We recently bought our first house, meaning we now have a backyard, and we could now host our own crawfish boils.

I shopped around online to find a jet burner and stainless steel pot.

I ended up with these:

https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/king-kooker-12-tripod-propane-jet-burner/pid-27735

http://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/outdoor-gourmet-pro-153-100-qt-stainless-steel-pot-with-strainer/pid-1039955?N=10001+933739034&Ntt=outdoor+gourment&Ntk=All


The burner is rated at 105,000 BTU. I filled the pot up a little over half with water (about 60 quarts probably).

It took near an hour to get the water to a rolling boil. Once I added the crawfish (45 lbs), it took about 10 minutes to get back to a small boil (not rolling) and most of the crawfish were red and floating, so I went ahead and shut it off and let them soak.

I figured 105,000 BTU would be ideal for a 100 quart pot. Is the burner under performing? Could it be improved with a better regulator? Or is this all normal?

[This message has been edited by stridulent (edited 6/9/2014 9:50a).]

Did the burner sound like it was "roaring"? If not you need to adjust the vavles. They can be difficult to get just right so it operates correctly.

I did feel like it should be louder. Are the values right before the flame exit?

There should be an oxygen flow gate where the gas line goes into the burner. Adjust that and see how it goes. It should get it to boiling in about 15 min.

You need to play around with the tank valves as well. Does your burner have a reglator?

Thank you both. Will test when I get home. It did come with a regulator.

It did not ice up or even condensate.

I did not use the flame deflector. Could that be one of the problems? It kept falls down anytime the burner was bumped, so I opted not to use it and just swung it to the side.

Also ... Make sure you turn the propane tank on slowly.

Too fast and it could trigger the regulator, causing it to reduce the flow

http://www.charbroil.com/troubleshooting/my-grill-has-low-flames.html

http://www.glaciertanks.com/Jet_Burners-Jet_Burners_Cast_Iron_440_000_BTU_44_Tip_Propane.html
This is what you need. They do make a smaller version, I believe 200000 btu. This is a low pressure burner and I sold many when I was in the propane business. Will definitely get a large pot to a rolling boil. You just need to get a regulator with large enough volume/btu output to go with it.