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Very nice Deepcreekicer & shermanpup, gives you the option to not be directly over the heat, I don't know if anyone else has noticed(I have gamelot's version,Great Idea!), but I think sometimes, it is too hot right above the heater, have to pay close attention not to burn food, I was thinking of making some sort of rack/tray to hook on somehow to sit in front of heat to heat things up a little slower, back to the lab for a prototype. Smitty
Nice one Smitty, Converts from a grill to a toaster!I guess we have to wonder of Mr. Heater is even looking at this thread and any of our modifications.With just a few minor changes in the guard cage design they could easily make the heater ready for some food reheating if they had a mind to.With the one exception of dripping grease and food on the face of the element I can't think of any safety issue that might concern them.I have seen Buddy heaters with broken ceramic grids from splashing water hitting them or from being dropped. I would also caution everyone who modifies his heater to never, ever leave food on it while out of the shanty. Burning your hut out on the ice would have to go down as one really dumb thing to do.I did see one guy on the ice with a pretty strange looking pair of boots. He melted the soles when he fell asleep with his feet in front of the heater. I did that years ago at a camp fire and messed up a nice pair of boots.
I think I found a quick solution to my problem for cooking food a little slower. It's kind of a convertible.Fast Heating(Image removed from quote.)Slower Heating(Image removed from quote.)Now my sandwiches won't burn so fast.....I think, going to try it today. Smitty
drill out the small hole on the pol end of the hose (where it hooks to the 5 - 100lb tank) (Image removed from quote.) allow more propane flow thru the hose to the built in regulator thus allowing quicker start up and if you had issues with running it on high without it going out now there is a mod that works too
On further testing today out on ice, it didn't seem to heat my grilled cheese sandwiches very good, kinda hard to figure out, I hold my hand in front of heater and I can't keep it there, I gave em' 15 minutes or so in front(directly leaning on the heat shield on front of heater) and they were not even warm(wrapped in aluminum foil), I would of thought that would have been plenty of time to heat em up....weird. So I placed em on top to heat them up...burning my toast some. Back to the drawing board I guess. Smitty
Yea Smitty, I kind of thought that might be the result. Tin foil reflects the heat away and back toward the heater. It might get hot on the face but the opposite side is staying cold. I do sandwiches up on top and just flip them a bunch of times till they get warmed up enough with out burning.
Dull side out and shiney side in when reheating with aluminum foil!!!Just the oppsite of the brain wave hats doncha yanno!!!
Uh... yeah, my brother the "Genius" did this to a table top portable grill... the ones with the 1 lb. tank. Shot that dang grill across the yard like a rocket and set himself onfire in the afterburn... I would NOT recommend doing this mod!!!