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what is the best use of the stove?

It is best used outdoor when your cooking may generate a lot of oily and spicy smoke (for example, deep fry and pepper dishes).  Over years due to in-house stove limitation, people either refrain from cooking such delicious dishes by dining out in restaurants, or ends up massive cleaning of their stove top, exhaust fan and kitchen cabinet area.

It is again best used outdoor when you want to cook very healthy, green looking, fresh retaining, crispy, tasty stir fry dishes.


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Is it good for BBQ and better than BBQ Grill?

The powerful stove is built to suit for wok cooking.  Its cooking (stir fry) is completely different from BBQ-ing.  It is not suitable for BBQ.  However, since most people have BBQ as their only outdoor cooking now, the outdoor stir fry stove provides an alternative way of living besides BBQ.  It is our belief that outdoor stir fry produces healthier foods.  Both stove and BBQ grill use the same propane tank.  Thus outdoor stir fry and BBQ in fact complement each other.

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He does not have gas line to his kitchen. What can he do?

He is looking for solution to replace his electric stove top with a gas one (He prefers more power and likes to use round bottom wok).  However, He does not have gas line to his kitchen.  What can he do?

In fact a regular stand alone gas stove, such as a portable butane stove, is what he needs.  If he worries too much that he has to stack up too many butane bottles (indeed he has to), then he may go buy a stand alone Chinese stove, such as those we see from local market.  Remember those stoves come with automatic ignition switch too, a feature he might be looking for.  A few concerns here: he has to make sure that the stove will work with an local tank (the stove may not be designed to use propane gas, for example),  gas consumption (stove efficiency) is acceptable to him, be safe in kitchen since the tank might be just outside of his oven.

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Can outdoorstirfry.com’s stoves accommodate a flat bottom skillet (frying pan)?

If the diameter of the flat bottom of the skillet is less than 9″ (inches), you can use a skillet to cook with our stove.  However, there are several precautions: 1) although the skillet fits the wind guard of the stove, it may not as steady; 2). the skillet may leave some gap between the burner and you.  The high pressure power flames may come close to your operating hand.  This will results in instant burning; 3).  Most available skillet on the market has a anti-stick coating which will not sustain high temperature cooking.

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Why does a family needs this besides a stove and oven?

As stated in its best uses, the outdoor stir fry stove will enable a family to enjoy home style restaurant quality foods.  The stove empowers its family ability to create new dish and meal with 10 times more power.  This high power makes possible for healthier (vitamin retaining) food cooking.  A general comparison is below among in-house stove, BBQ grill and this outdoor stir fry stove:

Brief Comparison Between In-House Stove Top, Outdoor BBQ and Outdoor Stirfry Stove

In-House Stove Top Outdoor BBQ Grill Outdoor Stirfry Stove
Can it stir fry? Yes No without add on Yes
Can it grill? No Yes No
What is its power rating? At most 14,000BTU/hr (4.1kW) At most 14,000BTU/hr (4.1kW) 137,000BTU/hr (60kW)
Time to cook a regular dish? 10 minutes (600 seconds) 40 minutes 40 seconds
Result of your vegetable dish? Soggy Soggy Crispy, fresh and tasty
Where are you and your family? Inside the house Outdoor Can be outdoor
Can you cook smoky dish? No (add cleaning life-time) Yes Inherent
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Stove came in today but hose seems short. Can I send just the burner back for you to install a 4′ hose?

First let me explain a little bit.  

  1. This is what’s available from our vendor.  The manufacturing quality of the hose, orifice and regulator combo is guaranteed by our vendor (that’s why there is a red tag on the regulator).
  2. 2’ hose seems to be the industry norm for high pressure gas appliance.  We have been using this 2’ hose without any problem.

There are a few solutions here:

  1. As you said in your email, you can send back your 2’ hose/regulator/orifice combo (unscrew it from the burner. You don’t need to send back the burner).  We will try to order a longer combo for you.  And you have to pay for the price difference.  This may take some time.  I’m not able to only replace the hose because that hose diameter is specially made for that combo.
  2. I imagine that the hose is too short for you to reach a tank placed on the ground.  If this is the case, place something below the tank to make it reach;
  3. Upgrade PFS to a PFL such that it stands alone on ground.
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I would also like to use the unit to deep fry a turkey and boil lobster. Is it suitable for this as well (assuming I use the appropriate pot)?

This is a tough one.  Usually frying a turkey is done with a tall pot.  Since our stove wind guard is round (matching to a round bottom wok) without any slippery protection, it is tricky to set a tall pot with full boiled oil to maintain stability (usually backyard is windy).  This is why most of southern deep turkey fry stoves are in low profile to maintain sturdiness.  We do have a PowerFlamer PFS which is low profile.  However no prevention against slippery is a still concern.  With respect to boil lobster, if your pot is not high profile it should be fine.  In summary, maintaining pot stability with our stove is the key if you are not using a round bottom wok. We will think of how to adapt our stove to southern cooking.  Thank you for your questions.