"J.Lef" wrote in message
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Hello to all:
The better half wants(needs) a new range.
She says she needs more btus.
Our existing old school burners are all 9100 btus,
The one she is looking at has five burners, but the highest one will
be 17,000 btu.
The question I have, is how do btu,s rate against one another.
In other words is a 17,000 btu burner, almost twice as strong as a
9100, or is there some geometric progression, or regression in the
numbers. Same as with the less intense burners that come with this model.
Does it correlate strictly straight ahead.
Thanks for responding to this message.

BTUs (British Thermal Units) are a unit of heat measurement. A 4000 BTU
burner puts out twice as much heat as a 2000 BTU burner for the same type of
fuel. Of course, it burns twice as much fuel too, so be sure to consider
that.