I am a kitchen-brewer doing 5 gls all-grain batches and am frustrated because the kitchen stove is lacking the last bit of power to yield a nice rolling boil. Are there any indoor-alternatives to the stove?
Topic boil-equipment hop-utilization small-space equipment homebrew
Category Mac
One thing I did in my apartment was to get a griddle that would cover 2 burners. Put both burners on high, with the griddle on top. Put the brew kettle on the middle of the griddle. You get somewhere around 1.5 the BTUs of 1 burner (some is lost to waste heat, unless you rig up a proper way to hold that heat in, which I never really investigated).
Electric brewing with heat sticks. Or you can supplement your stove top with a little extra heating capacity using a heat stick.
Start here with this heat stick page
Listen to the April 29th 2010 Electric Brewing episode at Basic Brewing Radio.
I've had the same problem on our small apartment stove, and the best trick I could come up wih was to preheat water in a separate kettle while I'm doing other prep work so I can have hot water on hand rather than try to bring 3 gallons to a boil all at once.
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