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Yesterday I discovered that, for the second time in four months, I burnt out my heating element.
I usually brew on the stove in the kitchen, and since my stove-top burners aren't very powerful, I usually supplement them with a immersed electric-heating element (1500-2000W) that I place in the kettle while the burners are running below. This has worked very well for me, and I've managed to reach the kind of vigorous boil I could never achieve with burners alone, but I'm beginning to wonder if this is somehow extra-stressful on the heating elements, or did I just luck on two bad ones? For the record, the element is completely immersed, and both times the element did not fail during the brew, but rather didn't work the next time.
I usually brew on the stove in the kitchen, and since my stove-top burners aren't very powerful, I usually supplement them with a immersed electric-heating element (1500-2000W) that I place in the kettle while the burners are running below. This has worked very well for me, and I've managed to reach the kind of vigorous boil I could never achieve with burners alone, but I'm beginning to wonder if this is somehow extra-stressful on the heating elements, or did I just luck on two bad ones? For the record, the element is completely immersed, and both times the element did not fail during the brew, but rather didn't work the next time.