Definition of a Boil...

[czarethan]

For now, I boil my wort om am electric oven, and run into a bit of a quandary every time I brew (extract, by the way). All of the recipes that I use say boil the wort at a certain temp (nothing ever above 180 F), but my wort never begins to boil until a much higher temp (210-2210 F). I am still doing partial boil as of yet as well. I am worried about producing unwanted chemicals and the lot, but then I have never read anything the definitively states that I should stick to temperature, and not worry about bubbling wort. Any advice would be great.

 

[The Pol]

Boil at 180F?

Umm, boiling takes place at 212 at sea level. Unless you are boiling at like 60,000 feet, boiling will be 209-212F

The instructions are bad, toss them, boil it, disregard the 180F thing

 

[Yooper]

Generally, you steep grains under 170 degrees, then you remove them and bring the resulting liquid to a boil. Can you post a typical recipe/instruction sheet that you use, to show us what you mean? That would help us give you better advice!

 

[PseudoChef]

You cannot boil something below 100dC/212dF at sea level.

 

[thirdedition]

You cannot boil something below 100dC/212dF at sea level.

You can in a vacuum.

Seriously though czarethan, are you using kits to brew with? If so what kind/ brand? Those directions aren't right that is for sure.

 

[bradsul]

Sounds more like a translation error in the instructions or something.

 

[The Pol]

Portugues to English maybe? Our aircraft manuals were translated, oye!

 

[bradsul]

I know that pain. Our parent company is German and their translated manuals are interesting to say the least.

 

[czarethan]

Wow, maybe I need to go back to school, remedial lit. and some grade school physical science or something. My uneasiness has been allayed, all is well. Mant thanks.

 

[bradsul]

Those comments weren't directed at you my friend. Some instructions are incredibly poorly written and nothing but confusing. No offense intended!