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Customer Reviews of Lodge 3-Quart Cast Iron Chicken Fryer with Iron Lid
Customer Rating:  Summary: Love it as a coffee bean roaster, not a chicken fryer Comment: I think this chicken fryer is a good idea, as is any cast iron skillet for chicken, but it's too small to fry chicken in the amounts we fry it in. It can barely fit two of our home grown chicken breasts, or three of the smaller, store-bought ones. It works well for making something like almond chicken, when it's not as important for the chicken pieces keep their distance from each other. I don't think it's necessary to have a lid to make fried chicken. Ours turns out wonderfully, cooked in a regular old huge cast iron skillet. We don't use a slow cook method (35-40 minutes, Betty Crocker, are you kidding me?), and the chicken comes out juicy, even without a lid. The reason I give this skillet five stars is that I do LOVE it for roasting green coffee beans. The high sides are very helpful... I can get almost a pound of beans roasted with my method of continuous stirring, and I hardly lose any over the sides. When it's my husband's turn to roast, he uses the lid and heavy duty oven mitts and shakes the whole pan at intervals. We both think that roasting coffee would be a real hassle without this particular pan. The oil that comes from the coffee beans makes a wonderful pan seasoning, too. We re-season all our cast iron (when we need to just re-season the bottom of the pan, not for the initial seasoning) by roasting coffee beans on the stovetop. Customer Rating: Summary: Another must have in the kitchen Comment: I have a family of 5 and we use our fryer almost weekly. Works great for bacon to keep your stove top cleaner and anything else you want to cook. Customer Rating: Summary: Great for almost anything! Comment: My mother gave me this lodge fryer (she has had for many years) and I have been happy with it for more than five years now. Incredible for making stew in, this fryer has been used for almost everything except frying chicken. Every Lodge product our family has had has lasted for as long as I can remember (I am 29 now) and requires little maintanence - a little seasoning w/ oil and heat every once in a while is all. Cooking in this fashion imparts a wonderful flavor to meats, tomatoes, breads - whatever! Forget the non-stick, $400+ cooking sets from the big boys, cast iron handles cleans very well if well-seasoned and is actually best if you don't clean it too hard. And, Lodge is made here in America, in Tennessee! Who knows where that other stuff is made? As I get older, Lodge will definitely continue to be part of my cookware collection - make them part of yours if you haven't already. Customer Rating: Summary: stove stays cleaner Comment: I like cooking bacon in this because my stove stays a lot cleaner than using my regular depth Lodge skillets. Customer Rating: Summary: the finest new chicken fryer around Comment: If I could have only one piece of stove-top this would be it! It is the most versatile piece in my kitchen. Aside from it's assigned purpose of frying chicken -- this piece is great for beans, makes a great pot of rice (thanks to that heavy lid), and bakes a great cornbread too. It weighs just right for everyday use and cleans in a snap. If you can only buy one piece of new cast-iron, make it this piece... More Reviews 10-1/4" Cast Iron Chicken Fryer With Iron Cover. 
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Kitchen tips -> Two-crust pie When making a two-crust pie, moisten the edge of the bottom crust with water before placing the second crust on top. The moistened edge will help create a good seal once the two crusts are crimped together |
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