Abstract: An element for an electrically-energized vaporizer for liquid, including a body of electro-conductive material that has one major face defining a liquid inlet and a second major face defining a vapor outlet. The body is both thermally and chemically stable and is permeable by a liquid to be vaporized. The body is electrically energizable to heat and vaporize liquid as it flows from the liquid inlet face to the vapor outlet face. A plurality of blind recesses in the body are open to the vapor outlet face for providing effective escape routes for earliest produced vapor in the body whereby the entrainment of liquid in vapor issuing from the vapor outlet face is reduced.