I'm sure you can find the right size pan to fit under it. It doesn't take much. I made a double boiler canner out of a 20 qt stock pot and a 12 qt stock pot, I used a 4" long stainless nipple that I got from a brewing supply store, punched holes in both pots. The inner pot hole is as close to the bottom as I could get the nut to turn, the outer stock pot hole is about 1 1/2" from the bottom. I put 3 1" copper caps under the inner pot to keep it off the bottom. I drilled holes in these so it wouldn't steam up and blow. I put nuts and gaskets on the inside and outside of each stock pot on the 4" nipple. it was a pain to get them tight in the small space between the walls, but I finally got em to stop leaking. I used a 1/2" Stainless ball valve- not the best for bottling, but I've used it for 3 years. The draw back to my system is when I fill the boiler half full of water and the syrup gets low, the inner pot starts to float. I need to put a bolt through the back at the top to hold it down, and also put a drain on the boiler pot to empty it. I just turn it upside down.
The stock pots I got were in a 4 piece set, 20, 16, 12 and 8. I took the 16 qt lid, traced the bottom of the 8 qt and cut it out. The 8 qt pot sits about 1 inch into the lid, I cut the bottom out of the 8 qt, I put my cone filters in the top. I got some 1/8" stainless rods and bent them like a "W" . They hang inside the 8qt pot under the cone, so the bottom of the cone is pushed up in the middle. The cone filter fort of looks like a sailor hat. Someone on here is selling them, it increases the filter surface and really works good as far as cone filtering goes. I have about $50 in my double boiler and filter pot.
Good luck!
Last edited by bmbmkr; 12-04-2019 at 07:31 AM.
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