Help me make a purchase

[snevey]

I have a $75 Amazon.com gift card... I'm strictly an extract brewer for NOW. Here is what I have:

1 6 gallon carboy
1 5 gallon carboy
1 7-8 gallon bottling bucket
2 wing cappers
2 bottle fillers
enough food grade tubing
3 gallon brew kettle (2.5 after my rivets leak out all the water above it)
1 1 gallon "carboy"
2 Mr. Beer fermenters (had to start somewhere! :rockin
over 100 12 oz bottle
spoons, airlocks, etc.

Now, i was thinking about getting this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HT4AV2/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

As I don't have a large brew kettle or an outdoor burner. Is a 7.5 gallon a big enough brew kettle for when I go all-grain?

I was thinking about going with a wort-chiller, but I'm nervous about sticking yet another item in my wort, but I guess as I boil 5 gallons, it does take longer to cool that down in an ice bath.

What's the consensus on this?

 

[wood173]

Wort Chiller. Worth every penny and I saw that Midwestsupplies.com has them in stainless steel, to keep the cost down. You put them in the brew pot while it is still boiling, or nearly boiling, and it sanitized the chiller. I brew 5 gallons in a 7.5 gallon pot and it cools down in about 20 minutes or less.

 

[patrck17]

I currently own a 7.5g aluminum pot that came with a similar turkey frier kit that I bought a few years ago. I've brewed countless all grain batches with my pot but it is often close and I have had many boil overs. You cannot get a very strong rolling boil because you risk it going over. I made a fan thing to put over it which helps a lot and is probably the only reason I have not upgraded to a larger pot yet. I am trying to hold out cause I am not sure if I will be building a HERMS setup soon. Anyways I think you are in okay shape buying the fryer. You are going to need the propane burner for full boils anyways and you can get some use out of the pot up through a few all grain batches. At that time if you decided you want something bigger you can do it then.

 

[Arkador]

wort chiller and turkey fryer