re: Crawfish Pot Size?

So not far from 20gal/ burner. How long would you say 20gal would last on one?

8 pages to boil water.

And someone will still do it wrong.

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So not far from 20gal/ burner. How long would you say 20gal would last on one?

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kind of depends on the setup, I can do about 5,000 lbs on one tank

You cook for a business/ work? That's a lot of bugs. We 500 sometimes and that's a lot to me

Mind me asking how you cook em, what seasoning you use?

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Anyone ever use one of those blue bug boilers?

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Got one. They work well as soon as we extended the burner tubes to actually get the fire closer to the actual pot. I can boil two sacks in mine easily.

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This is where I run into problems. Not sure I have enough BTUs to get back to boiling fast enough.

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I went to a friend's the other night and he has this "pot" that is double walled and hooked to the burner with a drain on the pot.

SIX minutes from lighting fire to boil. Could not believe it.

He paid $800.00 to have it made with a Toepher in Eunice. This was several years back.

I'm going to try and get a pic but he said people borrow it all the freakin time.

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Mind me asking how you cook em, what seasoning you use?

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I use my own seasoning

I have a 60 and 80 qt pot. I find that with my burnner set up, the 60 qt pot cooks better.

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teach me your ways. I make a pretty good pot of crawfish, but I've never made my own seasoning

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I'm not yellowfin but I used to do some commerical boiling and I mixed my own seasoning also. My blend consisted of:

Ground crab boil (a base seasoning-does not include salt or cayenne-bought it from Louisiana Fish Fry in Baton Rouge or Deep South Blenders in New Orleans in 50lb cases)

Salt

Cayenne pepper

Chinese red pepper (like 2-3 times as hot as cayenne)

Granulated garlic

Then some people will add liquid boil to the above recipe to add that liquid flavor. I also used to add onions,garlic,celery,etc to my boils.