Hot water Urn for Boil Kettle

[Plug]

Hi,

First I am new to brewing, but I was thinking about and electric kettle, when I saw one of these at work.
http://www.birko.com.au/urn.htm
I can’t see why you couldn’t use one for boiling wort, Am I missing something?

Thanks
Brendan

 

[samc]

You would want to check to make sure it was capable of maintaining a full boil which you are not doing with tea or coffee in an urn.

 

[JuanMoore]

There is an instructable about how to brew beer where the guy uses an urn like you one you show as both a mash-tun and boil kettle. He mashes in the urn with the grains in a bag, drains through a strainer into a bucket, removes the spent grains from the urn, and then returns the wort to the urn for the boil. Seems to work well enough for him.

 

[Orfy]

Lots of brewers in the UK use these.