During my research I have seen everything from well insulated fancy stainless exhaust tubing to plain old 24 gauge galvanized duct piping used to vent steam from the boil kettle.
I would like to do the cheapest yet most effective thing, and certainly dont like the idea of galvanized duct work rusting around my beer, yet stainless is so expensive. HELP.
Also do any of you worry about boiling the kettle over, into the steam tube? should this system be easily taken apart for regular cleaning? I have a forced air natural gas burner system.
Also what about steam condensing inside the tube and running back into the kettle, is this a problem? or should the pipe be angled down and away, rigging something akin to the "spit" valve on a trumpet, to let the condensation drip out?
thanks
I would like to do the cheapest yet most effective thing, and certainly dont like the idea of galvanized duct work rusting around my beer, yet stainless is so expensive. HELP.
Also do any of you worry about boiling the kettle over, into the steam tube? should this system be easily taken apart for regular cleaning? I have a forced air natural gas burner system.
Also what about steam condensing inside the tube and running back into the kettle, is this a problem? or should the pipe be angled down and away, rigging something akin to the "spit" valve on a trumpet, to let the condensation drip out?
thanks
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