Lodge Logic 3-Quart Covered Chicken Fryer, Black
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Lodge Logic 3-Quart Covered Chicken Fryer, Black
Customer Review: Versatile and well-made
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this one because I was looking for something to fry various things in without the pot warping (as stainless steel pots do). Since I got this pot, I have been using it to cook all sorts of dishes--soup, stew, reheating rice etc. It's big enough to hold enough fried rice, for example, for 4, and I can pop the entire pot, lid and all, into the oven to keep warm. But it's not so big as to be too heavy to handle.
The best part about this pot is how nicely the lid fits. I was surprised how tight the lid seals the pot. The steam starts to escape only when the liquid in the pot is boiling really hard. The interior of the lid is unusual looking. It is not flat nor smooth. It has a dozen small protruding tips shaped like candy cones. When steam condenses on the inside of the lid, the resulting liquid falls along those tips back into the pot, instead of dripping off the edge of the lid. Ingeneous, I thought.
I find this a very versatile and useful pot. Extremely well made--almost polished for a cast iron pot. It comes seasoned.
Customer Review: Just Old Fashioned Cooking
Summary: 5 Stars
I just love old fashioned fried chicken. The kind with crispy crust made from real flour and cooked in a seasoned fryer. The Lodge Logic is the Fryer of choice for me and has been for quite some time. Sure there are many neat new sets available but this fryer does the job perfectly each and every time. The one thing I learned early was to have a strong arm for lifting a full pan of chicken with all the grease and viddles. A helper holder would be a welcome addition but that would take away from the original version. I know the top is in place because of its heft. No sissy top for this cooker. The handle is a tad skimpy but it works well enough to get the job done well. I have not tried to cook corn bread in this pan due to its size but I would guess that corn bread would come out as well as it does in a smaller cast iron pan with the exception that this 3-quart fryer will cook a lot more of it.
Expect to use it for the rest of your life and enjoy all of its benefits. I sure have and hope the rest of my life is a long way away.
Customer Review: arrived with an underlayer of rust
Summary: 3 Stars
After a washing, this fryer appeared to have an orange coating. I was told by customer service that light brown spots were to be expected from the seasoning. I thought I had done something wrong to cause it to rust immediately but from reading the reviews of the Lodge dutch ovens by longtime cast iron cookware owners, it seems that lodge product quality has declined in recent years. The products are now made overseas now and not in Tennessee where Alton Brown visited the manufacturing facility. I always smell terrible after using it and even smell from washing it. Oh, well. At least, it wasn't terribly expensive but I'm not a great fan of the company and its product. I am rewriting this review after six months of ownership. I used it infrequently for making burgers. I recently enjoyed a Staub for a few days but I have to return it because it is chipped. At least, lodge logic doesn't have anything to chip but I wish I had one of the old products that gave cast iron its good reputation.Customer Review: If you can only have one...
Summary: 5 Stars
If you can only have one piece of cast iron in your kitchen, this would be the one. It can do duty as a skillet, soup pot, dutch oven, baking pan and flipped over works as a griddle. I have made soups, stews, spagetti sauce, roast's, bacon & eggs, omelete's, cherry & peach cobbler, hotcakes, pineapple upside down cake and of course fried chicken in this fryer. Brown your chicken in batch's then pile it all in, slap on the lid and put it in the oven (or fire) to finish. The lid has just enough lip to hold coals when baking and seals tight enough to keep debris out of the pot. I have a small round wire rack that fits in the bottom of the pan and use it to steam large crustaceans (mostly dungeness crab) with corn and potatoes. It's just the right size for a New England crab feed for two. I have a lot of cast iron cookware, but this one is the most versitile and probably the most used. Highly recommend.
Customer Review: Real measurements of the pan
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, no complaints exactly -- it's what I ordered and wanted -- but be aware of the exact dimensions of the pan. Though measured across the top the diameter of the pan is accurately 10 1/4 in., the sides slope in making the cooking surface a measly 8 in. -- kinda small of you're thinking of frying in larger batches.
I was also hoping to double this deep fryer as a frying pan (I saw the higher sides as a bonus, lessening grease splatter), but again the small 8 in. cooking surface limits what I can make ie. too small for bacon. Apparently, Lodge makes a larger fryer -- a 5qt 12" sucker -- that might be a better choice for a family, but alas, not available (currently) on Amazon.
Otherwise, a great pan, substantial and well made. The lid is a great bonus to have.