Bad times! At least it got you down the boozer for a bit. Silver linings and all that. Did you get your bits from eBay then? Sounds like you've touched about as lucky with your kit as I did. Ha ha. If the 304 stainless in these pots has any magnetic properties then they're so slight as to not be not...

Even 1.5mm holes will be way too big to serve the same purpose as a bag. If you're going to have to get a bag then, you'd do we'll to save your money and either buy a pot with much larger holes just to act as a support for the voile bag. Similar to http://www.lalagniappe.com/mall/bc-perforated-baske...

Hello Tim. Watching this with interest as I'm about to follow down a similar route. Have my 70l Bergland pot and was naively hoping I'd be able to boil full length batches on my elec hob, what what with the size of the bleeder spanning two rings! Tried a test boil of just 15l and two things became a...

Ah well. If only to get the first post of 2014 out the way, all the very best to you all.
I'll be bugging you really soon.

Allo all. Short and sweet.
Kit brewer. 70 litre pot for Chrimbo. You can work the rest out. No doubt speak soon. ;-)

Cheers.
GB.