Since my last post I have moved to BIAB and changed things around a bit. I have a bazooka screen built into my boil kettle, I use a hop bag to keep my hop pellets in check. I have a propane burner that sits high enough to where I can open the ball valve and let the wort just run into the fermenting bucket. The bazooka screen catches most of the crud in the boil kettle, but since I am using a hop bag and BIAB there is not much in there to catch. I use the pour into the bucket as a way to aerate the wort, so I think that is ok too. Once it hits the fermenting bucket, it is usually at pitching temp, so in goes the yeast and a quick stir or agitation of the bucket and off we go. Not sure if this is the right thing to do, but that is what I have found works for me. RR