I don’t understand the change or the controversy. Boil-off volume vs. rate does not matter. The problem is that the “Boil Time” field does not work on the main recipe “design” page, and I ended up with an extra ~gal. of pre-boil volume and my mash target temp wrong. Changing 90 to 60 should have resulted in a reduced pre-boil volume. I have downloaded the latest version, but if the field doesn’t work, it should be grayed out (no?), and some hover-note saying you have to go change the value in the Equipment settings. But why not just fix the field?
So the argument that the change was made so that people wouldn’t have to do that – go into their Equipment settings to make changes – is killing me, because that’s exactly what I have to do now in 2.0. I’m totally missing something. (Not unusual.)
Maybe context will help. I have an electric stove, and with 5gal AG batches I can’t get a rolling boil with ~8gal of wort. If I change the recipe to 60min boil, I can just get that volume rolling. But if I want to do a 3gal batch for 90min, I should just be able to change the recipe page – not my equipment profile – nothing has changed in my equipment. To me it just seems like the one field is “broke” from what worked perfect before.
Also – for posterity – if you do go change your Equipment profile settings, be sure to hit [OK] to properly save the change, but you also have to know to go into your old recipes and re-establish the link to that Equipment profile to receive the updated values. Also-also – if you already have a tab open with a report, you have to close that and re-draw the report to get the updated values. Some people may be tripping up on those points too, as I did.
But – if you do change your Equipment profile – you risk screwing up all your recipes because that new 60min vs. 90 value could propagate to them all and screw up irretrievably all the exacting volumes you worked on.
I’m at a total loss.