Coffee urn for filtering?

[dblact38]

As anyone use a coffee urn for filtering? Any special steps to take when using the urn? I just filter small amounts at a time. Any info in the process will help! Thanks Gary

[eustis22]

I use one. I just make sure to fill it with water and heat it, then drain the water just before I filter my finished syrup into it.

[psparr]

Put a couple inches of water in it. Run it through a brew cycle, dump the water and imediately start to filter into it.
I have a five gallon bucket with the bottom cut out that sits on top of the urn. The cone filter hangs on hooks screwed to the inside of the bucket. I have yet to put L brackets on the urn to secure the bucket a little, but thats my next project.

I set the bucket contraption on top of the urn while it's heating up to moisten the filters.
Then while its filtering, I'm bottling. Keeping an eye on the level of syrup through the sight glass.
When I'm just about done I unplug the urn so I don't scorch any syrup.

[eustis22]

oh the bucket with the hooks is a great idea...and I have BOTH! Thanks again, psparr.....

[wnybassman]

A good tip I can offer is to initially plug the urn using an extension cord so you can move freely around your work space without unplugging it.

[adk1]

I use a coffee urn to fill my jugs. I first heat the syrup on my kitchen stove to 185 degrees. I preheat the coffee urn with hot water, then dump then add my hot syrup and bottle. I never plug it in

[Jonnyp390]

I have had mixed success running mine through the brew cycle with water. Even if I allow mine to go into the warming cycle, unplugging, dumping the water, and then filtering syrup into it, I still get new sugar sand forming when the filtered syrup hits the heating element. A day or two after bottling, my syrup was getting cloudy and forming sand. I now leave the urn unplugged, fill with 190 deg water that I heated on the stove, let sit for a while, then dump and filter. Doing it this way guarantees that nothing inside the urn ever gets above 190, but the syrup still holds enough heat to bottle at least a gallon before dropping below 180.

[adk1]

I filter directly off of the evap

[Sweet Shady Lane]

Hey dblact38, I just started to use one this season and I think it works great, I batch boil about a gallon at a time and filter off my pan right into my urn and the it's in the house plug it in and then put it into jars, I got a 42 cup from Hamilton beach

[dblact38]

Thanks for all the useful information. I'am going to try an urn my next batch