Outdoor kitchen side burner BTU question

I opted to go with the regular burner and wish I would have went with power burner instead. It’s fine for warming up sides and browning onions but if u have any wind it really struggles to do anything more than that as heat dissipates a lot more than inside in closed environment.

If main purpose is to fry our boil smaller pots
Of seafood definitely spend extra money

save the $800, that's insane

if you need more then buy a separate $40 boiling burner to cook on and use the $760 you saved for beer

In my last outdoor kitchen I had a dual side burner that was 20,000 btu. It was actually too much for anything other than frying or boiling even on low. I would think a 12k cranked to high would be plenty for frying. Couldn’t cook a gumbo or a jambalaya or a gravy because it would burn it.

Go higher if you want to fry or boil the big pots. I do all my frying outside in my outdoor kitchen. That smell is hard to get out.

12k is the high side of a decent indoor range burner. But a big pot needs more of you are cooking for party’s. It really depends on the mac size you are going to cook.