anyone have a cooking disk like this? i had a friend fabricate it a few years ago. anyone else have one they use regularly? durrelllrobert - 4-14-2013 at 04:45 PM
Is the disk made from an old plow disc?willardguy - 4-14-2013 at 05:08 PM
Id spray a non-caloric silicon-based lubricant on it and go for a new, amateur-saucer-sled land-speed record.......woody with a view - 4-14-2013 at 05:11 PM
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Originally posted by durrelllrobert
Is the disk made from an old plow disc?
si mon.Udo - 4-14-2013 at 05:24 PM
I have two different sizes of plow discs for my fryer...one that is about 24" diameter and the other is 36".
The reason for these is two-fold:
They retain a tremendous amount of heat, and the recovery of oil heat is so high that even if you put ten strips of fish into the oil, the oil only
loses about 3-5 degrees in temperature, which makes it ideal for frying lots of fish (or other things) at the same time.
The very high heat tempering of the metal actually makes it better than cast iron for cooking.
The other part that helps is having a very high heat output burner...somewhere around 40 to 50,000 BTUs.
To give you some idea of BTUs, a regular turkey deep fryer is about 25,000 BTUs.
The average restaurant stove-top burner is about 30,000 BTUs, and the very high heat burner (one that has four or five circles of flame are 50 to
60,000 BTUs, depending on how you have the burner aerated (i.e. almost no yellow in the flame top).Mexitron - 4-14-2013 at 05:27 PM
Nice rig!J.P. - 4-14-2013 at 05:53 PM
The best burner I ever found was out of a old hot water heater. the burners were made out of iron. made a bunch of fish fryers. That dish looks like a
small tank head
[Edited on 4-15-2013 by J.P.]Udo - 4-14-2013 at 06:01 PM
It is still a nice rig as home-made rigs go.
The chain holder IS a nice touch!monoloco - 4-14-2013 at 06:20 PM
Around here they use a disc from the farm implement of the same name, just have a welder fab a stand for it and fill the hole in the middle.Cypress - 4-14-2013 at 06:33 PM
Looks like the lid from an old washing mashine?dtbushpilot - 4-14-2013 at 07:11 PM
Looks to me like a rim of a wheel welded to a plow disc. Looks pretty inovative the way it would all fold up together. Pretty cool....chuckie - 4-14-2013 at 07:17 PM
It aint a "plow disc" Its a Disc....(Old Kansas farmer)....dean miller - 4-14-2013 at 08:01 PM
I have a disc which I made from a 24 inch farm disc. Not as fancy but works like a charm when high BTUS are required such as fried fish.
At one time they were the implement used by ALL fish taco fryers in Baja. I would suspect the modern world has caught up and eliminated a certain
amount of the originals.
SDMjbcoug - 4-14-2013 at 08:40 PM
Woody,
You didn't happen to have a plan or sketch of this project to work from did you?
JohnBajaboy - 4-14-2013 at 09:02 PM
I have no idea about btu's or frying temps...but I can't assure you this set-up is killer for fried fish and shrimp Curt63 - 4-14-2013 at 09:08 PM
This is what they use at a lot of the taco stands in Baja. This pic is at Tacos El Fenix in Ensenada.
Temperature is critically important. 350-360 is ideal
dtbushpilot - 4-14-2013 at 09:13 PM
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Originally posted by chuckie
It aint a "plow disc" Its a Disc....(Old Kansas farmer)....
You're right of course, my bad. You'd think I wouldn't have made a slip like that being from a town named "Farmington"...vgabndo - 4-14-2013 at 09:38 PM
This is the renewable energy model I got at the Saturday flea market in Maneadero a couple years ago. No troublesome propane hook-ups. Three rocks and
some dry Mesquite!
It hasn't been feelin' the love....
[Edited on 4-15-2013 by vgabndo]
woody with a view - 4-15-2013 at 03:31 AM
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Originally posted by jbcoug
Woody,
You didn't happen to have a plan or sketch of this project to work from did you?
John
no. a friend bought the parts and had it made in ensenada. we were gonna mass produce them but it wasn't economical. mine has only felt the love once,
and oh man was it lovely!
[Edited on 4-15-2013 by woody with a view]Curt63 - 5-14-2013 at 12:33 PM
