Steve,

I have another quick question. When it comes to burners and BTU what do you recommend?? For some reason I have seen hot dog carts for sale with burners from 7,000 BTU to 36,000 BTU. Thats kind of crazy. Could you shed some light on this.

Thanks as always,
John C.

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Hi John,

High BTUs let you heat your water a lot faster. After the water comes up to temp you can shut the burners off or at least turn them way down to save propane. A low BTU burner will require you to run your burners on full blast most of the time which uses more propane.

Cold weather vending will make it painfully obvious if you have too little BTUs. Waiting 45 minutes for your water to heat up is a pain in the you-know-what.

My personal E-Z Built cart has two burners each rated at 15,000 BTUs which give me 30,000 total. I wouldn’t want to operate with less.

I hope this helps!

What say you slingers? How many BTUs do you operate with and do you wish you had more?

Steve