Heater/Cooker and flames

[HNTNBUX]

For every problem others have with the big buddy heater I seem to have problems with the heater/cookery. I recently switched from a Coleman one burner stove after going through two of them in two years to the heater/cookery again. Recently while boiling water for my lunch with one pound tank attached first time the cookery would not shut off until I removed the tank. The next time flames were going through the tube towards the heating element. Almost the whole heater turned orange before I saw it under the pot and again I had to remove the tank to stop the flames. Is there a quick fix or is this junk after two uses? I bought this thing for cooking and back up for the big buddy which is still going strong.

[HNTNBUX]

I guess the spell correction on my phone likes cookery better cooker.

[Fishinguy40]

BE CAREFUL removing your propane bottle when it does that because it sounds like your valve may be freezing up.

I had a similar incident a couple years ago with a heater/cooker. When I removed the one pound propane bottle, propane continued to exit the bottle via the valve and I was engulfed in a fireball. Luckily my wife was smart enough to get out of the porty before I did this and had the door flap opened, so I threw the whole unit out onto the ice.

Singed some hair on my hands and brows but luckily that was it.

[crappiegetter]

The heater cooker I have been using for 5 years now works great but I recently bought another for the cold days fishing and I have had the same issue. Although I was not using it to cook on it still had flames in the tube.