Anyway, cutting to the chase: What is the optimum 'temperature' for the water before ye sling the 'kit' in the bucket, please? Stone cold or steaming? Please feel free to disregard anything below. I need to get this off my chest!
Put simply; I'm trying to do now what I did in a past life. I.e. Brew beer, obviously. Only my memories of decades ago are about as clear as what I drank back then. All I do know is that I never wrecked a brew then and I never had panic attacks as I attempted one.
I've just pitched my (activated) Safale yeast into the wort as the latter stood at 34. My nerve broke. If I'd left the wort sitting there much longer, I'd lose it to infection. So it was shit or bust.
Wort was so bloody hot because automatically cover the element of the Electrim with water and turn it on. I then add the malt to steaming hot water and start topping up with cold once I've stirred and melted the malt.
But I've just realised this will Always lead me to creating five gallons of wort which is well above optimum temp of 20 and me losing my mind with anguish as the yeast foams in its mug and the germs - I imagine - gleefully say, " Here we go again! " and destroy my hopes, long before my Germ Fest of warm wort cools to required.
Only, I filled the used, malty tins with cold water and left them in the sink. Couple of hours later, I've emptied them and they came out clean as whistles. That's when the penny dropped; The damn stuff seems to melt perfectly well in cold water!
If ye still reading then, I can really only repeat my initial question; Could I just pour the malt into 20c water, stir it in and add yeast?
What's the bets this has already cost me my Wherry? I'll get a kit Working, one of these days!
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you sound stressed- it's suposed to be fun this! 
, check the temp (should be below 30oC) and pitch the rehydrated yeast.
you don't need to, just chuck it all in the FV. The Electrtrim will be useful when you move over to extract (where I am now) or if you move to AG (where I'm going in a month or two) 
Hyah, Russ. Yeppers. I was stressed out, mate! Hell, was I. Figured I'd probably just cost myself my second good brew in a row.
Whoops! Aleman; My apologies. The Wherry went off so strongly, last night, that I got carried away and flaked out. Back tonight and never even realised I hadn't thanked ye for ye input there.
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