Yet another trub separation/whirlpool question

Hey all,

I am having trouble when I transfer from my kettle to fermentor with picking up a lot of trub (I know, first person ever!). I normally post on a different forum, but since those people all said "use a hop taco, dummy", I thought I would try my luck over here on good ol' BA.

I recently moved to get my masters degree, and the place I can afford has an electric stove! Fail! Brewing outside is no longer an option, either I added a heating element to my kettle and HLT so I can get a boil. As a result, I have a LWD heating element running parallel to the bottom of my pots about 2 inces from the bottom. So, when I whirlpool, all the trub hits the element and scatters like cockroaches in section 5 housing. Thus, whirlpooling in the kettle is pointless.

I tried the hop taco and spider (still have the cold break in the kettle) to keep the hops (usually pellets) and cold break in the kettle, but everything I try gets clogged, breaks up the cold break, etc. You know the drill.

So, who has an idea for me? I was thinking about just transferring the whole mess in the kettle to a bucket and whirlpooling in the bucket before transferring to the fermentor. The down side to this is sanitizing yet another thing.

Anyone tried this? Have a better idea? Want to threadshit? I am all ears!

To answer a few questions before everyone asks, all-grain, 5 gallon batches, yes I have a ball valve with a dip tube angled to the side-ish, bazooka screens get clogged.