The reviews would say otherwise. Here's some quotes about boil time and the "saf-t" features:
Thsi product is good for first timers with no expirience. I have not used it for frying yet, but I have had a few seafood boils. The seafood came out great. The one problem that I had, and this kept it from getting that fourth star, is the burner is weak and that timer has to be pushed in every 15 minutes. I just zip tied the thing down so I could keep the fire going. It took me 1 1/2 hours to get the water boiling. So start early. As soon as I put the crabs/shrimp in the water stopped boiling and it took me another 30 minutes to get it boiling again. Other than that I love the tip guard especially with small kids and dogs around it. the spout makes for an easy cleanup. Oh, it should come with a basket, too.
The burner is just hot enough. If there is more than a slight breeze you'll need to set up some type of wind block or you'll have trouble keeping the oil at >300°. I cooked a 12 pound bird no problem, then a 20 pound bird as well. But that 20 pound bird just barely fit, and after dropping it in the oil dropped from 350° to below 300° and it took me 20 minutes to get that temp back up over 300°.
I understand engineers tried to make this unit safer with a timer on the gas flow where you need to press it every 15 minutes to keep the gas on. But, pweeease, you can't fix stupid. It is annoying and I'm taking that out before I use this again.
The drain spout is helpful. On Thanksgiving day it made it easier to drain the oil through a paper cone filter to recycle for Christmas day.
I bought this cooker last year for Thanksgiving and had to end up bringing the Turkey inside to finish cooking since we could not get the oil hot enough. This year at Thanksgiving we tried again and it was a success. Oil got hot enough and Turkey cooked right on time.
We had such a great experience with Thanksgiving 2010 we decided to try again for Christmas. However, as I started to heat the oil, I realized the pot had a small hole in the bottom and we were losing oil. Needless to say, we didn't have Turkey for dinner. I would not recommend ths product to anyone. It has design issues and durability is not very good. I would have thought you could get more than 3 uses out of the cooker.
First time we ever fried a turkey so wanted this pot. We have two other burners, Cooker was great, easy to use and great for cleaning. Pot is not as durable as one with hope as it gets little dings in it. Overall great buy
Bought this for Thanksgiving. I was anticipating a 1 hr cook time for the Turkey but I could never get the oil hot enough. The cooker has great features but the burner is so weak. Had to eventually take the pot and put it on the Gas grill which was way more powerfullGuess you can just throw all those sfaety features out if it cant even get the oil hot enough to cook.
That's just about every review for this product on the Lowe's site. Hope it helps.