, won't hurt to look up how others built theirs....

 

[Golddiggie]

Somebody say threesome? No sword fighting though.

So, I was walking along and then I fell down, tripped over the lettuce cutter.

That's just too funny.

I may have mentioned that... sorry though.... sword fighting is a given.

No comment...

I take up arms with no man. That includes swords BL

That's fine, show up for the fight unarmed... we'll just see what happens... could possibly be a good thing...

BTW, I never fight fair.

 

[BobbiLynn]

This is the MLT I'm putting together. What does yours look like?

I am rethinking mine and it's starting to look more like yours now. Thanks for the pics.

 

[Golddiggie]

I am rethinking mine and it's starting to look more like yours now. Thanks for the pics.

You can use one of these in a round cooler with great success. I built a 10 gallon RubberMaid cooler mash tun with one. Just install a 1/2" ball valve through the cooler wall (use the hole the spigot uses originally) and a couple of fittings to go to a 1/2" barb. Then use a short piece of silicone tubing (1/2" ID) to run from the internal barb to the fitting. You can push the ends of the fitting so that they lay flat on the cooler bottom (so turn them 90 degrees at the brass fitting side) while keeping the outlet of the fitting in line with the barb. IMO/IME, a LOT easier than trying to fabricate some convoluted manifold that will take you far longer (and probably not give you any better results).

Inside the cooler will look very similar to this, just with the T screen instead of the straight one.

 

[BobbiLynn]

So how is a squirrel grinder gonna be a mash tun?

Sorry, I was just mixed up on the terms, I meant to crush the grain, I didn't think the mash tun part was that important, as long as I got it filtered and sparged(I think those are the right words), but rethinking that today and trying to get set up and ready.

 

[Golddiggie]

Sorry, I was just mixed up on the terms, I meant to crush the grain, I didn't think the mash tun part was that important, as long as I got it filtered and sparged(I think those are the right words), but rethinking that today and trying to get set up and ready.

It's important if you don't want to be fighting stuck sparges from the start. The manifold/element in the bottom of the mash tun keeps the grain from going through so you only extract the wort. Having too large of an opening (either holes or slits) will cause grain to get stuck and give you no end of grief. Or just use a grain bag and do a modified BIAB in the cooler. I would just install at least a 1/2" ball valve in the cooler before you get started that way.

 

[BobbiLynn]

You can use one of these in a round cooler with great success. I built a 10 gallon RubberMaid cooler mash tun with one. Just install a 1/2" ball valve through the cooler wall (use the hole the spigot uses originally) and a couple of fittings to go to a 1/2" barb. Then use a short piece of silicone tubing (1/2" ID) to run from the internal barb to the fitting. You can push the ends of the fitting so that they lay flat on the cooler bottom (so turn them 90 degrees at the brass fitting side) while keeping the outlet of the fitting in line with the barb. IMO/IME, a LOT easier than trying to fabricate some convoluted manifold that will take you far longer (and probably not give you any better results).

Inside the cooler will look very similar to this, just with the T screen instead of the straight one.

Okay, yes, I watched a video earlier and it was very similar to that. Thanks!!!

 

[BobbiLynn]

Or just use a grain bag and do a modified BIAB in the cooler. I would just install at least a 1/2" ball valve in the cooler before you get started that way.

Okay, I may try that method... Should have thought this through better before ordering the AG kits, but, hey, I'll make it work!!!

 

[BobbiLynn]

It's already coming together and I think this will be the perfect machine for the job... not going show pics through, til I get my kits and see if it works. Because if it works... then you can't laugh at it.

 

[Golddiggie]

It's already coming together and I think this will be the perfect machine for the job... not going show pics through, til I get my kits and see if it works. Because if it works... then you can't laugh at it.

Says who??

 

[BobbiLynn]

Says who??

Alright, yeah, you can laugh, but you won't be able to tell me that it'll never work!

 

[Golddiggie]

Alright, yeah, you can laugh, but you won't be able to tell me that it'll never work!

We shall see about that... I'll hold off until you've built it and post pictures... Just leave your squirrel squisher to processing squirrel meat...

 

[BobbiLynn]

We shall see about that... I'll hold off until you've built it and post pictures... Just leave your squirrel squisher to processing squirrel meat...

Yes, hold off... this set up I'm planning might work... we'll see and thanks for the vote of confidence.

Oh, you mean go buy a new one when I already got one? I'm getting it cleaned up, got it taken apart now, dunking it in the hydrogenator, that'll clean it up nice. I must say though, residual squirrel is pretty gross.

 

[Golddiggie]

Yes, hold off... this set up I'm planning might work... we'll see and thanks for the vote of confidence.

Oh, you mean go buy a new one when I already got one? I'm getting it cleaned up, got it taken apart now, dunking it in the hydrogenator, that'll clean it up nice. I must say though, residual squirrel is pretty gross.

And you were just planning to toss the grain right into it, weren't you...

What do you have for a hopper for the squisher?? You need a way to feed the grain to it.

 

[BobbiLynn]

And you were just planning to toss the grain right into it, weren't you...

What do you have for a hopper for the squisher?? You need a way to feed the grain to it.

No, I was going to clean it up first...

I have something rigged up for that, grabbed some stuff out of the recycle bin, took a little saw to it and I think I got that part figured out. Super glue is my friend. I'm not sure if I know what you are talking about, but I think I do.