Please help me make some decisions!

[daf]

I'm not comfortable with the combination of very hot sugary liquid and plastic, despite any claims for food safe printed on the bucket or picnic box.

Breweries use stainless steel and copper for a reason....so do chefs!

[Sadfield]

I'm not comfortable with the combination of very hot sugary liquid and plastic, despite any claims for food safe printed on the bucket or picnic box.

Breweries use stainless steel and copper for a reason....so do chefs!

Most probably durability. Most high end chefs quite happily sous vide in plastic.

[daf]

I'm not comfortable with the combination of very hot sugary liquid and plastic, despite any claims for food safe printed on the bucket or picnic box.

Breweries use stainless steel and copper for a reason....so do chefs!

Most probably durability. Most high end chefs quite happily sous vide in plastic.

Low temperatures in sous vide....about 55c, that's lower than mash temps never mind a rolling boil of wort which can be up to 120c.

[Fil]

a simple tap/valve solution is the 15mm compression tank connector @ circa £2.50 from a plumbers merchant,
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Compress ... oCZkbw_wcB
drilling or filling out the pipestop will let you puch 15mm copper tube all the way through for easy addition of compression/solder fittings inside and out for additional hardware the copper kettle online brewshop sell drilled out tank connectors for a small premium if you dont have a 15mm hss drill bit or the patience to spend hours filling . they also sell thicker PP euro buckets suitable for boiler conversion which unlike flimsy FV's wont wobble n spill with the violence of a boil..

for a SS stockpot email the German seller on ebay.fr 'bergland/catering portal' search ebay.fr for "marmite inox" (stockpot Stainless steel) for contact info, email them for an off ebay paypal price (u save they save) circa £50 delivered for a 50l stock pot, Catering-Portal.Bergland@msg.afterbuy.de its a good job that their English is better than my German..

the downside is the hole cutting tools if you cant borrow them will add to the cost, Qmax punches make nice clean holes in SS with minimal fuss/work if close to a brewer who has em a loaner could probably be arranged tho due to the mass return PnP works out about 60% of the cost of a new punch..

[vacant]

any clues on a good tap set up for a BIAB plastic boiler? I figure I can use a second BIAB bag when boiling hops to remove that gunk, to perhaps bypass the need for a filter, but I still don't fancy potentially syphoning the hot wort out if I choose to go no chill!

My 60L plastic boiler has had a plastic "Waddington & Duval" water butt tap for 69 AG brews so far (about 10 BIAB). I had a no-name tap that looked similar but leaked. I rolled a piece of vivarium stainless steel mesh into a tube, crimped one end and stuffed it into the tap as a hop filter.