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[PackerfaninSanDiego]

About a few minutes after I started chilling the wort, I heard a hissing sound. What I did, was burn a pin hole into my water supply hose as it was resting on my brew pot(keggle) near the bottom close to the flame. But why the hissing? My steel burner was off and it was still extremely hot. Never thought about the burner being that hot once I started cooling the wort. I was pouring on garden hose water to cool the burner to where I could touch it. Wrapped the keggle with a towel and tossed water on it too to help cool the wort. What do you guys do after flame out? Take your pot off the burner?

 

[catdaddy66]

I take mine off the burner and place it in the kitchen sink which is filled with cool water. I stir a few minutes, then drain and refill. I'm able to get the wort to about 90-95* in around 30 minutes this way.


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[QuercusMax]

I leave it on the burner, just try to keep my hoses away from it. I have a pinhole leak in my chiller supply hose too, i just wrapped it in some duct tape for now, at some point I'll replace the hoses.

 

[fnord]

I collect most of my cooling water for cleaning and anything extra I let cool then use to water the garden. I put my supply hose and outlet hose in one of the buckets I'm going to use to collect water, and put it on a chair next to my burner so that the hoses aren't hanging free.

 

[david_42]

I always take it off the burner and haul it outside (unless the weather is really bad). The run-off from the chiller goes on the garden.

 

[PackerfaninSanDiego]

Basically what I'm saying is, the metal on the burner is still frickin hot. Take your pot or kettle off the burner while you are cooling your wort

 

[govner1]

About a few minutes after I started chilling the wort, I heard a hissing sound. What I did, was burn a pin hole into my water supply hose as it was resting on my brew pot(keggle) near the bottom close to the flame. But why the hissing? My steel burner was off and it was still extremely hot. Never thought about the burner being that hot once I started cooling the wort. I was pouring on garden hose water to cool the burner to where I could touch it. Wrapped the keggle with a towel and tossed water on it too to help cool the wort. What do you guys do after flame out? Take your pot off the burner?

I leave my BK in place because I recirc through my CFC & whirlpool to chill. My HLT is out of the way since it's on the far end of my stand from the BK.


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[therealtricky]

I use a homemade immersion chiller and my "new" post boil routine just occurred to me during my last brew. I leave the keggle on the burner but take the exhaust hose from my wort chiller and walk around my kettle using the waste water to cool the outside of the kettle at the same time. I brew on my back porch and so the water filters into my garden/yard.. Seemed to take about 5 minutes off of my cooling time..

 

[Teromous]

Basically what I'm saying is, the metal on the burner is still frickin hot. Take your pot or kettle off the burner while you are cooling your wort

I get that you probably want to take the pot off the burner while chilling because it's just adding more heat to the pot.

I prefer to leave mine on the burner because it's the safest thing to do. Five gallons of boiling sticky wort that cost me a ton of money and time is not something I want to move around if I can help it, especially if it's just to cut down on the cooling a tad.

 

[ktblunden]

Another thing to keep in mind is that while the contact points from the burner are hot, the benefit of air movement beneath the kettle vs setting the kettle on the ground is probably beneficial to more rapid cooling. You do want to make sure all the hoses are well clear of the burner though.

 

[day_trippr]

[...]I prefer to leave mine on the burner because it's the safest thing to do.[...]

That's the bottom line right there.

If one can't manage to keep plastic hoses away from hot surfaces, perhaps one should leave the drinking for the post-cleanup activities

Cheers!