I've searched a little on the topic, and aside from overly geek-speak posts of voltage, wattage, and a bunch of namby pamby naysayers - I got nothing out of it.
So, aside from all that, I'd like to talk about an electric mash tun and boil kettle. I'd like to do step mashing, easily, indoors. I live in an apartment, and it has electric range that I can't replace. It sucks, but I have to live here for now.
I also don't have the ability to put in 220 circuits either, so that has to be straight out.
How can I mash and boil indoors with an electric system not tied to my range? I've seen the British buckets, but I'm not interested in boiling water in plastic. I'm also AG, so I need to boil ~7 gallons to get my 5.5 recipes into a fermenter.
I saw some pictures of electric fed kettles, some overly complex diagrams, and a lot of "it's bad, you'll scorch."
Is there anyplace you can buy a converted electric keggle? If I had enough diagrams, is it easy enough to get an electrician to build it for me? Can I do this on my standard house power?
Please keep the super geek discussion to a minimum, as I don't understand things like volts/watts or the difference between AC and DC.
So, aside from all that, I'd like to talk about an electric mash tun and boil kettle. I'd like to do step mashing, easily, indoors. I live in an apartment, and it has electric range that I can't replace. It sucks, but I have to live here for now.
I also don't have the ability to put in 220 circuits either, so that has to be straight out.
How can I mash and boil indoors with an electric system not tied to my range? I've seen the British buckets, but I'm not interested in boiling water in plastic. I'm also AG, so I need to boil ~7 gallons to get my 5.5 recipes into a fermenter.
I saw some pictures of electric fed kettles, some overly complex diagrams, and a lot of "it's bad, you'll scorch."
Is there anyplace you can buy a converted electric keggle? If I had enough diagrams, is it easy enough to get an electrician to build it for me? Can I do this on my standard house power?
Please keep the super geek discussion to a minimum, as I don't understand things like volts/watts or the difference between AC and DC.