Electric burner for pressure canning

Hello, my glass stovetop is proving problematic for my 23 qt Presto pressure canner. I think I would like to have a portable electric burner for my counter top. We tried a propane burner. WAY too scary! The challenge is my fully loaded canner can weigh 52 lbs.
Rebecca

Welcome to Permies!

I wanna know too!

Unfortunately, most pressure canners don’t work with induction burners. And it is really hard to find a stand alone 120v burner with enough umph to get a big canner up to temp. A regular outlet is limited to about 1800 watts which is ~6000 btu or barely medium on your range burner at best.

Do you have a 240 outlet available somewhere? Like a dryer in the garage?  Then you could get a cheap used electric stove and swap plugs with the dryer.

Another option is a smaller propane burner, like a good Coleman style camp stove. The cheap ones are only 8000 btu but the better ones are 12-15,000 (same as a high end gas range) and have good simmer control. Turkey fryers often won’t run below 20,000-so, yeah, that’s a little too exciting.

The other great thing about a camp stove is you can run it on a low platform so the top of the canner isn’t too tall to load and unload. The cheaper aluminum work platform/step stools from Home Depot work well.

I have an electric burner that could work, but it has only one temp, high. Can't turn it down.

So if you are looking, make sure it's both hot enough like R Scott said, AND can be turned down too.
I tend to do stuff to fake mine down that I'd NOT do with a canner. Don't fake it.

Thanks a million guys! Now I know how to continue my search.

We have a 1500W 120V Cadco KR-S2 hotplate, made in Germany that is restaurant grade. Cost about $120 a few years ago. It works great with our steam canner and should do fine with a pressure canner as well. The old $20, 900W hotplates took forever to get hot enough and the dials failed on 3 of them before we got the better unit.

Here's one from Amazon. It has cast iron heat element that is only 7 1/2 in diameter. AND:

 It has a maximum load capacity of 15 pounds, making it suitable for small to large pots and pans.

Well that sucks.