Hello

[pk21]

Sorry in advance for my English.
I live in Brittany. I have discovered hay steaming this year and recently made a temperature controlled hay steamer. I'm interested by posts on hay steamers.

 

[ycbm]

Hi, we mostly get posts about cheap and cheerful home made ones versus the Haygain on here. Yours sounds as if it's something between the two.
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[Baywonder]

Hello and welcome!

 

[pk21]

Hi, we mostly get posts about cheap and cheerful home made ones versus the Haygain on here. Yours sounds as if it's something between the two.
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Thanks for your comment.
It's a homemade hay steamer built with a chest freezer, a wallpaper stripper and a removable grid where to put the hay net, like several cheap DIY. Moreover, there are no pipes in the freezer. The steam directly goes out of the hole in the bottom. The main difference is that I've added a thermostat that ensures that, as said by someone in a post, "the temperature is high enough for long enough”. She worried about the lack of heat profiles. I had the same concern before doing my hay steamer. I would like to reply her in sharing a graph which shows the temperature at both the inside of the hay and the lid during the whole hay treatment duration.
Vs Haygain, I do know the heat profile. The treatment automatically ends when the lid temperature is >= 90°C for 35 minutes. A bicolor LED indicates whether the hay has been correctly heated or not before removing the hay net: Green=OK, Red=NOK, blinking Red = treatment on going. If the lid cannot reach 90°C then the treatment will fail. I would say that it's more secured.
Operating mode: fill the wallpaper stripper, put the hay net, power on the thermostat , come back one hour later and check the LED before removing the hay net.
Based on these explanations do you think that I'm not on the right forum?

 

[lods]

Hello and welcome!