Kick A Banjo Burner Mod

[RedHawk357Mag]

Was having issue of using way too much propane to melt my wheel weights. This is a mod i performed with the cooker.
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[3006guns]

I like it.........lowers the pot closer to the heat source and adds stability at the same time. Good show and thanks for the tip!

[HeavyMetal]

Nicely thought out particularly the shield over the gas line! Having been planning on "tuning" my turkey fryer set up and you've posted some excellent "changes / ideas" to think about!

[cajun shooter]

Was the regulator a high pressure or low pressure? It appears that you have the large frying burner which is low pressure. I have used and cooked the Louisiana way when nobody else where had Knowledge of Turkey frying. We use a single welding jet with a high pressure regulator that will boil a 100 quart of seasoned water for crawfish in just minutes and not use the amount of propane you speak of. I am not putting down on your set up by no means but I see the mistake made time and time again. The large banjo burners which we took from old hot water heaters at one time are used for frying fish and other types of seafood or cooking a pot of sauce piquante, a jambalaya and many others. The banjo burners deliver their heat very even over a large area and the boiling burners with high pressure do it very fast and concentrated for a very fast heat. I only have to turn my smelting burner on for a few minutes before the lead is melting and ready to pour. Don't misunderstand and take this as your way is wrong posting, it is not. Both ways will reach the same end result. With your setup it will take more time with more propane used and with the other a faster time with less fuel. Just a heads up about the outside cooking burners.

[RedHawk357Mag]

Cajun Shooter, it has a 30PSI pressure regulator. It has a good size burner something like 10 inch cast iron burner element. My mod changes height of cooking surface from 4 and half inches above flame to 1 and half inches. I have used it twice unmodified and used a large amount of propane. It heats even and roars when lit and you can see the heat just roll off of it. I figured lowering the cooking surface would improve the fuel consumption to weight of lead smelted ratio. I thought the burner height and Kansas wind were causing the excessive fuel use. What exactly is the burner element you are suggesting? You wouldn't by chance have a photo? thanks.

[Swede44mag]

With the cost of Propane I would like one that ran off Natural Gas like the house cooking stove.
I have one of the fish fryers I have used for years and you can hear the lit propane roar.
It is getting harder to get Wheel Weights the only ones I got had a lot of steel clips and Zinc.
What a pain to get the zinc out, the steel WW kept floating I thought I didnt have enough heat to start with.

[RedHawk357Mag]

Well used the cooker and it rocks with the lower platform. Cooked some lead really fast with very little propane use. Also shielded cooker from wind which I feel really helped the cooker be more efficient.