About Us

High Performance Cookers is based in southern Louisiana, near New Orleans. The NOLA lifestyle provides experiences in crabbing, fishing, camping, hunting, and many other outdoor adventures. Our owners and creators grew up loving the great food of the South and particularly the great seafood harvested here in Louisiana. It was out of this love that a passion grew to create the best crawfish boil cooker possible.

After achieving success with our first creation, we expanded our line with other cookers for boiling, steaming, frying, and slow cooking. We designed and built multi-use cooking products for every need! And by developing accessories for each product line, we allow our customers' purchases to go far and satisfy their every need.

Whether you’re looking to host a great sports tailgating party, feed a crowd on race day, entertain in your own backyard, or enjoy delicious food while camping at a park or beach, our seafood stock pots, boiling pots, and outdoor burners ensure that you’re always ready and able to deliver that great southern Louisiana cooking.

Overcoming Obstacles With Innovative Designs

Our product designer spent years creating energy-efficient, high-performance crawfish boil pots and restaurant cookware. The goal was to develop the next generation of top-tier seafood boilers for commercial and consumer seafood boiling industries.

Problem: High Fuel Waste & Long Boil Times

Today’s commercial seafood boilers average in size between 40 and 150 Gallons. Heating large amounts of water has always required large amounts of fuel and high-powered jet burners to bring the water to a boil. For example, a common 100-gallon pot can cook 200 pounds of crawfish. To boil this much crawfish in this pot, you would start with 50 gallons of water and bring it to a boil. Traditional boiling pots like this take about 45 minutes to come to a boil using approximately 5 gallons of propane. With a propane cost of $4 per gallon, you're spending around $20 for every 200 pounds of crawfish cooked.

The larger the pot, the longer it takes to come to a boil, and the wimpier the boil gets.

Problem: A Long, Weak Return-to-Boil

However, the biggest problem is the return-to-boil time after the crawfish are poured into the pot. The return boil on the 100-gallon pot is around 25 minutes, and the boil is so soft it looks more like bubbling mud in Yellowstone National Park! These traditional pots cook more like crock pots, and the result is mushy, overcooked crawfish.

This problem has plagued the seafood boiling industry for years. The common idea was to build bigger burners to bring the water to a boil faster. This helped a little bit, but it just drove up the fuel cost, and the heat around the pot was intolerable and unsafe. The problem has always been the pot, not the burner.

The inventor proved this with the invention of the Cajun Rocket Pot in 2010. This pot design absorbs nearly twice as much heat from the burner than a traditional boiling pot. As a result, the cooking time is cut roughly in half when using the same burner.

Our Solution Saves You Time & Fuel

A close friend in the restaurant business asked us to design the next generation of high-performance seafood boilers for his restaurant in Lafayette, Louisiana. Our patented Tunnel Tube Technology is the result of that effort. The Tunnel Tube design has nearly 4x the absorption rate of a traditional boiling pot, making it extremely efficient. The 100-gallon High Performance Cooker, with 50 gallons of water, comes to a boil in about 10 minutes. With 200 pounds of crawfish added to the pot, the return-to-boil time is under 5 minutes, with an intense boil. The fuel usage is approximately 1.5 gallons of propane to boil 200 pounds of crawfish. Not only does this level of performance ensure perfectly cooked crawfish, but the savings in time and fuel will pay for this pot every time you use it.

Simply put, High Performance Cookers are a super green product and a game-changer for the commercial seafood boiling industry and casual cooks alike.

Learn more here: Why Buy a High Performance Cooker?