Someone explain why a double jet is better than this?

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What am I missing?

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The noise.

Seriously. That burner flows more gas than the 180k double jet and therefor, heats stuff faster. Been saying for many many years now that jet burners are stupid.

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Just looking strictly at the numbers, most double jet are 180k Btu.

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its all about the regulator on it.

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Change the regulator, and you'll get a lot more than 180K BTU out of it.

I used to use an old rusted out fryer and it would blow flames half way up the sides of the pot. In fact, that's how it got it's name as the "witches pot".

My buddy asked to borrow my pot a few times and he went and bought a double jet burner for me as a thank you. It shaved maybe 5 minutes off getting a 100qt. pot boiling.

In other words, a giant fryer like that will work. Something about kicking those jets on just feels right though and over time it would begin to add up the amount of gas you save I'd think.

Yes I’ve gathered everyone says to do that (which I will), but could apply the same logic to the 200k btu burner as well and get even more than 200k btu. And still not having the noise.

I just didn’t know if there was some weird science-y reason why everyone says jet burners are king - I.e. “it concentrates the flame, which does x”

Seems like there’s not really a reason why they are better form what I’ve seen thus far. Perhaps just a thing of the past.

The double jet burner is about $50 less than the big fryer on the same website you linked.

You can only shove so much gas through a jet. It is an orifice, and at some point you are just making noise and not actually flowing any more gas no matter how much pressure you put behind it. It's just going to make a shitload of noise.

Having 50 orifices is going to allow a higher flow rate at a lower supply pressure and less noise while additionally spreading the heat out.

Jet burners only exist because some coonasses figured out you could drill out a grease zerk and build your own burner for free. Otherwise, they make absolutely zero sense from any kind of technical standpoint. Banjo burners are superior in every way.

If you put it on blast it is, but those are much better than a typical grease zerk jet burner. It's actually usable at lower flame and can really put out when you want it to. I like them a lot.

We use one of those for everything from 35gal jambalaya to boiling.

I have the same one and even if it happens to take longer (which I doubt) it’s worth it to me to be able to hold a conversation next to it without yelling.

Works fine in comparison to the jet? No noticeable difference?

I don’t even care if it takes a few minutes longer to boil.

I have one of those large diameter banjo burners. Bought it for beer brewing. I went thru a tank of propane in 2 brews where with the smaller burners, I'd get at least 4+ brews out of a tank. Its sitting in my shed providing shelter for spiders now.