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You don't need to know your propane cost per boil — nobody does. Tell us what you run on, how much you cook, and how often. We'll estimate the hours and fuel dollars an HPC commercial boiler could put back in your pocket.

2″ Gate Valve
On every commercial unit
3/16″ Aluminum
Heavy-duty, built in Louisiana
2-Year Warranty
Commercial coverage
2–5 Day Lead Time
Custom-built to order
600 lbs
What that looks like:
Crawfish
~20 sacks
Shrimp
~690 lbs
Crab legs
~750 lbs
Whole crabs
~510 lbs
Whole lobster
~540 lbs
Rough equivalents — same pot, different seafood.
Built in Louisiana · 2-year commercial warranty
Custom-built to order in 2–5 business days
Your estimated numbers
Recommended for your volume
80 Gal Commercial Cooker
handles your day in 3 batches
Pot size
Estimated fuel savings per season
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over a 26-week season at your volume
Fuel savings / week
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at 3 boil days a week
Crew-hours saved / boil day
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est. –
Fuel per boil day
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est., propane
Typical pot & jet burner vs. HPC 80 Gal
Typical figures are averages our commercial customers reported for standard pot-and-burner setups.
MetricTypical setupHPC 80 Gal
Lbs per batch~90 lbs205 lbs
Time per batch*~55 min~25 min
Batches to finish your day73
Fuel per day (est.)20.3 gal4.7 gal
Crew time per day (est.)*6.4 hrs1.3 hrs
*These estimations do not include soak times.
from $3,650 · gantry lift basket · built to order in 2–5 business days
Real customers report similar or better: Lefort's Seafood cut propane from 20 to 10 gal/day. All Star Catering cut usage ~75%.
How we calculate this (methodology & assumptions)

We keep the math conservative and out in the open:

  • Your current setup is modeled as a typical pot + jet burner: ~90 lbs per batch, ~55 minutes per batch, ~2.9 gallons of propane per batch. Those figures come from before-data reported by real HPC commercial customers in phone interviews (August 2026).
  • HPC propane per boil uses published data for the 40 Gal (boils 20 gal of water in under 8 minutes on less than 1 gallon of propane) and 140 Gal (75 gal of water in under 15 minutes on 2.6 gallons). The 60, 80, 100 and 120 Gal figures are interpolated linearly between those two published points.
  • HPC batch time is set at ~25 minutes, based on customer-reported results (Lefort's Seafood: 240 lbs in 25 minutes; All Star Catering: 20–30 minute batches).
  • Natural gas is converted at 1 gallon of propane ≈ 0.915 therms, priced at an assumed $1.40 per therm. Natural gas matches propane speed only with 2-lb commercial gas service.
  • Fuel price assumes $3.25/gal propane (LA-area average). Adjust mentally if your price differs.
  • Season assumes a 26-week Jan–June crawfish season.
  • Time figures are total pot-attended crew-hours. If you run several pots or burners in parallel today, your wall-clock day looks different — but the crew time tending those pots is the same.
  • Seafood equivalents are rough pot-capacity conversions relative to crawfish.
  • Customer-reported figures are individual results, not guarantees. Every dollar figure on this page is an estimate.
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Every HPC commercial cooker is custom-built to order in Covington, Louisiana, with a 2–5 business day lead time. Stephen will help you size it right the first time.

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⚠️ WARNING: Since all of our products connect to propane tanks, they can expose you to chemicals including carbon monoxide and lead, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, visit P65Warnings.ca.gov.