How do you aerate for 1 hour (Gerber recipe?)

[pomiataa]

Any ideas?

[Hawke]

Aquarium aerator.

[HookLine]

I just use water from the kitchen tap that has a standard household aerator attachment. Even just pouring the water into the fermenter from a couple of feet should aerate it enough.

[rad14701]

I have switched my method to only aerating once for one minute or twice for one minute about ten to fifteen minutes apart... I have never aerated continually for any extended period of time... Recently I have been using an aluminum arrow shaft inserted into my variable speed drill with the rubber/plastic arrow fletching vanes as paddles due to the small openings in my fermenters...

[blanikdog]

... Even just pouring the water into the fermenter from a couple of feet should aerate it enough.

I do this and find it's adequate. May be an Australian thing.

blanik

[carl1078lewis]

If it's in a fermenter bucket, I stir it with a big beer stirring spoon for less than a minute every 15 minutes for the 1st hour after I pitch the yeast. If it's in a carboy, I pick it up and shake it good (while holding it upright) every 15 minutes same as above. This has gotten my baking yeast off good within a few hours every time so far . . .

[LWTCS]

I use a large kitchen wisk and also bring up to volume by pouring from a couple of feet as blanik mentions.