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Munchauzen


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Bulk Grain Strainer 2
#22030493 - 08/01/15 08:32 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Required materials:
- 5 Gallon bucket - window screen - shoelace or small rope - small sturby object, e.g. screwdriver, butter knife
Drape your window screen over your 5 gallon that has your grains soaking in it. I've got some lovely whole oats here.

smooth out the screen until its relatively flat

tie a simple knot in your shoelace that will form a loop close to the size of the diameter of your bucket.

slip it over the screen and the lip of the bucket

feed your random object through the shoelace

give it a few twists until its nice and tight

drain your grains! I've saving my water to make some agar plates and hydrate some coir. just make sure your object is twisted tight! never rely on what you think is a tightly tied knot alone. this tourniquet style fastening will keep it on pretty much no matter what!

Edited by Munchauzen (01/24/17 10:25 PM)
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Darkhome
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Munchauzen


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Re: Grain Strainer [Re: Darkhome]
#22030522 - 08/01/15 08:42 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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it makes rinsing your grains as well as saturating them and saving their grain water very easy!
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Darkhome
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Way easier than what I have been doing (using a hand strainer over each jar)...Instead of doing them one jar at a time, I can do them all. That part about using something to twist the string
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Re: Grain Strainer [Re: Darkhome]
#22030792 - 08/01/15 09:49 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nice thinking there. Very simple and easy to use.
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Re: Grain Strainer [Re: cronicr]
#22031000 - 08/01/15 10:29 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I just drill several 1/8th inch holes in the bottom of a five gallon bucket and set it inside of another un tampered five gallon bucket. When you lift the inner bucket out the water will drain into the outer bucket. Easy peasy.
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Munchauzen


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Ncogneato said: I just drill several 1/8th inch holes in the bottom of a five gallon bucket and set it inside of another un tampered five gallon bucket. When you lift the inner bucket out the water will drain into the outer bucket. Easy peasy.
modifying your 5gallon to add drainage holes limits its uses, though. can't really hydrate subs or soak grains in a bucket that constantly drains. I go by the Alton Brown theory that no tool in our repertoire should have only one use.
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eatyualive
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munch, in this illustration how many quart grain jars worth of grain are you straining? trying to gauge volume. maybe a max out point for how much grain you would want to do in one sitting using this method.
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bodhisatta 
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I'm guessing most people could handle doing that all day if they needed to. Be the judge of your own work ethic. Button farms would hire some guy to do that 8 hours straight with purpose built spawn straining vessels.
I the multiple purpose idea
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Munchauzen


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eatyualive said: munch, in this illustration how many quart grain jars worth of grain are you straining? trying to gauge volume. maybe a max out point for how much grain you would want to do in one sitting using this method.
17. I'd say the bucket was a good 3/4 full too. not much more room left - could be sloppy with a totally full bucket. maybe a max or 20 or so qt jars.
Edited by Munchauzen (08/02/15 09:16 AM)
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taGyo
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Munchauzen said:
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eatyualive said: munch, in this illustration how many quart grain jars worth of grain are you straining? trying to gauge volume. maybe a max out point for how much grain you would want to do in one sitting using this method.
17. I'd say the bucket was a good 3/4 full too. not much more room left - could be sloppy with a totally full bucket.

Think I'll pick up a bunch of those and save my qt jars for weed
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Munchauzen


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Re: Grain Strainer [Re: taGyo]
#22032521 - 08/02/15 09:17 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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taGyo said:
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Munchauzen said:
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eatyualive said: munch, in this illustration how many quart grain jars worth of grain are you straining? trying to gauge volume. maybe a max out point for how much grain you would want to do in one sitting using this method.
17. I'd say the bucket was a good 3/4 full too. not much more room left - could be sloppy with a totally full bucket.

Think I'll pick up a bunch of those and save my qt jars for weed 
only buy the ziploc brand. the knock-offs have shitty threads that make the lids shoot off if you try to shake them at all.
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Munchauzen said:
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taGyo said:
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Munchauzen said:
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eatyualive said: munch, in this illustration how many quart grain jars worth of grain are you straining? trying to gauge volume. maybe a max out point for how much grain you would want to do in one sitting using this method.
17. I'd say the bucket was a good 3/4 full too. not much more room left - could be sloppy with a totally full bucket.

Think I'll pick up a bunch of those and save my qt jars for weed 
only buy the ziploc brand. the knock-offs have shitty threads that make the lids shoot off if you try to shake them at all.
Sounds good. I have a bunch of SFDs I'm going to use as filters. If I have some extra do you want them?
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Now if i could only find a bucket bigger than 5 gallons id really be set!
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Re: Bulk Grain Strainer [Re: kushroom]
#22032558 - 08/02/15 09:32 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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They make a small brute trash can. It's got industrial quality handles. Brewing stores sell large bags for straining grain already
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Munchauzen


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did I mention the screen itself makes it really easy to load grains? no need to worry about spillage, so you can just use your hands and it goes pretty quick
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Munchauzen


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bodhisatta said: They make a small brute trash can. It's got industrial quality handles. Brewing stores sell large bags for straining grain already
looked up some of those. they are a bit cheaper than buying a screen window panel (I found mine on the side of the road as part of a discarded screen door). the only advantage I can see that a flat screen has would be the ability to lay it out flat and put a fan on it to help dry them out (as shown). I've dried them in the sink using a spatula, but I did this fan method last night because it such a large batch and I didn't want to sit there and constantly agitate a full sink of grains. I laid some newspaper down underneath it but I didn't have much. they still came out perfectly dry yet saturated.
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bodhisatta 
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If you're doing oats you can get away with a half assed strain. Boil 30m strain but load and LC long before they would pass the TP test.
Edited by Trusted cuItivator (08/02/15 10:21 AM)
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Darkhome
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 Thanx...oats are next on my list
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Can we rename this: Doo-rag n' Shank tek?
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I spawned some popcorn casings and had double-overlay cause I didn't put enough hydrogen peroxide in my automated aquarium mister. I only got one mushroom so I cut off the head part where the seeds fall from and put it in a jar of LC and sprayed it all over a tin of PF cakes I made with gravel, cardboard, and bisquick in my microwave. I think it will be good cause B+ is so potent. Triggered yet? Only a square would say "a cube is a cube."
No, this does not look right...
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Munchauzen


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trying a new drying method with this today. thanks to BL for the suggestion
20 hydrated quarts
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Munchauzen said:
drain your grains! I've saving my water to make some agar plates and hydrate some coir.
I like your strainer. But how about drilling a bunch of holes in the bucket and calling it good. Using the water for agar or lc's sounds good. Now using it to hydrate coir, well let us know how that works for you. All sorts of molds love sugary water.
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Munchauzen


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Re: Bulk Grain Strainer [Re: tahoe]
#22072410 - 08/10/15 04:09 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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drain your grains! I've saving my water to make some agar plates and hydrate some coir.
I like your strainer. But how about drilling a bunch of holes in the bucket and calling it good. Using the water for agar or lc's sounds good. Now using it to hydrate coir, well let us know how that works for you. All sorts of molds love sugary water.
This is the only bucket I own and I use it for multiple teks. Modifying the 5gallon to add drainage holes limits its uses. can't really hydrate subs or soak grains in a bucket that constantly drains. I go by the Alton Brown theory that no tool in our repertoire should have only one use.
as for hydrating the coir, I've seen quite a few posts in the last year with that suggestion. I believe a user just posted yesterday he was going to try it out. I have yet to try it, and my attempt just got pushed back after losing 50 grain jars to high temps when my AC wasn't running. My twist on the attempt will be that I only add 1 quart of grain water to the mix instead of using all grain water to hydrate.
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I wouldn't hydrate the coir with it.. Definitely keep it for agar and LCs though. Either way go ahead and do it if you want, we'll be watching.
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So how'd that go?
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Munchauzen


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Re: Bulk Grain Strainer [Re: Inocuole]
#24037353 - 01/24/17 09:42 PM (7 years, 5 days ago) |
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Inocuole said: So how'd that go?
the strainer? I still use the same one. I fold the screen over once now, thou. its got a few holes in from my cat, so the doubling keeps anything from falling out. my cat loves to lay on the screen for some reason.
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Munchauzen


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oh you meant hydrating coir with it. i hadnt reread the older posts. i never did it, because i dont like sterilizing coir and thats what i figured it would require.
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This gave me an idea about things having more than 1 use. I was going to consolidate the perlite from my 4 SG's to 3 for testing agar in the future. I used screens for the chambers because I hated vacuuming up perlite.
I think I will make a sieve out of it for dumping the grain into the tub or another tote. Thanks for bumping that.
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