Do you literally mean just grab a sanitized flask, boil up/cool down water, dump the right amount of dme in it, pitch the yeast and go? Ha!
How do you get the DME evenly distributed, i.e., not in clumps?
My process:
- take stashed jar of over-built starter yeast out of fridge to warm up in kitchen.
- rinse E-flask with standard Star San mix and stand up-side-down on small dessert plate to drain with the stir bar to get it wetted as well.
- bring required liters of water to boil on stove in suitable size pot. I usually do 5 liter starters (2/3 for pitching 11 gallons, 1/3 overbuild for stashing) and use an 8 quart pot with a lid.
- measure out DME in a bowl and add a tsp of nutes while water comes to boil.
- put stopper in sink drain, remove boiling pot from stove, set in kitchen sink, stir in 3 drops of Fermcap, then stir in DME and nutes.
- lid pot, turn on cold water, fill to wort level, and chill to pitching temperature with an occasional stir and Thermapen check.
- once wort is chilled, set pot on counter and drain sink, put stir bar in e-flask and set that in the sink.
- pour yeast into e-flask, then pour nearly all of the wort into the e-flask and use the last cup or so to rinse out the mason jar.
- stick foam stopper in e-flask, take down to brewery space and hit starter with a liter or two of O2 through a .5 micron wand
- put e-flask on stir plate.
- clean up kitchen.
- pour a beer
Never any risk to The Spousal Unit's kitchen -the range in particular....
Cheers!