Advice Please - Boiler - A converted FV or BFO Pan?

[Bakernat]

Advice from the brewing demi-Gods please.........

I am looking at moving to AG brewing and I have been looking at building a boiler from a converted FV (kettle elements etc). Randomly wandering around town I saw one of those single plate electric cooker hob element things going for a song. Whilst racking my brain trying to think of a way to encorprate it into an FV I was studdenly struck with the obvious solution of just getting a BFO (Big F**k Off) stainless steel pan and boiling that way.

Surely this has to be easier to controll and conciderably easier to clean up afterwards. Am I missing something here?

:wha:

 

[keith1664]

I think you'll find a lot of us use the BFOSP (Big F Off Shiny Pan), all manner of heating methods are used from BFOGB (BFO Gas Burners) to kettle elements to immersion or water heater elements, I even saw someone recently mention an induction heating thingy.

Anyway the best place to source your BFOSP is here
http://shop.ebay.fr/catering-service-fr/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
Send them an email saying what you'd like and they'll sell it to you off ebay for less (I've been helping someone build a shiny brewery and I think their 2 70L pots and 50L thermos came to £156 delivered)

Welcome to the shiny dark side.

 

[Bakernat]

Cheers Keith. :

I thought that there was some underpinning logic here. Building stuff for fun then realy!

Having woken up this morning 'fresh' from testing a rather cheeky Red it appears that I have already bid on a 50 Litre pan from the same place on thier german ebay site. If I don't win the pot I might try the French site as my German is rubbish!

 

[RokDok]

Hi

I'm the induction heater thingy being/organism

I use induction heaters.

If your brew length is 50 litres or less then you'll get away with a 2 kw induction heater.

Above 2 kw or so the cost rises exponentially unless your are lucky as I was and get the 3 kw buffalo heaters from Nisbetts.

It's more expensive than kettle elements and I appreciate that.

3KW will easily cope with 60 + l at a hard boil

RD