Carnival King 30 lb. Liquid Propane / Field Convertible Flat Bottom Countertop Funnel Cake / Donut Fryer

Our Shriners unit bought this to cook funnel cakes and fried oreos at our rodeo events and other festivals to help raise money for our philanthropy. Yes, you can most certainly use a standard 30lb propane cylinder with a 11" WC regulator thats rated for 90-100k BTUs to run this model. You can find those regulators pretty much anywhere as 11" WC is a pretty standard pressure for most grills and appliances. Just make sure you get one for the BTU's on the fryer. 100k BTU worked great for us. Thats exactly how we use it. It holds heat PERFECTLY while cooking 6 funnel cakes at a time, constantly and non-stop. It does not have a reheat period between batches and it makes very tasty fried goods!!! We also used the 8" rings provided on this website, and it also works great for Read More

Our fair food stand owns two of these units now - one 30lb unit and one 40lb unit. We bought the 40lb one last year, and just received the 30lb version this week, which we'll use just to make fried Oreos. The 40lb unit last year did well over 1,000 funnel cakes and 5,000 fried Oreos during a 12 day event and never skipped a beat. Overall, they work well, especially given the price point. When we received the first unit, I had a difficult time lighting the pilot light - but once we got it lit the first time, it lit much easier going forward. The same thing happened with the 30lb one we just bought - probably a good five minutes of pushing the pilot button while holding a flame next to it to get it to light, but once it did, it ran without issue. We just Read More

I will never order from the company again horrible customer service. This a brand new fryer professionally installed and doesn’t work. I lite the pilot and once it La on and reaches a temperature it shuts off and have to wait til it cools to restart the process. Bad for my business on first day. The company says it only have a 30 day warranty when I ordered as my business was getting built and now it’s too late because it’s pass 30 days even though I never used the fryer, just horrible I spend too much money with this company to get treated like this.

The pilot is a problem. I’ve only had this equipment for a few months I started having problems when it would get to a proper heat level, the pilot goes out and then we cannot relight. I’m loosing sales because we cannot get it to work. I called a repair guy and he said it would be no less than $ to fix the pilot. After reading some of the other reviews, I would not recommend getting this equipment since it continues to have pilot problems and the company doesn’t seem to care.

This item is being used in a food stand to make funnel cakes.

This unit is horrible! Please don’t waste your money or your time on this. I bought the carnival king funnel maker for my first festival this past weekend and i was very disappointed. It never got hot. We had it on 400F for 4 hours & could not make one funnel cake. It actually cost me more money instead of making money. And the pilot switch was hard to push to light. I will be return this unit and expecting a full refund. It’s a cold “hot mess”. This company needs to take this off the site and revamp this and try again. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt after reading the comments hoping it was just the operators being it cost so much, but no it’s the unit itself. Plz don’t waste your money.