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I got this burner for home brewing beer at the recommendation of one of the homebrew forums I read regularly. The box arrived in a little bit rough shape, but everything worked great. Very easy to use, just hook up to a propane tank similar to the way you hook up a gas grill.
It generates a lot of heat! This is a mixed blessing as it gets a good boil going, but I found it a little bit difficult to control the heat (getting it to slow down enough to not over boil).
For my own use, I run it with the lowest amount of air/gas available (lowest flame), but if you are in need of serious heat or doing some serious outdoor cooking this burner does the job!
Pros: Lot of flame, easy to use, easy to setup.
Cons: Little difficult to control the heat as the lowest setting still runs a bit hot.
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This is a great burner for quick heating of 10gallons of water. It heats 10 gallons from around 50F to boiling in around 20 minutes. It does not come with a pot. It eats gas.Best Deals for Bayou Classic KAB4 High Pressure Banjo Cooker
This cooker is really heavy duty. Lots of BTUs enough to boil water in a 20 quart pot in about 8 minutes. This is a special use item that meets and exceeds its purpose.Honest reviews on Bayou Classic KAB4 High Pressure Banjo Cooker
Pros: If you're looking for a very powerful outdoor propane stove, this is absolutely the one to get. With 210,000 BTU's, it has 4X to 8X the output of most other stoves. The 16.5" diameter frame, welded from 3/8" solid steel rods, provides a very strong and stable one-piece support for huge pots. It also makes the frame easy to modify to create a great and powerful outdoor wok stove too, which is what I really wanted but couldn't find anywhere at a reasonable price.Cons: The clearance between the burner and the top of the support frame is about 5 inches. This is an inefficient design that wastes a lot of heat, especially with pots less than 16" in diameter. It would be a much more efficient and versatile design if the clearance was lowered by about 3 inches. Also as designed, the stove cannot be used for outdoor wok cooking since the 5" clearance is way too high and inefficient, especially with heat-dispersing round-bottomed woks which also require a wok ring, thus raising the clearance even higher.
Pot Solution: A very simple 3" cut and re-welding of the vertical rods by anyone who does welding repairs to reduce the clearance will make this a fantastic outdoor stove that's very powerful and efficient.
Pot/Wok Solution: Have a welder cut the 4 inside vertical rods so they are just 2 inches above the burner and cut the outside vertical rods about 1/2" from the top. Weld a 5" horizontal rod to each of the four sets of vertical rods as the new pot support and weld a rod or ring around the top of the four outside vertical rods to create a 16" diameter wok support. This brings the bottom of most round bottom woks to about two and one-half inches from the burner (but still off the horizontal pot support). This modification is perfect for my 22" wok and can easily support woks 18" up to 26" yet still support my Bayou 44-quart stock pot/turkey fryer inside the wok ring.
Fact: This stove can use up a lot of propane quickly. It's simple math. A standard BBQ 20-pound propane tank contains 4.73 gallons equivalent to 433,000 BTU's. That means at the maximum 210,000 BTU/hour output, a full tank will only last about 2 hours. However, if you turn the stove down to the output equivalent to other less powerful stoves, it'll last just as long as those other stoves. However, with this versatile stove, you can dial up the power when you want/need it.
Bottom Line: I did a lot of research and comparisons before deciding on this model. If you want a very powerful outdoor stove or a great outdoor wok stove (with a little modification) for true stir-frying at a reasonable price, this is the one to get.
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