Chiller steals the boil

[GunnerMan]

My chiller usually stops the boil for a min or so but I crank the heat before I put i in. I am using a propane turey fryer burner.

You could leave the chiller in the wntire boil but that wort has a fairly high acidity and it will corrode copper(especially in hot conditions), not much but it will. AFAIK copper has no proven health effects but some say humans have a deficiency in copper. I dont know I just dont like the idea of it.

 

[Boondoggie]

You could leave the chiller in the wntire boil but that wort has a fairly high acidity and it will corrode copper(especially in hot conditions), not much but it will. AFAIK copper has no proven health effects but some say humans have a deficiency in copper. I dont know I just dont like the idea of it.

Ever seen what the boil kettle in a commercial brewery is made of?

 

[llazy_llama]

Ever seen what the boil kettle in a commercial brewery is made of?

Oh, oh, is it cheese!?!

hey uh-

i just leave my chiller in a 5g bucket of idophor while we boil.

when the boil is over, the pot goes into a tub of ice water. a few min before that i run cold water thru the chiller so its ice cold. the pot goes in the ice water tub, the cold chiller goes in the pot. i've been chilling 5g batches in about 10min to 65deg. is this a bad way to do it?

It's not a terrible way, since Iodophor is pretty cheap. Mostly it's a time/effort/money saver to just add the chiller to the boil, since the boil is going to sanitize it anyway. If it works for you, by all means go for it. I wouldn't though, it just seems like a waste of Iodophor, time, water, and effort.

Sorry to be a bit dull ... but why are you cooling the wort during a boil?

I must be missing something ...

YeastGardener.

Putting the IC into the boil isn't the same as cooling. It doesn't really start to cool until cold water starts flowing through it. We just put it in there to sanitize, we don't turn it on.

 

[JPicasso]

+1 on putting it in during the last 15 mins. My boil may slow for a bit, but it's less than a minute.

During the boil is when I go find my IC!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I'm a bloody idiot!!! For my IC I use the tap to an outside sink. There is a hot water tap right next to it. Why did I never think of running hot water through it before I stick it in!!??

DOH!!!!

 

[taylornate]

I'm a bloody idiot!!! For my IC I use the tap to an outside sink. There is a hot water tap right next to it. Why did I never think of running hot water through it before I stick it in!!??

DOH!!!!

As per previous discussion, you may make the situation worse if you do this without purging the water from the cooler. Even if the situation is improved, it will be improved further by purging the water.