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woody with a view
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Disca para pesca fritas
anyone have a cooking disk like this? i had a friend fabricate it a few years ago. anyone else have one they use regularly?
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durrelllrobert
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Is the disk made from an old plow disc?
Bob Durrell
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willardguy
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Id spray a non-caloric silicon-based lubricant on it and go for a new, amateur-saucer-sled land-speed record.......
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woody with a view
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
Is the disk made from an old plow disc? |
si mon.
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Udo
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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).
Udo
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Mexitron
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Nice rig!
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J.P.
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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.]
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Udo
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It is still a nice rig as home-made rigs go.
The chain holder IS a nice touch!
Udo
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monoloco
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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.
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Cypress
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Looks like the lid from an old washing mashine?
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dtbushpilot
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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....
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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chuckie
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It aint a "plow disc" Its a Disc....(Old Kansas farmer)....
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dean miller
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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.
SDM
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jbcoug
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Woody,
You didn't happen to have a plan or sketch of this project to work from did you?
John
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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
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Curt63
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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
No worries
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dtbushpilot
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| Quote: | 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"...
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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]
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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woody with a view
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| Quote: | 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]
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Curt63
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Yep, I love the Disca!
No worries
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