Multi-Purpose Propane Cooker

JesseMcG · Post by **JesseMcG** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:20 pm

Is it just me, or is this an awesome price???

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/2 ... sories.jsp

The pot might not be heavy duty enough to prevent burning though eh? Still...

grub · Post by **grub** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:03 pm

your link isn't working. this one might work better: http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/2 ... ookers.jsp

anyway, that looks similar but not quite the same as the one i bought from them 4 years ago, but $5-10 cheaper. the pot on mine is a crappy aluminum pot that i wouldn't trust using. the burner is decent but not terribly powerful. the top was too small for keggles, so i added a bunch of L brackets to make it work.

markaberrant · Post by **markaberrant** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:37 pm

I bought the stainless steel model a couple years (CT no longer carries them, just the aluminum). I've put a keggle on my burner a couple times, the brackets sit on the inside rim of the keg as opposed to the outside of the rim, but seems to be fine.

I think the burner is 65k btu. Seems plenty to me, but I'm only boiling 6.5 gallons at the most.

grub · Post by **grub** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:00 pm

markaberrant wrote:I think the burner is 65k btu. Seems plenty to me, but I'm only boiling 6.5 gallons at the most.

yeah, works fine with small batches (we mostly do 11gal+ these days), and can happily maintain a boil on even the big ones - it just takes for-ev-er to get the full wort up to a boil on it.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:07 pm

So how long is For-ev-er?

I think my gas stove-top is about 30 minutes (with 4 gallons on the big burner & 3 gallons on a smaller one).

No idea what the BTU's are...

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:08 pm

Derek wrote:So how long is For-ev-er?

Long enough to cook sausages for a sausage fest?

zanate · Post by **zanate** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:48 am

Long-time lurker, first-time poster...

I bought this exact unit at the start of the summer when I had to move my brewing outside... mostly for lack of any alternatives in town. It's solid and works just fine for my partial wort boils, but a few notes of caution:

- It has a base of limited width... if you have a wide pot you'll probably need to take an angle grinder to it.

- It has a 10-minute shutoff timer that you need to keep winding up.

- The pot is crap. Absolute crap. If you like your beer dark and crispy with a hint of aluminum, it's the pot for you.

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:43 pm

Has anyone had any experience with this burner
Bayou Classic SP-10 High Pressure Cooker or know of any Canadian sources for this or a decent outdoor burner? Every one I seem to find is bundled with a turkey pot. I've seen it on ebay coming from Texas.

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:19 pm

phirleh wrote:Has anyone had any experience with this burner
Bayou Classic SP-10 High Pressure Cooker or know of any Canadian sources for this or a decent outdoor burner? Every one I seem to find is bundled with a turkey pot. I've seen it on ebay coming from Texas.

I got a turkey fryer from Bass Pro, 80,000 BTU and the turkey pot is good for bringing water for lautering to temp

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:44 pm

I just ordered the Bayou SP-10, supposedly 185,000 BTU's. With shipping and exchange, it works out to almost the same amount as the Canadian Tire turkey fryer.