gotbags-10
Well-Known Member
How much wort can I boil safely in a 3 gallon pot without spilling over?
With experience and caution you could likely boil 2.5+ gallons. With inexperience, you could have a boil over from hell the likes of which you have never seen! OK, you have been warned.
Every extra minute spent carefully approaching boil equates to about an hour saved cleaning up a boilover.
tips
- reduce heat approaching boil
- stir hot break / foam back into wort as you approach boil. The foam cap acts like a pot lid and can lead to an explosive boilover. With experience you realize what is happening, as a noob, one can focus on the kettle waiting for it to start boiling, then suddenly it explodes all over your stove
- I would reduce or turn off the heat for hop additions until you have some experience. Dumping in a bunch of pellet hops can trigger a boilover.
- some like using a spray bottle, or dropping an ice cube in the pot will calm a boilover, best IME not to go there vs. battle it.
that's weird, may be my water chemistry but i've never had any issues with boilovers as long as I have the lid off when it starts rolling. I do 5gal batches in my 9 (now 10) gal pot
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