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This is is the burner I am considering.

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I could not find on their web site what gas there burners are designed to use.... but I bet it is propane. If so, natural gas will not work to boil seafood.

Even it the burner is "modified" to burn natural gas, instead of putting out 60,000 BTU/hr it would be reduced to less than 15,000 BTU/hr.

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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.

Junky,

Did you finish installing this setup? Interested to see how it came out.