Banjo Burner

[Surlyday]

Who has experience with the Banjo Kick A? I've read how powerful they are and how much propane they use. Just set one up and tried to boil about 4 gallons of water. I've got it set pretty low and my water temp is about 125 after 45 minutes. How high of flames do I need? How high is too high and just inefficient?

 

[day_trippr]

A lot depends on the pot diameter, but the bottom line is to adjust the flame height up until the heat plume going up the sides of the pot seems excessive, then turn it down a tad, then adjust the air shutter to get those flames blue and planted to the burner nozzles. Too little air and the flames turn yellow, too much air and the flames go blue but start lifting off the nozzles.

Fwiw, I have the equivalent to the KAB-6 (it uses the 10" diameter BG-14 burner) and I can reliably take 7 gallons of water from 55°F to boiling in 40 minutes using a 13" diameter pot...

Cheers!

 

[declanhalpin]

I was really frustrated by how much propane I was going through using my banjo out-of-the-box. I had to keep an extra tank on hand, because they would literally freeze due to the rapid expansion inside the tank.

I cut the frame of the burner down to lower the kettle by ~2.5" and now I can run a whole boil with no freezing and dramatically less consumption. I highly recommend lowing the kettle platform.

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[fletchsj]

the tips of the blue flame should be just touching the bottom of the pot. I get my mash h20 to boil in about 15 min with mine. if i toss all 7.5 gal in at once. (5 gal batch)

you might consider getting a bigger tank too. those little bbq tanks aren't big enough to push those burners very well.

 

[ScottSingleton]

wow.. wasn't there another thread with this exact same original post?

+1 to kicking up the flame, getting bigger tanks, etc.