Converting propain turkey fryer to natural gas?

[Brewboz]

Hey so I have been think and planning and here are my thoughts. I am going to upgrade my turkey fryer burner (55,000) btu to natural gas. The ring you see with tape measure is about 8 3/4s. So the 23 tip jet burner (160,000) btu is 8" 3/4s as well. A tight fit I'd say.. So the smaller 10 tip jet burner (80,000) btu is a 6" diameter. Both are about the same price. Wich one should I get?

 

[Kswanny]

I bought the 10 tip. Got everything converted but bought the wrong sized pipe for the burner to valve portion. I'll be putting it together this week.

I've only ever brewed 5 gal batches but never had any issues with 55,000 BTU. I can't imagine you'd need more than 80,000.

Did you ever order any of it?

 

[VVbrewery]

I would think 85K will be more than enough. I'm redoing my system and in a moment of stupidity ordered 2 200K burners and if I were to run them wide open I'd probably melt the ball valves, sight glass and thermometers off my 10 gallon pots.

 

[Kswanny]

Yeah. My concern was the flame height even on the 10 tip. If you've already done one working set up, did you find a good guide to work off or are you a plumber that knows what you're doing

 

[Andre3000]

I know this is an old thread and this isn't exactly what the OP was asking but I was wondering about converting this turkey fryer burner when I got it:

To be honest I think its overall design is poor for natural gas conversion for whatever reason. I first followed the standard propane to natural gas orifice conversion and ended up with one very weak albeit good looking flame. I drilled the orifice out more in several increments hoping to increase its power. Each time the flame got a bit more powerful but still not as great as I was hoping for. As it stands its power is just barely acceptable for my purposes. It's also got a bit of orange at the flame tips (no CO though) and it produces a fair amount of soot on the kettle so I'm hesitant to go any further for safety reasons. YMMV and if you don't know what you're doing, I'd suggest buying a proper natural gas burner.