Ok, I'll start by describing where I'm at so far:
Heated water to strike temperature in 3-gallon pot
Added to 3Kg crushed 2-row british malted barley in 5-gallon pot
Began heating up sparge water in 3-gallon pot
Realise suddenly that I've got nowhere to put the wort when I lauter it off in preparation for the sparge.
Panic.
Put sparge water into 5 different household saucepans of all different shapes and sizes (lucky I've got a 7-hob gas cooker!)
Drain the wort into the 3-gallon bucket using a hop bag inside a sive inside a collander.
Add the sparge water into the 5-gallon pot.
Realise there's not enough room for draining the sparge water as it's only a
3-gallon pot and I've got a 5-gallon batch and the sparge is going on inside the 5-gallon pot which is also my boil kettle
Quickly sanitise a 5-gallon fermentation bucket and strain the mash wort into there.
Drain sparge water into 3-gallon pot
Drain 3-gallon pot into fermentation vessel
Realise there's not enough wort
Boil more sparge water
Repeat sparge process
Wonder why the hell I didn't wait until I had a proper mash ton before trying all-grain!
Heated water to strike temperature in 3-gallon pot
Added to 3Kg crushed 2-row british malted barley in 5-gallon pot
Began heating up sparge water in 3-gallon pot
Realise suddenly that I've got nowhere to put the wort when I lauter it off in preparation for the sparge.
Panic.
Put sparge water into 5 different household saucepans of all different shapes and sizes (lucky I've got a 7-hob gas cooker!)
Drain the wort into the 3-gallon bucket using a hop bag inside a sive inside a collander.
Add the sparge water into the 5-gallon pot.
Realise there's not enough room for draining the sparge water as it's only a
3-gallon pot and I've got a 5-gallon batch and the sparge is going on inside the 5-gallon pot which is also my boil kettle
Quickly sanitise a 5-gallon fermentation bucket and strain the mash wort into there.
Drain sparge water into 3-gallon pot
Drain 3-gallon pot into fermentation vessel
Realise there's not enough wort
Boil more sparge water
Repeat sparge process
Wonder why the hell I didn't wait until I had a proper mash ton before trying all-grain!