Related story, the other week I was brewing with two guys who both use generic turkey fryer burners. We were sitting at my patio table about 8-10 feet from my Blichmann burner, both of them had their backs to it. After talking for about 10 minutes, one of them says, "I guess we should get started, let's heat up the strike water". I laughed. The strike water had been heating up the entire time we'd been sitting there. Neither one of them even noticed the burner was on and began to tell me how nice it was to brew without the jet engine noise of their normal burner. I take it for granted since I've had the Blichmann since I started all grain.