Category: FAQ

The output heat is adjustable.  The lowest is about 15,000 BTU/hr with conservative top of 137,000BTU/hr.  Depend on availability, some of our stoves can reach 167kBTU/hr.

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.

Inquiry:  how many cooking times does a 20lb propane tank last?

Outdoorstirfry:  This is a good question.  If you consider using the top heat power (i.e., 160kBTU/Hr from a PF13L160 stove) to cook every dish, a 20lbs propane tank can only last a few hours.   In reality, it is better to consider how much energy each dish needs to be cooked.   In this way it matches out about 3~4 months of usage for a tank.   Since I’m a personal user of my own stoves and I typically cook one dish a day (about 5~10 minutes), I find my tank last about 4~5 months, i.e., about 3 tanks a year.

A one lb propane bottle typically lasts about 1.5 hours.

PFS stove does not provide connection to a propane bottle. PFS can only be used to connect to a propane tank.  PFCS can be used to connect to a propane bottle or a propane tank. Both PFS and PFCS can be adjusted to about 137,000BTU/hr maximum and down to about 15,000BTU/hr at their lowest.

I have an 18″ round bottom wok, is that too big for your tall legged stove? What wok sizes are best for your stove?  Is the wok you sell stainless steel, and how big?

18″ round bottom wok should just work fine.  The wok we are selling is stainless and about 14″.

The stove puts out about 137kBTU/hr.  We acquire burners from our vendor and this is the size we can get now.

A commercial stove typically put out 125kBTU/hr and cost over US$1000.00.

The diameter of the stove ring is about 9″.

We typically use 14″ wok. A few inches variation should not be a problem.

We recommend stainless wok.  The reason is ease of maintenance.  Iorn wok is only better than stainless when the stove is not powerful enough.  Since our stove provides powerful heat, there is no concern in heat transfer to stainless wok.  You do not worry about getting rusty if you use stainless.