Use of Campden tablet in a kit (as opposed to using in mash water)

[kimosabby]

Gents,

just a quick one on the use of Campden tablets. I usually add a quarter to the mash water at the start of heating and quarter to the sparge water at the beginning of heating when doing an all grain. I thought I would rough it with a kit today (Magrove Jacks Simcoe single hop). Following a kit there is obviously no heating of water except the 3 litres boiling to mix the malt extract. How do you desolve the tablet with a kit liek this?

Thanks

Kimosabby

 

[RGeats]

I use my bottling bucket, put 23 litres of tap water in it, then dissolve the Campden tablet in this water, leave 5 mins, then use this water to fill the kettle. I then use the rest of the water for topping up the fermenter, using the tap on the bottling bucket to help aerate the wort.

 

[strange-steve]

Just crush it and stir it in, it doesn't need hot water to dissolve. Otherwise you could crush it into a cup with a little water in it, stir till it's dissolved then add that to the wort.

 

[kimosabby]

cheers for that gents; Steve - when putting in a cup of water I presume just use cold/tepid?

 

[strange-steve]

cheers for that gents; Steve - when putting in a cup of water I presume just use cold/tepid?

Yeah it's very soluble, even in cold water