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Still just doing extracts and plan to continue that until we get our own place.
I'm pretty much ruining our stove in our apartment and I'm only doing partial boils. The lack of room to let heat escape destroyed the catch pan(no big deal) and started turning the white paint coating brown around the pan edge from the heat(big deal). Would love to get brewing off there and do full boils. We live on the 3rd floor so unfortunately don't have an option for a garage. So electric is my only option unless I brew at a friends place which would be a pain.
If I go the heat stick route has anyone mounted one "permanently" in a brew kettle? I have access to excellent welding resources(few friends with 30-40 years experience who weld SS/Alum daily) who could probably weld in a holder/bung/whatever you want to call it. Only one GFI socket(120v) I know of which the stove is plugged into and I could use to run a heat stick or maybe 2(haven't looked to see how many amps, would guess it's reasonably high if the stove is using it). Could 1 heat stick off of a 120v even bring it to a boil?
So ???
I'm pretty much ruining our stove in our apartment and I'm only doing partial boils. The lack of room to let heat escape destroyed the catch pan(no big deal) and started turning the white paint coating brown around the pan edge from the heat(big deal). Would love to get brewing off there and do full boils. We live on the 3rd floor so unfortunately don't have an option for a garage. So electric is my only option unless I brew at a friends place which would be a pain.
If I go the heat stick route has anyone mounted one "permanently" in a brew kettle? I have access to excellent welding resources(few friends with 30-40 years experience who weld SS/Alum daily) who could probably weld in a holder/bung/whatever you want to call it. Only one GFI socket(120v) I know of which the stove is plugged into and I could use to run a heat stick or maybe 2(haven't looked to see how many amps, would guess it's reasonably high if the stove is using it). Could 1 heat stick off of a 120v even bring it to a boil?
So ???