dia vs heigth

[jobiewon]

is it better to have a kettle that is taller than wide or wider than tall

[straight cash homey]

taller than wide will heat faster, i guess a kettle exactly the same diameter as the burner, if the burner heated the entire bottom surface, would heat the fastest, but it probably doesnt matter.

[jobiewon]

thank you but I have notices kettles are wider than tall
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[J.Brew]

[mfischer2]

DIA is a decent airport, but Heigthrow is okay too.

[Bugeater]

The big difference between tall/narrow kettles and short/wide kettles is the boil off rate. The more the surface area, the greater the boiloff. My tall narrow turkey fryer kettle boils off 1 gallon/hr while my wider stock pot will boil off 1.5 gallon/hr.

If you are batch sparging, the increased boil off can be a good thing. This forces you to sparge just a bit more to make up the volume. That, in turn, rinses a little more sugar out of your grain which increases your mash efficiency.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

[katzke]

Come on now. It is not hight verses diameter. It is length verses thickness.

[BDawg]

Yeah, not how deep it goes, it's definitely how much it scrapes the sides.