Question about late extract additions

Yes, and stir it in thoroughly. It's also a good idea to move the kettle off of the heat source.

Probably.

 

Just remove the pot from the burner, add the extract, stir thoroughly until dissolved, and place the pot back on the burner. It should only take a minute or two, and it will remain hot, so you don't need to worry about the time.

It will only scorch if you add the extract while the pot is still on the burner.

 

Here is a tip.

Turn of the boil and collect a few quarts of hot wort. Carefully.
Add the extract to the pot and let it dissolve. Add that to the kettle and turn on the heat. Don't try to move a full kettle of hot wort. Turn of the heat, sure. But I would not try to move a hot kettle.

DME turns to glue the second it gets anywhere near steam. It does not dissolve easily too, and lumps sometimes scorch before getting dissolved.

Lastly, walk away from that late addition and you will get a boil over.

Cheers

 

Not directly relevant to the question, but dry malt extract (DME) floats while liquid malt extract (LME) sinks. As a result, DME is much less likely to scorch. Instead the problem is that it tends to clump up a bit, so it's nice to have a whisk or something like that to break it up. On the whole DME has a lot of advantages. You can use less than a whole bag at a time (just wrap the remaining DME up in an air-tight bag or it will turn into a brick), it tends not to scorch, and maybe most importantly DME takes a lot longer to go stale than LME.

As I said, not relevant to the question asked, but maybe a consideration for future recipe selection/design.

 

It is pertinent, as the OP is working with both DME and LME.

The kit has 6 lbs of LME (Liquid Malt Extract).....that stuff is thick! If it's been kept in your fridge, pull it out a couple hours before adding to the kettle.......or,
All the LME I've used came packaged in plastic jars with screw-on lids. To help thin it out I put the LME container/s in a pot, then put enough hot water to come just below the bottom of the lid. 20-30 minutes of that helps a lot, even more if you change out the water when it gets tepid.