I think it may taint the water a little boiling in that way, used same method but larger scale to load up generators, three earth rods in a drum of water and add salt to adjust the load. The chlorine released also gets rid of any insects flying around. Plus me, I tried to place as much distance as I could between me and the drum. This is the problem with all these ideas, they seem to forget about the dangers from fumes and other stuff it produces, we all know about the electric danger, but what happened to the Teflon coating?
I have worked in places like Algeria and other Expat jobs, and it was very similar to student accommodation, the firm had to ban cup boilers due to number of fires, and items like irons really caused the same problems, cooking bacon on a upturned quartz halon lamp was common, as was mounting the convection heaters upside down to heat sausage roles on.
But turning the pan of water upside down to cook sausage on would not I am sure work, already stated no iron so use pan, so where did the iron come from to cook sausages with?