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Anyone know of a circulator that refrigerates rather than warms?

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    Anyone know of a circulator that refrigerates rather than warms?

    Better yet, an inexpensive refrigerated circulator??

    Found some in the $4,000 price range that I'm not sure would be large enough.

    Kind of a bigger deal to that than just warm. Would be cool to have something like that when cold water defrosting. As the frozen food warms the water up, the circulator keeps it below 3 degrees Celsius. I have a turkey going now.


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    Jerod Broussard Closest I've seen is the circulating coolers used to provide relief for injuries. Uses ice, way cheaper than $4000, might be a place to start, with a lil' mod work.

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      OK. Thanks. Bout to pick up a couple more frozen dudes for next month.

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    I had foot surgery a while back and was fitted with a plastic boot through which ice water circulated. The actual circulator was a cooler (think faux cambro) with a marine grade water pump in it. It'd probably be pretty cheap to rig something like that up.

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      Originally posted by Mbmorgan View Post
      I had foot surgery a while back and was fitted with a plastic boot through which ice water circulated. The actual circulator was a cooler (think faux cambro) with a marine grade water pump in it. It'd probably be pretty cheap to rig something like that up.
      Like this

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        yep ... only back then it looked like more of a DIY gizmo. It was truly a cooler and a marine-grade submersible pump attached to a couple of plastic hose lengths. Filled with ice and water, it was the best thing ever.

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      Jerod Broussard You could rig one up with a couple coolers, one with an aluminium trans cooler or cold plate in the bottom filled with ice and a circulating pump to circulate water from your meat cooler to the cooling plate and back. kind of like a kegarator. http://rapidswholesale.com/aluminum-...te-1-line.html
      Actually sounds like a fun project.
      Last edited by Powersmoke_80; November 20, 2016, 07:04 PM.

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        #6
        There is lab instrument called a cold finger. $$$. There may be something used for chilling aquaria for cheaper?

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          ... or whip up something like the immersion wort cooler that I've been known to use for home brewing:

          You can either circulate ice water through it (in which case it's immersed in the turkey cooler) or you can immerse it into an ice water bath and circulate turkey-cooler water through it (not recommended due to contamination issues inside the copper coils).

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          Last edited by MBMorgan; November 20, 2016, 06:02 PM.

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            #8
            Probably something like this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-4...ilver/21156022 is more practical.

            Or you could get this one: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-3...ooler/35312345 which chills and warms could double as a powered faux cambro.

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              #9
              Get a small chest freezer for a few hundred bucks and plug it into one of these PID controllers - https://smile.amazon.com/Inkbird-Itc...pid+controller

              When it gets too warm the PID will tell it to kick in until it hits your setpoint.

              You can just use an aquarium airpump and a few airstones to act as a circulator.

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                #10
                Thanks guys. I'll keep a look out. I've got an Auber PID. I was actually using that with a waterproof Thermoworks probe to watch my water temp with the PID alarm at 38 degrees.

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