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06-17-2010, 11:15 AM
Ok, I bought a turkey frier at a garage sale for $10 so I could start smelting the 500 pounds of range scrape that's been sitting in my garage since March. I got out my 2 quart dutch oven and loaded it about 1/2 way up put it on the frier and lit the flame. One hour later [smilie=1: all I had was a congealed mass in the bottom of the pot. I know that this wasn't getting hot enough although I had the valve on the frier open all the way.
Question #1 I have for all that are better at this than me is, do you put any kind of shield on the bottom of the dutch oven to capture more heat?( my dutch oven is smaller in circumfrance that the heat shield surounding the flame) Do you bend the metal where the burner is so that the flame is closer to the botton of the pot? (my burner is about 8-10 inches away from the bottom of the pot).
I do not know the make of this turkey frier but I can tell you that the burner looks like the same ones that are used on the Cabela's turkey friers. Seems like the flame is more of a candle frame flickering in the wind than what I would call a burner flame. Which leads me to question #2, do these burners ever need cleaning out so that they work better?
Thanks in advance for your help with this.
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Question #1 I have for all that are better at this than me is, do you put any kind of shield on the bottom of the dutch oven to capture more heat?( my dutch oven is smaller in circumfrance that the heat shield surounding the flame) Do you bend the metal where the burner is so that the flame is closer to the botton of the pot? (my burner is about 8-10 inches away from the bottom of the pot).
I do not know the make of this turkey frier but I can tell you that the burner looks like the same ones that are used on the Cabela's turkey friers. Seems like the flame is more of a candle frame flickering in the wind than what I would call a burner flame. Which leads me to question #2, do these burners ever need cleaning out so that they work better?
Thanks in advance for your help with this.
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