Companion Megajet Burner Questions

[esssee]

I bit the bullet, and bought a Megajet Burner from Ray's Outdoors, the other day.

Did a practice run last night. Ramped from 65 degrees to boil in 25 minutes. This was after starting off fairly low, and ramped the heat up a few times.

Just a couple of questions for those that use them.

1) How high do you set your burner? In the end, I had it somewhere between 1/6 to 1/4 of a turn.

2) Some of the powdercoating has burned off. Did you experience this? It put off a bit of an odour, which I don't need SWMBO complaining about.

Thanks.

 

[Bridges]

Yeah the powder coating burns off, smokes and smells but it'll only do this once. (maybe twice if it didn't all burn off during your test run) I find it barely needs to be on to maintain a good boil too. Great burner.

 

[pommiebloke]

Yeah, stinks eh? But like Bridges said it gets the job done.

 

[MastersBrewery]

how high to set the burner well on 50l batch it was pretty low to maintain boil, if your running too high you'll be fighting boil over the whole brew.

 

[Khellendros13]

Going to pick mine up for $139 today. Taylors Lakes had no stock on Sunday, and havn't called me back about ordering one for me, so I asked the City store and they have stock and will do the sale price for me.

It looks pretty sturdy, and from all accounts uses less gas for a stonger boil than 3-4 ring burners?

 

[brewologist]

Hey guys,

They are good burner's. I use mine to boil 60 liters of wort. I start off with it going flat out from mash out to boil and then ease it off a bit as the hot break rises. Once it starts boiling, I fine tune it as the wort evaporates to avoid a boil over/excessive boiling.

They are noisey buggers. Sounds like a space shuttle is taking off. Thats why I'm going all electric on my current build. 5500w of power.

 

[pommiebloke]

They are noisey buggers. Sounds like a space shuttle is taking off. Thats why I'm going all electric on my current build. 5500w of power.

They certainly do make some noise. Since getting my urn I do single batches in that and save the burner for double batches for that reason and also because the gas works out more expensive.

 

[carniebrew]

Can anyone say how much gas you'd expect to use on one of these things with say a 60m boil? Just curious how often you need to refill a 9kg bottle.

 

[brewologist]

I get 4 double batches.

 

[Vanoontour]

Can anyone say how much gas you'd expect to use on one of these things with say a 60m boil? Just curious how often you need to refill a 9kg bottle.

The standard reg is only 2kg per hour

 

[pommiebloke]

I get 4 double batches.

Yep, that sounds about right. Just make sure you don't go balls out the whole boil. Once it gets up to the boil you can back off a fair bit and still get a reasonable boil off.

If you go flat out you'll get too much evaporation and go through much more gas.

 

[Phillo]

It looks pretty sturdy, and from all accounts uses less gas for a stonger boil than 3-4 ring burners?

I'd be curious to know actually. Since I got my adjustable regulator I've only been using 0.9kg gas for a 23L brew (60min boil) on my 3-ring burner.