I have no clue what that means.

you boil wort to make beer. If you put the yeast into boiling wort, it dies. In fact, you have to lower it to below 80F before you add the yeast. That step from 212F to 80F used to take an hour.

yesterday, it took 3 minutes.

I used this thing.

I feel like I'm in Chemistry class! This is neat!

besides saving time, between 120F and 200F, off-tastes are developed, so you want your wort cold ASAP.

I used the "hot water" for clean up, so that wasn't wasted either.

Wow!!!

the Thrumometer. I was flowing wort as fast as the pump could go.

the beer. Lots of floating crap.

despite the excitement, brewcat was unimpressed.

Awww...look at him...so cute!

in case it wasn't clear what was going on:

built a counterflow back in the day...it worked nice...but did I really have any problems just waiting longer?...