Cast Iron Sink

[msppilot]

Ok, this may be a bit of an odd question, but I am wondering if anyone has a cast iron sink in their brew house (kitchen). We do and I have always been very careful when placing my brew pot in it so I don't cause any scratches. I normally boil and chill outside but using my wort chiller outside in Minnesota this time of year is out of the question. Also, I just acquired a 10 gal pot which of course will take up a lot more room in the sink. I though about getting some type of protective pieces of plastic to put it the sink, but I was wondering if anyone else has run into this and what they have done. Thanks for the info.

 

[Zuljin]

Is it clad in porcelain, like a bathtub? Maybe try a towel. I've used one to protect the bathtub from getting those gray marks from washing metal pots in it.

 

[hnycrk]

They make those hard plastic/rubber sink mats that fit into the bottom of your sink to protect it.

 

[andy6026]

I use a plastic bath matt in my bathtub when cleaning the pot - the kind you use to prevent slipping in the shower. Works well.

 

[flars]

I use a plastic bath matt in my bathtub when cleaning the pot - the kind you use to prevent slipping in the shower. Works well.

I have four of these mats to use in my stainless brewing sink and on the sides. I don't have to worry about scratches, but I never let my glass carboys contact anything that is not cushioned.

 

[Euphist]

I have one, but it's nearly 60 years old, and the finish is no longer worth protecting.

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[unionrdr]

We had to leave one of those old,large double basin cast metal utility sinks at the old house we sold. Bloody thing was such a dense metal that 3-4 of us couldn't hardly move it to bring to the new house. It was a smooth casting too. But a mixture of some very dense metals that made weigh so much as to be unmovable. I don't know how in the world those old timers got it in the basement?...

 

[andy6026]

We had to leave one of those old,large double basin cast metal utility sinks at the old house we sold. Bloody thing was such a dense metal that 3-4 of us couldn't hardly move it to bring to the new house. It was a smooth casting too. But a mixture of some very dense metals that made weigh so much as to be unmovable. I don't know how in the world those old timers got it in the basement?...

lol, some things like that I imagine that they truck it to the vacant lot and then build the house around it.

 

[unionrdr]

HA! That's what I imagined when we tried to move that thing. Or the space aliums used a magnetic beam left over from the pyramid constructions?...

 

[AnOldUR]

. . . I never let my glass carboys contact anything that is not cushioned.

When I saw the title, this was the first thing I thought of. I'd never consider washing a glass carboy in it without some kind of cushion. Stainless sinks are hard, but unlike cast iron, they do have a little spring to them.

Off topic, but this made me think of something I saw over in the Broken Carboy thread; a broken glass carboy sitting on a granite counter top. Have to wonder how many light taps on a hard surface a carboy will take before it starts to develop stress cracks that eventually lead to failure? I always put a thick towel on the counter top before working with glass.