re: Outdoor Kitchen Question: Built in burner for boiling crawfish

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Per Operating Manual, burner can be set up for natural gas or propane.

I have a pot boiler, burner is rated at ~150,000 BTU/hr. Uses natural gas @ 6" water column pressure (standard pressure for residential use). A little slower than propane, but I never run out of fuel. So I have to laugh when people say NG can't boil a big pot of water. It's all about proper burner sizing and volume.

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I agree with you.
I checked some data on propane vs Natural gas. I was somewhat off in what I remembered [almost 50 years ago when I worked in a refinery]. Natural gas has a little less than 1/2 the energy [I said it was about 1/4] of propane.

Glad to see that this burner can be converted to run on natural gas. But.... you can still only get just so much cubic feet of gas to come out of the burner. And if that mixture of gas has less energy.... it will not boil a pot of water as fast as propane. And, as stated by some posters, the difference is not that much.

I am not a fan of the "JET" burners for two reasons. First they are very loud. Second, they are less efficient and burn a lot more fuel because the fuel and air are not mixed before it comes out of the burner.

Do you have hot water out there? If so, just fill the pot with hot water and it gets pretty close to the same time.