Part II:Since our water heater is new I am afraid to void the 12yr warranty by adding the mod chip which will allow it kick out 180F water on demand, so I pushed the button to get it up to 140 and proceeded to fill the pot up with 16 gallons of water. With nothing more than some Reflectix the temp held solid at 133.2, not bad.With the burner only cranked a little it took under 10 mins to get the strike up to 156 per my BrewSmith instructions, dumped in the grains and learned my system holds heat pretty well. I Was trying to target 149, held steady at 152.3. Stir, stir and more stirring finally got me down to where I needed to be.Finally it was time to see if GreenMonti's suggestion and fluid dynamics knowledge paid off (the idea being if the basket only had holes on the bottom this would force all the worth through the grain bed and offer better effiecency as opposed to holes also on the side of the basket):Perfect drain. After it drained I then took my spoon and pressed on the bed and was surprised at just how much more wort was forced out. Thinking next time I will add a plastic disk on top and press it down sort of like how they do on an apple cider press.And best of all, no grains made it through the perfed bottom!Took around 15-20 minutes to get to a boil, held it for 90 minutes and then proceeded to go the no chill route into new 20L cubes that I scored from work.All in all, including clean up it took around 5 hours start to finish, not bad for 1,280 oz of pleasure.Learned some things, recalled many things from Palmers book after the fact but happy to report the Polish Eagle Brewery has officially spread its wings and things will only improve!A big thanks to Craig who helped make this all happen.