One thing to be aware of: nichrome wire heats up. Solder melts with heat. So if you solder them together, and your nichrome wire gets hot enough, they will not stay attached. Hence commercial devices use a mechanical, crimp connection.
Probably not an issue for oven or cooking temperatures, but it is if you're working on hotter things like heaters or hairdryers and such.
Your standard electronics solder is not going to stick to nichrome anyway. You have to seek out special brazing materials and difficult fluxes to even get that far.
This article tries to use large solder blobs to mechanically trap the nichrome wire, which I don't recommend for the reasons above. You really should use a crimp connection.
Correct. Typical electrical solder won't stick to nichrome, and encapsulating the wire in a blob of solder sounds short term at best. If it's not a good connection, it will heat up and eventually melt the joint.
> Probably not an issue for oven or cooking temperatures
Just looked it up and it appears that most soft solder(what we commonly think of as solder) melts around 400F (200C). so I would worry about a soldered joint in the hot part of an oven as well.
The description in the comment Im replying to - reminded me of the replaceable element in electric jugs, which where common during 1970s. The nichrome wire was meant to be replaceable , so had a mechanical connection , not soldered.
Here is a good picture of what I have attempted to describe .... https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-130368
Plenty of non-metal materials melt with heat, too. Solder is the only one relevant to the comment, which is presumably why it was the only one mentioned.
The article seems to recommend wrapping several coils of nichrome around the wire supplying electricity, and just globbing a load of tin solder on. Not ideal, I'd say.
Probably not an issue for oven or cooking temperatures, but it is if you're working on hotter things like heaters or hairdryers and such.