Ventilation / Steam

[chopps]

Hi All,

Since the attack of the killer slugs in my shed, I'm thinking maybe to move indoors until summer.
Problem is, my kitchen is not well ventilated and has full length doors rather than a window.
The cooker extractor is a good size but my brew kettle is a struggle to fit under with the basket lifted.
I can put the kettle on the floor or raised slightly on a plinth, but then it's not near the extractor.

I got a couple of carbon filters that clip onto a bayonet mount on the motor intakes (my hood vents to the outside by the way). They're 165mm diameter.
One is fitted as it should be on the left side of the motor intact, and one I dissected. I cut the felt off the back and tipped out the carbon pellets.

Next, fitted a length of flexible tube to it.

Then attached to the motor in the hood

And voila!

Not tested yet. What are my chances of success?

 

[Clint]

Love it!

 

[chopps]

Just boiled a big pan of water and it only bloody works! :)
Real test will be 30L at the weekend...

The Chopps Patented Steam Sucker Upper. Remember where you saw it first folks.

 

[Clint]

What exactly is your brew method? You can't use the cooker top coz you have no space..so how will you heat the kettle on the floor?

 

[chopps]

With lots of electrons. It's an electric 30L all in one.
I was planning to stand it on the cooker top but not to heat it with the cooker.
I just needed an indoor space where I can manage the steam, and the kitchen seemed the best idea.
No garage.

 

[PhilBrew]

Real test will be 30L at the weekend...

... won't the real test will be when Mrs Chopps sees what you've done to the cooker hood

Cheers, PhilB

 

[Clint]

Ah... it's a difficult one. Sounds like what you've done should work.

 

[chopps]

Obviously not exactly like this as it's dangerously rickety, but along these lines.

 

[chopps]

@PhilBrew Aha - well.... I shall post a video shortly :)

 

[Clint]

Obviously not exactly like this as it's dangerously rickety, but along these lines.

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Looks safe as houses....

 

[PhilBrew]

I'm not sure if "Heath-Robinson-ness" is a word, but if it is I love that about it

Cheers, PhilB

 

[chopps]

Ta-daaaah. Sorry for the portrait shot video.

 

[JockyBrewer]

Does your cooker hood vent outdoors, or is it just a filter?

 

[Clint]

Does your extraction vent to outside? Daft question I know but some don't...I have the same hood as yours and it vents on its limit through a ducting in the ceiling out through a cowelled tile on my extension roof.

 

[chopps]

Outdoors. It would be very disappointing on Saturday if it was a recirculating extractor.

 

[chopps]

Does your extraction vent to outside? Daft question I know but some don't...I have the same hood as yours and it vents on its limit through a ducting in the ceiling out through a cowelled tile on my extension roof.

Yes, straight through the wall to outside.

 

[Clint]

I'd rig up a supported lid over the kettle using a lid from one of those metal garden Incinerators that has the chimney top...fix it to the pipe.
Put a small table in front of your range for the kettle then have the lid on a rolling frame you can just push over the top.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Ta-daaaah. Sorry for the portrait shot video.

She’ll never know

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I'd rig up a supported lid over the kettle using a lid from one of those metal garden Incinerators that has the chimney top...fix it to the pipe.
Put a small table in front of your range for the kettle then have the lid on a rolling frame you can just push over the top.

Don’t forget the deck chair and a small table for your pint.

 

[chopps]

Well she apparently never goes in to clean it @Hazelwood Brewery, going by the state of it this morning :)