A couple of years ago I bought the three burner big boy stove at Costco. It is made by a Utah company called the Great Outdoors. My model is the Expedition. It has three burners and works off of a portable propane tank. Its the same kind of tank that is used for gas barbeques.
The big issue for this set up is maintaining the burners. It has a nice stand and it will hold my biggest pot.
When you hook it up to get it going it is essential that all the connections be checked with a squirt of windex to make sure that the connections hold and that there will be no safety issues.
I check this out before we started making jam on it this year and all the burners checked out. I took the pipe cleaners to the little holes and the vent and it was great. Sometimes a spider takes up residence in the tubes and the little gas holes do not work that well.
By the time Linzi made it over to see us and to get the strawberry jam going there was a storm. The burners did not get covered. Only one of the three burners pushed the gas out with a blue flame instead of a yellow one. A yellow one means that the air is not adjusted properly. This puts more carbon out and causes the bottom of the pot to get soot all over it. Such was the case for the 17 quart pot. The area around the cooking surface was nice and clean but he pot got sooty.
The best way to clean the soot off the pan is with some comet sink cleaner and a scrub cloth. It did the trick and everything is back to being able to be stored in the kitchen until the next jam session.
Have a great weekend!
: ) Pat
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