Is there any 'technical' reason you couldn't use the burner to put a 30 quart pot on it and fry a turkey? From what I've read it has enough BTU's.
1685339
I've done it several times...works great. Also works great with a wok for stir-fry!!
1685340
we dind fry turkey but we put a cast iron dutch oven pot on ours and fried everything from the chicken, to fries and then fish . It is strong and a great investment. hmmm turkey...let me talk to the Mr.
1685341
Nope, no reason. As a matter of fact I have used this to cook a Turkey. Worked great
1685342
As long as the "retainer brackets" adjust to your 30 quart pot then I believe you could use it to fry a turkey because the BTU's are plenty.
1283745
i dont think you will ever get more than 60-75 k btus out of this burner, and that;s if you hook it directly to you gas meter outlet with a 3/4 connection which is what this burner's inlet connection is. getting a bigger meter won't help. you can run an entier house with 2 cntral heaters, a stove, a water heater, and more off of a 250,000 cubic foot meter, and you can run them all at once. keep in ing a standard 40 gallom water heaterdraws about 38,000btus. this burner is defintley bigger than that. i would think it would produce a bout twice that, so 2X38,000+74,000.
1603212
This burner is a "high pressure" type. If you are trying to use on a regular home natural gas system it will not work. If you are using bottled natural gas or have a pump it would work but natural gas has only 3/4 of the energy that propane has and would not put out as many BTU's.
582800
It would be too big for the average burner/stove. I use mine on an outdoor propane burner. Takes a while to heat. Very large pot
1108052
I think you might want something a little wider. But I don't see why it wouldnt work. I put it on four burners to get it to boil as quickly as possible. Holds heat real well though
1330748
I having used it yet but I have used a model much older than this and it works perfectly. I highly doubt you have to have both burners on at the same time. In fact am confident that you don't. Iv cooked on those before and used one at a time and both if needed.
970207
We heat ours twice, 3 times max. While its heated you can fry multiple turkeys, but after it cools, re-heating breaks it down more quickly.
1283746
If there is enough volume of gas it will be up to 325,000 BTU. But in order to get this high of BTU you have to have a meter that has that capability. As it turned out, my gas meter was only able to provide about 250,000 BTU and with the small line I had feeding it there was not enough volume of gas to pull enough air to make a clean flame. So, until I get a larger meter and run at least a 1" gas line I can not use this burner. Good Luck...
904625
Not a good idea. The burner is quite small (5 3/4" diameter). You would risk having your pressure cooker fall off. I'd suggest a larger unit.
1665525
I do not know the exact BTU'S on the fryer but I will tell you this. I have a fishing trip every year usually involving 60 people. We used the fryer this past year for fish, potatoes and deep fried corn. The fryer worked to perfection. The oil temp stayed up and the oil afterwards looked like it did when it came out of the bottle. I would recommend this fryer to anyone and made the cooking time a whole lot easier.
2107795
I have this unit and had the same concern when I read other reviews. For my camping uses, 7000 BTUs is more than sufficient for boiling water and all other cooking purposes at lower altitudes. It would probably not be adequate at altitudes above 1mi. Lower temperature conserves fuel and is less likely to cause accidental burns. Unit cools quickly after use for storage. I'm glad I bought this one.
1709019
you could not control the temp with a fryer. need a regular temp controlled cooker
2169757
I have had no problems with mine so far, and I use a pretty big burner as well. The only issue I have found is that fittings leak (actually it's more of a dribble). It is so minor I rarely even notice it.
610136
I have a high BTU burner on my gas cooktop and it works fine, I would see no difference using it on a campfire.
788463
I belive the center Burner is a searing burner on the 320 not a regular 12,000 btu on the 310. I'm looking at both also.
812196
I am using a gas ball valve for each burner. I believe but am not positive that my house gas service is the same. I can't answer what I'm achieving btu wise but can finish a 31 gallon batch of homebrew in the same time it took to do a 10 gallon batch, and have btus that don't get used.
503970
Rebecca, If you plan on using this kettle to boil wort I would recommend a larger burner element than that found with a normal turkey fryer. On brew day you want to get things done as quickly as possible and heating a wort to 212F can take a bit of energy, and time. I personally use a banjo burner for this purpose, it has well over 100,000 btu. I use smaller 50,000 btu burners for heating mash and sparge water, the output is more appropriate for that purpose. Hope this helps.