Thread: BBQs On Natural Gas.

In any given burner size, LPG (propane) will give off more heat than Natural gas. Some top class chef's insist on a lpg cooktop. One reason they do is that propane is refined to a standard & that is consistant wherever you are in the world. Natural gas will vary. The stuff out of the NW shelf is different to that from Bass strait, but in a burner it's hard to pick.
Your sausages may take longer to cook - let us know

Originally Posted by weeds

quality,.........you might get away with it on a bbq but em pretty sure it creates havoc with heaters

my uncle use to have an adaptor converted the pump hose at a servo to POL fitting and fill his cylinders at the servo.........crazy

Auto gas lpg is designed to be removed from the tank as a liquid. If you remove it as a vapour in a bbq the proportion of propane to butane reduces until it is nearly all butane. This burns much richer with a yellow flame and soot, lotsa soot, causes lots of CO so a death trap indoors. Also the flame nearly goes out when you are trying to cook dinner in a frosty campsite (been there). Place called SupaGas sells propane as auto gas, that would be alright.

When it boils (or Burns) down to it, it will take 2 goes to work out whether it is too hot or not hot enough. I have had a NatGas barbie for years and it worked great. You only cook on it till the food is done and then you turn it off. Unless you are trying to cook for a whole boy scout jamboree you shouldn't take much more than 1/2 hour to do dinner and I would be surprised if this would generate enough excess heat to cause trouble with the installation. I have had to convert the exact same bbq to LPG due to having moved house and I'll be buggered if I can notice much, if any, difference in the way the barbie cooks and I have had plenty of commercial experience previously
Brett