Electric Stove straddle

[Incongruent]

Does anyone else do this? My pot has raised 1" diameter so the center of pot doesn't make contact with element. So edges touching both burners is better right?

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[IslandLizard]

It looks like I have that same stove, with the large triple element on the right.

What are you after? Boiling wort?

Why not put your pot on that large element? When straddling 2 burners like this, you aren't using 80-90% of the surface where the heat is generated.

 

[day_trippr]

That looks like a good way to crack the top.
Use the largest burner and put the pot squarely on top of it...

Cheers!

 

[Hammy71]

I have the standard electric stove. By straddling two burners (many moons ago when I did extract/partial mash), all I did was melt the damn paint on the stove. Wife still *******....(well, not only about that. LOL)

 

[IslandLizard]

That looks like a good way to crack the top.
Use the largest burner and put the pot squarely on top of it...

Cheers!

If the sheer weight of 7 gallons of wort in an 8 gallon pot wasn't enough to scare me, the possibility of cracking the glass top from point pressure due to a stray grain of sand or a burr on the kettle's bottom convinced me to look for a better solution.

Besides, it was hard to retain a good boil, even with the lid half on, as the element kept cycling off and on because of an internal thermostat. After 4 brews like that I moved to a 3500W induction plate on the counter.

Aside from daily cooking, I still use the stove for boiling down smaller amounts of extra runnings, caramelizing wort, making sugar syrups, toasting oatmeal, etc.

 

[Incongruent]

That looks like a good way to crack the top.
Use the largest burner and put the pot squarely on top of it...

Cheers!

The pot is wider than the largest element by a half inch in diameter, and the bottom of the pot is raised so that only the 1" outer diameter of the pot makes contact with the element.... So what I actually do is offset the pot to the left side so the entire half is on the burner, then switch sides every few mins. This was the only way to get a good rolling boil going.

 

[day_trippr]

It's not the weight I'd be all that concerned about.
Glass top ranges are notorious for cracking if you don't actually soak up the heat with a pan/pot/trivet/whatever.
I hate the damned things and if I was stuck with electric I'd go with a coil top.

Check out "heat stick". It may help avoid Spousal Wrath...

Cheers!

 

[TexasWine]

The pot is wider than the largest element by a half inch in diameter, and the bottom of the pot is raised so that only the 1" outer diameter of the pot makes contact with the element.... So what I actually do is offset the pot to the left side so the entire half is on the burner, then switch sides every few mins. This was the only way to get a good rolling boil going.

If that's the case, get a new pot or buy a Hot Rod from BrewHardware.

 

[Brownalemikie]

I've never heard of a pot like that....I'd sure like to see a picture of the bottom of the pot.