Massive pot, garbage stove :(

[reibrew]

So I bought a huge pot (40 quart) but found that my stove isn't able to get more than a few gallons up to any sort of rolling boil.

I'd like to do BIAB batches, possibly smaller batches (finishing around 3 gallons or something) as I don't drink a ton. I've been doing 5 gallon extract batches and I've been topping off with about 5 liters of water. I'd like to do full volume boils.

So would this pot's size and my stoves awfulness, would I be able to do biab batches that finish with around 3 gallons? It's a pretty tall pot, it's not super wide and it doesn't really bridge across two burners.

 

[Yooper]

So I bought a huge pot (40 quart) but found that my stove isn't able to get more than a few gallons up to any sort of rolling boil.

I'd like to do BIAB batches, possibly smaller batches (finishing around 3 gallons or something) as I don't drink a ton. I've been doing 5 gallon extract batches and I've been topping off with about 5 liters of water. I'd like to do full volume boils.

So would this pot's size and my stoves awfulness, would I be able to do biab batches that finish with around 3 gallons? It's a pretty tall pot, it's not super wide and it doesn't really bridge across two burners.

Try boiling water in it on your stove, and see if you can boil 4-5 gallons of water. If you can, you can do it. If not, you'll either need a "heat stick" or a different burner, like a turkey fryer.

 

[Horseballs]

Can it fit over two burners? I put my 40 qt pot over two natural gas burners and can get a good vigorous boil of over 8 gallons of wort.

 

[TopherM]

BIAB in the big pot with as much as you can get to a boil. Put the remainder in a smaller kitchen pot as a sparge. Dunk sparge your BIAB bag into the extra water at 170F following the mash. Add the sparge wort back into the larger pot to get your full volume, mix well, then dump XX gallons of mixed wort back into the kitchen pot, then boil in both pots, adding the calculated % of hops to each pot.

Not ideal, but not too much extra work to pull off larger volumes with the equipment you have.

 

[ectoplasmicfunk]

Look into a Bayou Classic burner for around 50 bucks, it really helps out.