Seeing my recipe, I'm going to need around 7 gallons of water for my mash a d boil, for 7 gallons, would a home stove be ok for my first batch? Or would I be overwhelming it? It's an older frigidaire glass top. Or should i try the burner on my gas grill, or maybe an old charcoal grill I have? There's no gas Turkey fryers around me right now!
In my earlier full volume extract days I was able to boil 6-7 gallons on 2 different, newer glass top stoves, but it was slow, and wouldn't hold a steady boil, even with the lid half way on, it kept cycling on and off.
The sheer weight of the full kettle on that glass top was a bit scary. I always made sure the glass top and kettle bottom were impeccably clean, with no grains of sand or so on it to avoid point pressure. The kettle has a thick 3-ply bottom, so it was 'perfectly flat.' But I was never very comfortable with it.
When I saw the Avantco IC3500 mentioned in a thread here on HBT, it was a no-brainer. It took me about 4 hours to wire in the 240V / 20A receptacle in the kitchen. The cooker sits on the counter pretty much permanently, as it gets used a lot.
Aside from it being a lot cheaper energy source than propane, I can brew any time of day, don't have to schlep all that stuff outside, deal with the mosquitos, or weather. I put a fan in the window opening to drive off steam.
A dryer outlet in a utility room or garage can be used too. You do need a kettle that works on Induction, though, a one time investment. I found a 32 qt kettle on Craigslist I now use for temporarily storing sparge water and also make soup stocks in and what not, when not brewing.