[TheForge] simple propane burner question

[Doug Ayen]

Yellow flame and soot indicate that you're not as efficient as when the
flame is blue.

Old boy scout trick: to make the soot easy to get off, rub the outside
of the pot with a little soap. The soot just washes right off that way.

You might check your burner for a choke, if the flame is yellow then there
isn't enough oxygen in the mix. If there is a choke, open it to the widest
position; if there isn't, you might consider converting the burner to
a Ron Reil style burner -- they're cheap, effective, and you can adjust the
output easily. 

--doug


Barking Crow sang:
> 
> In the soap business we routinely heat large pots of solid and liquid
> vegetable oils in 4 or 5 gallon aluminum pots over a simple maybe $40 burner
> on the floor on its own legs.  The problem that's causing a domestic
> disturbance is that the pots keep getting a thick coating of soot which is
> nigh impossible to clean off and gets on everything it touches.  I keep
> adjusting the burner so that the many little flames are blue and to my mind
> burning the fuel efficiently, then my wife who is the real soapmaker comes
> along early in the am to heat the pots of oils and says she can't wait on
> the flame like I've adjusted it and turns it up so that the flame has lots
> of yellow but she thinks heats faster.  My question is,  can it really put
> out more heat with the yellow flames?
> 
> Any help will be appreciated, even if I'm wrong.  I'm used to it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff Valentine
> 
> Barking Crow
> http://www.barkingcrow.com
> mail@barkingcrow.com
> 
> 
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