Reddit reviews Camp Chef Maximum Output Single Cooker
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60,000 total BTU/hr for high power, fast, efficient cooking.1 commercial quality cast burner for lasting durability24" cooking height for added comfortThe Maximum Output system provides a wide range of cooking options16.5 Inches by 17.25 Inches by 11.75 Inches
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Just get a Camp Chef. Sturdy, basic, extremely reliable, and powerful. Mine's rated at 65,000 BTUs and can get 6 gallons of 50 degree tap water to a rolling boil in less than 8 minutes.
A collar of steel/aluminum that goes around the burner, forcing all the hot air to hit your brew pot instead of blowing out the sides.
For example, this King Kooker has no collar, but this Camp Chef does.
Don't know if you're looking for suggestions, but I have two of these and they don't budge when you have a completely full keggle bubbling away:
http://www.amazon.com/Camp-Chef-SH-140L-Pressure-Detachable/dp/B0000ASCU9/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1372712647&sr=1-1&keywords=camp+chef+burner
I never said it was possible to brew AG in 3 hours or less. In his initial question, OP wrote that he thought AG would take 3-4 additional hours compared to an extract brew day. In my experience, AG takes me around an hour longer. Here's how I get there:
My setup when I was brewing extract was a 5 gallon pot, gas stove, and an ice bath in my sink for chilling. My gas stove sucked. I would steep for 20 minutes, then it would take me around 30-45 minutes to bring my water to a boil. Boil for an hour, then chill to pitching temps which generally took around 30 minutes. So all said and done I was looking at slightly over 2.5 hours, and that's if I was super efficient with my time. In reality, when taking into account cleaning my kitchen and setting up before hand and cleanup afterwards I was really at around 3.5 - 4 hours.
My AG setup is a cooler mash tun, 10 gallon megapot, Camp Chef propane burner, and I still use an ice bath for chilling. (Next upgrade is a wort chiller.) I use two pots on my stove to heat my strike water which will take roughly 20 minutes. Mash for 60 minutes, then sparge for 15. My camp chef burner will bring my water to a boil in around 20 minutes. Boil for 60 minutes. To chill, right now I'm draining half of my wort into one of the kettles I used to heat sparge water and setting up two ice baths - one in my kitchen for the sparge kettle and one in my basement sink for my boil kettle. So, chilling still takes me about the same amount of time, 30 minutes give or take, since I'm chilling around 2.5 gallons in two pots. All said and done, that's 3 hours and 40 minutes. With several brew days under my belt, I'm right around 4 hours in reality.
Yes, there are several things that could be done to chop time off my extract brew day. A more efficient stove would make the biggest difference. Cut out steeping grains and add a wort chiller and you could easily be done in 2 hours or less. As for the cost of my AG setup, $400 is pretty dead on. The megapot is $219, the camp chef burner is roughly $80, and the cooler and fittings cost me around $50. That totals to $349, include tax and shipping and we're right around $400.
I've never seen a standalone infrared burner.
I am not recommending this, but another option is to get a high power outdoor propane burner like this one (picked randomly from amazon)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000ASCU9/
This burner is 60,000 BTU. To give you perspective, that's more power in one burner than most gas ranges have across all of their burners.
Put a cast iron pan on that and you'll be at crazy high heat in no time.
What kind of burner is that? I have this one and I'm looking for something more powerful