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   1. Electric Element Opinions (yours)

      by AJ Lenkowski, 13 years ago in Electric BIAB

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      New to forum. I live in New York. Brewed many extract batches, but want to do all grain. I would love to do 10 gallon finished batches, but ......can't really afford to rewire my house so I can plug in a 3500 or 4500W element. (Also, can't imagine moving 10 gallons of wort/beer, and cleaning large equipment w/o a large sink, and i wouldn't be able to take it to buddy's house to brew).
      Long story short: I came across this:
      
      Would this have enough power to get 6-7 gallons of wort boiling? In...

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      I ended up building an all-electric, single-vesseal, BIAB system using two of the following 110V, 1650 Watt heating elements:
      
      They're only about $10 each.
      
      As mentioned above, you'll need to plug each element into a different circuit in your house. Running both at full power is perfect for boiling wort in my 11 gallon kettle. I built a little PID controller to control the elements for mashing.
      
      I got much of my inspiration from the howto in this thread:
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      cmcquistion
      12 years ago
   2. Electric Kettles

      by AJ Lenkowski, 13 years ago in Cleaning and Sanitisation

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      For those that have electric elements in their kettles:
      
      Do you unscrew the element and pull it from the kettle after every brew for cleaning? Intellectually it sounds like that's the way to go (clean clean clean everything always), but I'm wondering if it's overkill?
      
      Thanks,
      
      AJ

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      Mine has a water heater element in it, I just give it a scrub with a scotchbrite pad to remove any grunge while I'm cleaning my pot, and then rinse. No need remove as it's easily accessible.
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      thughes
      13 years ago

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