Does anyone Boil a full 5 gallon batch on the stovetop?

[Cliff]

I do. Ya need a stove with plenty of grunt.
Get a Wolfe Dual Burner range top.

[walt3120]

Weight sitting on cooktop - the top is tested to withstand a load more than 50 lbs. So there would be no problem with taking a turkey, in a roaster, out of the oven & placing it on the cooktop. Also, no problem with using a canner on the cooktop.

"more than" 50 pounds? So you can park a volkswagen on it? May be better use to 50 pounds as the limit?


7 gallons of water weighs about 7*8.34lbs~58 lbs. My 8 gallon SS pot weighs (IIRC) 17 lbs, so at a total of 75 pounds you will be quite a pushing their "more than" 50 lbs guestimate.

my antique gas stove creaks a little when I'm moving that full load around when trying to get situated so I can use two burners at once, but so far it hasn't collapsed.

[Omahawk]

I do full boils with my 8 gallon SS on my GE glass cooktop range, but perhaps this thread is making me reconsider. Never had any problems reaching a rolling boil or breaking glasstop in several batches.

[ColonialFootsoldier]

I switched to all grain about 10 batches ago, but my pot only holds 5 gallons max (little short on money to get a larger one), so I've been doing my boils with about 4 gallons of wort and then diluting it when I put it into the carboy. Luckily with Beersmith I have been able to use the dilution tool to calculate what my gravity should be pre-dilution and I have been hitting all of my numbers fairly accurately. I know it's less than ideal, but I get the boil going fairly quickly and I have been pleased with the beers I have been getting with this method.

[Thomas Fransson]

6+ gallons boiling -
I use a 2800W induction.