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Wide temperature swing with electric sterilizer
    #26817437 - 07/11/20 01:55 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

So after using a few different antique pressure cookers (late 50's early 60's) I decided to pull the trigger on the smaller All American sterilizer. I'm actually in the middle of my first run now. I'm noticing that if you just set the control dial on say 7, you get a pretty significant temp drop between the element kicking off and kicking back on. Roughly 4 psi on the gauge. I'm already leery of trusting the gauge, because on the old units I upgraded to jiggler weights the new gauges I bought were all off at least 1 PSI (and these are OEM gauges). So that, coupled with the swing between cycles, has me worried that my grains are either getting overcooked or dropping out of the sterilization range.


I've built a bulk pasteurizer out of a broken chest freezer, and the temperature in my old grow room was controlled by a temp control unit wired to a window unit and oil radiator. For the bulk unit I put in a temp difference of something like 4° so that it wasn't constantly on and off, same with the temp control in the grow room. Is there any way to modify this electric sterilizer to have a smaller window as well? Or do I just set it so the gauge spends most of it's time around 17-18 PSI and trust that the gauge is close enough that the internal temp of the jars will stay roughly where I need it?


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