Chiller Question: Ice water w/ aquarium pump or garden spigot?

[Red_Roadster]

I built a ribcage IC today and am planning on using it for the first time tomorrow evening. I have it set up so that I can run the garden hose for the water supply, which moves a lot of water fast. Or, I can use an aquarium pump put in ice water and recirculated, but doesn't move near the volumn of water (not like a trickle, but not near the volumn of the garden hose).

Which one do you suppose would cool the wort fastest?

Very excited to try it out!

THX!

 

[lumpher]

the chilled pump would work the fastest, the garden hose would require no additional eqpt, and no additional work. i use a garden hose at barely more than a trickle. it takes 30 minutes to go from boiling to 75 in the heat of the summer in texas (105 degrees), or 15 minutes to get to 65 in winter (50 degrees). your choice

 

[akryder]

It would depend on the temp of water coming out of your garden hose, but most likely the chilled pump would work the fastest. It's downside would be that it uses a lot of ice. The water out of your hose wouldn't need any ice refills, but if it warms up during the summer, may take longer to cool to pitching temps.

Quite a few people cool initially with their hose water, and once the initial wort temp has dropped significantly, they'll swap to the chilled pump method to cool the rest of the way. So, like Lumpher said, really up to you.