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You could also try a Grill Stand for a Microwave, only a couple of £ on eBay or similar. Or try you local 2nd hand shops. A good soak, scrub & clean and it'll be fine.

Or check your local charity type shop for a microwave grill stand (Similar to http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/320176713/microwave_oven_grill_rack/showimage.html)

A 90min mash gives me good conversion (mash efficiencies of ~72-78%, could get 82% with Maxi-BIAB before changing equipment). Stirring the mash at dough-in, 10 mins and then every 30 mins helps too. My eBIAB Keggle is wrapped with 2 layers of Thermowrap & foam sleeping bag mat (remember the...

Stop, Stop, Eject ... Tannins are extracted when temperatures are too high (its a chemical not a physical process). If you're mash/sparge is too hot, then the tannins have already been extracted out of the grain, it doesn't need squeezing for you to do that. Squeeze away to get most out of...

Either tube heater/ceramic bulb type or immersion heaters work fine, as long as you put the STC sensor in the same medium as the heater, i.e. sensor into wort with immersion heater or sensor taped to outside of FV if using air heater. This prevents massive build-up of heat as the mass of...