Also, your pump should keep prime until the head is empty, so you’ll only have losses in tubing after the pump. Or you could get a peristaltic pump and have no losses
I have two plate chillers back to back and was considering forcing out the last of the wort with oxygen. The same oxygen I use with an inline stone mounted in a tri-clamp, but then connected to the hose that came from the kettle to force all possible wort out of the system. At least it would be sanitary as opposed to using compressed air. I’ll try it this weekend.
I’m also brewing extra to compensate, and it’s about 1/4 gallon lost in my case.
I thought it would be in a siphon state going through either the CFC or the plate chiller, no? I was thinking of going to a plate chiller with immersion chiller in the fermenter to get the final temperature drop, but I hate to have to calculate that kind of loss - how much wort does the Blichmann plate chiller lose?
I’ve been chasing with compressed air for years. I know it should be unsanitary, but I haven’t tasted the effects of infection (yet!). I should use a better method.