Customer Reviews

Bayou Classic KAB4 High Pressure Banjo Cooker

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I got this burner for home brewing beer at the recommendation of one of the homebrew forums I read regularly. The box arrived in a little bit rough shape, but everything worked great. Very easy to use, just hook up to a propane tank similar to the way you hook up a gas grill.

It generates a lot of heat! This is a mixed blessing as it gets a good boil going, but I found it a little bit difficult to control the heat (getting it to slow down enough to not over boil).

For my own use, I run it with the lowest amount of air/gas available (lowest flame), but if you are in need of serious heat or doing some serious outdoor cooking this burner does the job!

Pros: Lot of flame, easy to use, easy to setup.

Cons: Little difficult to control the heat as the lowest setting still runs a bit hot.

This is a great burner for quick heating of 10gallons of water. It heats 10 gallons from around 50F to boiling in around 20 minutes. It does not come with a pot. It eats gas.

This is the second burner that I have purchased from "Bayou Classic". This burner roars literally when you crank it up. The burner arrived in NEW condition as expected and worked just fine. My only complaint is that it goes through propane really fast, I recomend buying a "20 PSI Regulator". My other "Bayou Classic" burner of similar design runs on a 20PSI regulator and puts out over 155,000 BTU's and will make 3 to 4 all grain batches of beer on one(per burner) 17 pound propane tank. I use my burners for homebrewing and they do a great job. I highly recommend this product.

This cooker is really heavy duty. Lots of BTUs enough to boil water in a 20 quart pot in about 8 minutes. This is a special use item that meets and exceeds its purpose.

this is a great burner. We also have the 122 QT stainless crawfish pot. With this burner, we were able to have a rolling boil going in 15 minutes! No breaks with mine like other people were complaining about. Arrived the very next day after ordering, without paying overnight shipping price! This cooker is much larger than it seems in the picture.

would I recommend? absolutely!

This is truly a high pressure very hot burner; the amount of heat that this is capable of producing is nothing short of amazing. If you want to heat or boil a large quantity of water or frying oil, it is too hot for small pots, this burner will do the job.

This item was received with the burner seperated from the manifold and the gasket destroyed. Hence a generous one star. Upon contacting Bayou Classic's customer support to obtain a replacement gasket, they were not helpful at all. They could only tell me to return this item to amazon for a replacement. I decided to try to repair myself by finding some high temperature gasket material locally and fabricating a new gasket. After removing all the old material and replacing this gasket, this burner works very nicely. I purchased this burner for home brewing and carefull brew pot placement is neccessary unless the burner frame is modified by welding small retainers at each of the four support rods which I have done. This has made this product very nice for home brewing. This finished product is now a five star product!!!!

My burner came in exactly the same condition as the previous reviewer's. Open box, busted leg. The weld is obviously rusted. I would recommend not ordering this product from Amazon, since this seems to be a trend.

When I bought this product, it was said to be "new"! However, upon opening the package it arrived in, the cooker was in an already opened inner box. I though that perhaps someone just opened the inner box to check the item before it was sent? As I opened the inner box, one of the "legs" on the cooker was broken off and rusted! I needed to use this right away so I did not send it back. Now I will have to get this "leg" welded back on! Beware of the "new" designation!

I bought this item because of a great price, Amazon shipped it regualr UPS and I received it earlier that expected, the box looked in good shape but when I opened it one of the legs was broken off,I thought at first that it must have taken a pretty good hit to do that, so I called customer service and they sent me a return tag and shipped me a new one right out, I got it, opened it and the exact same thing, box was in good shape but 1 leg was broken, I called customer service and again they shipped another one out, this time second day air. I get the third one and guess what, the exact same thing for the third time! I looked at it carefully and each time it was broken at the weld in two areas on the cooker and it had to have been poor workmanship and quality control, it even looked like it had rusted in one weld! I can't say enough about Amazon's customer service,but I wouldn't reccommend buying the banjo cooker by mail order!