Travis: I have a single burner that plugs right into the wall. I bought it as a part of a meat smoker that I built a la Alton Brown. It should be able to boil up this amount of liquid with no problem, so I should give it a try since it would win me some points with the wife as well.

Chipper Dave: When I was putting up this post, I queried ‘nalgene’ to learn more about the bottle and found information about the dangers of their plastic bottles. To be frank, it scared me a little. I did clean the bottle with OneStep cleanser and sanitized it with an iodophor solution…who knows what effect that had on the bottle.

I am going to have to take a ‘wait and see’ approach since my starter is already doing its thing and I am not going to transfer it to another vessel. If there are off-flavors, I will post them up. I probably will use glass moving forward if I have problems.

One note, I did add a line to shake the wort to aerate it…which I didn’t write last night and I didn’t do last night. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s strike two on this yeast starter.