Low country/crawfish boil pot input

Get a propane fish cooker from walmart. Perfect height and can hold a large pot Then find a HEAVY aluminum pot with a basket AND lid.  A 5 gallon one thats what I use ...sounds like over kill but a half full pot is much easier to handle than a full 2.5 gallon one.Turkey pot works ok but the Basket is the trick.
just a personal trick..
when the spuds etc. Are all cooked. Dump shrimp in boiling mix/water. Stir and Turn off the heat, Cover for 10 mintes..perfect shrimps...artichoke s are an added treat as well

BigGreenBamaGriller said:

Thanks. Some of the burners I've looked at seem kinda crappy. I guess there isn't much difference from one to the other?

Right now these are on sale at Lowes for 59.00 bucks. Ther are regular 129.00 bucks. For the money they are excellent for boiling large quantities. It's a Bayou Classic double jet burner. They are not suited for frying unless you are doing a a real large pot of cooking oil. Their forte is boiling and they are excellent for this purpose. Last week at the crawfish festival in NO, it was the most used burner by far by most of the teams. Again, for the money, these are excellent boiling rigs. They also work excellent for starting charcoal and lump in a chimney starter. If you are looking for a reasonably priced high performance boiler, the double jet is hard to beat for 59.00 bucks.

The above burner is both dangerous to operate and a fuel hog. However in the game of one up manship, it usually easily wins.  

BigGreenBamaGriller said:

Whats the difference, application wise, from one of the jet burners, and a banjo type burner?

I have both a jet and a banjo burner. For frying the banjo is far more practical. It can be turned down real low and it uses a wide spread out more even flame. The jet burner uses a concentrated flame resulting in hot spots. This is a plus for boiling though. Not so much for frying. I personally do not like the banjo burner. For every adjustment that you make on the regulator, you have to compensate with a adjustment to the air shutter on the face of the Venturi. Trust me when I say that this gets aggravating real quick. If you are looking for a combination unit that does a decent job of boiling and a real good job of frying, I would then recomnend a standard high pressure cast burner that comes on most outdoor cookers. It's much easier to use on the fly than the banjo. I'm sure some like the banjo, but I do not. Again the standard high pressure cast does a much better job for frying than the jet burner,  but it lags behind the jet burner in terms of heat output for rapid boiling. Others who like the banjo may can offer more info to sway you towards it. But I do not care for it at all for the reasons stated above.

If you want a big burner you go BIG and use the one on my balloon....

Can't go wrong with any advice SGH gives out.