Customer Reviews

Camp Chef SHP-RL High Pressure Single Burner Cooker with Detachable legs and Round top, Black

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Length:: 1:19 Mins

Chef Kurt, in the field with a Camp Chef Single Burner Stove.

This stove is the brother to the SH-140L deluxe high pressure, both can do the job, PROS: to this model is it will hole a round pot better, and the way the legs store. The SH 140L has the cloverleaf design that is a bit heavier duty and a higher cooking height.

Camp Chef SH-140L High Pressure Single Burner Cooker with Detachable legs and Clover Leaf Surface, Black

Overall you can go wrong with these stoves.

If you are looking for more camp cooking check out the modular cooking or the mountain series.

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From the field to the grill!

I bought this to boil wort for a home brewing setup. It works fantastic for that. I got a rolling boil pretty quick while it was in the 30's outside.

Here is what I don't like:
-They always paint the tops of these things. Expect it to burn off, stink horribly, turn white. What doesn't burn off will flake all over the place. I know it looks better painted, but it's annoying.
-For some reason, every time I lite this thing, the flame shoots back up the burner and I get a little flame at the end of the hose where the air inlet is located. It blows out easily enough, but I don't like flame where it's not supposed to be, so watch for that.
-I think a better hose would be nice, but it does regulate the flame from full on to low flame reasonably well. I did get a kick out of the label that says to keep flammables 10 feet away, and the hose is 2 feet long.

Here is what I like:
-My 12 gallon pot fits on it perfectly, of course your results might be different, but my pot is wider than tall and the base fits just inside the ring while sitting on the platform bars. The top ring is nice and large.
-It's very stable. I never felt like the pot was going to rock or parboil me if I bumped it by accident.
-People say these things are loud, but I don't really think it's that loud. Certainly louder than your grill, but once you hit temp you can crank it down to sustain temp. That's much quieter, and more fuel efficient. It sounds about like if you went to your car and released a bunch of air out of your valve stem.

I think it's a perfect stove for brewing, with sufficient temp control and plenty of power. I'm sure it would work great for frying stuff, or pretty much anything that requires large amounts of hot liquid.

About the Unit:
Overall, I'm happy with the solid build. I purchased the extended legs and it supposes to add another 13 inches as advertise but it only added 11 in. So from original cooktop height 15.5 in, got up to 26.5 in (claimed to be 28.5+ inches tall). Not very happy about this but well, too late now. If I knew this ahead, I would have spend the money at Home Depot custom make my own extension bars.

About Propane Consumption:
This is a high output burner at 60000 BTU/hr. Therefore, with the low output burner at 30000 BTU/hr, the consumption and cost below will be divided in half.

Camp Chef SHP-RL Propane Consumption and Cost
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20 lb propane tank holds 360000 BTU/hr.
Camp Chef SHP-RL Burner Max Output 60000 BTU/hr.
Propane last: 360000/60000 = 6 Hours (at Max Output)
20 lb propane = 4.6 gallons.

4.6 gallons x $4.25 (at U-Haul) = $19.55 Refill Cost
$19.55/6 Hours = $3.26 per hour of usage.

I did a lot of research before buying this stove. I bought this stove because I wanted a well built, compact, powerful and versatile stove that could fry a turkey, boil water or just cook while we are camping. This stoves 7500 BTU gets the job done. One other thing I like about this stove is that it can be broken down to a very small footprint. You might think that ability would make the stove unstable. You would be wrong, the stove is very stable even with the legs extensions. This is a great stove for our needs.

It's good one to buy. I use it to cook on my deck. If you want it to be taller you should buy legs that you can find from amazon.

Ever wonder why the resturant food tasted better than home cooked? This burner solved that mystery. Most home stoves are boiling the food, not really fry them. This burner put out so much heat, it evaporates the water in the juice, so the juice from food can stay with the food. Flavor is much better in the food cooked on this burner.

Ever since we have this burner, we don't go out to the restruant that much any more. You can really taste the differences from home cooking!

Amazon is so good offer free shipping of this item!

Very good to use and also take a small space.
I bought the cooker bag to and that is excellent.
Regards Wasakira