Chicken Pans

[gt]

I’ve picked up a couple of chicken pans lately and I’m wondering how these pans were advertised.  For example, were they meant for frying chicken and if so what do they have over a regular skillet?  

Thanks Gary

[Ed Allspaugh]

I have seen them advertised as deep skillets, chicken pan/fryer, dutch oven skillets. The only advantage I see is the dedth of the skillet. You can get more oil in it and it cuts down on the splatter some what. A dutch oven works well for this also. Oh yeah, Hushpuppies cook well in these too.  

[Jerry Cermack]

I have seen them advertised as deep skillets, chicken pan/fryer, dutch oven skillets. The only advantage I see is the dedth of the skillet. You can get more oil in it  

I agree with ED.  They are deeper to hold more oil ....almost like a deep fryer so chicken battered wont stick to the bottom as bad.  I dont know about other brands, but Griswold actually put the name Chicken Pan on the bottom of some deep skillets.

[gt]

Thanks Ed and Jerry for the info.  I guess chicken pan was just another name for a deep skillet.  I’ve been cleaning the one below and wondering if the big markings were for basting like others have rings and etc.  From the outside, it looks like a pretty plain pan but is marked really nice inside.  

Gary

[C. Perry Rapier]

Gary, that is a very nice looking pan and lid. At first it looked like the lettering was on the top of the lid and you were looking at the top of the lid in the picture, but after what you said and looking at it again it appears to be some kind of illusion because in the picture you can't see the curve on the inside of the lid. Did you use electro to clean it up, however you did, it sure looks nice? Thanks for sharing it. What size is it?

[Roger Barfield]

Gary, that is a great pan, and what I would call a chicken fryer.  The writing on the inside of the lid is desinged to act as a place for the juices to drip.  I don't have one of these, but always thought they looked cool.  Great photos. ;)

[gt]

The pan is a number 8 and I did electro clean it followed by wire brushing.  Now that I look at the picture, the lid does look inverted but the inside is what's shown.  Maybe  tomorrow I'll try to replace the picture with one showing the lid like it should be.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Gary, that is a great pan, and what I would call a chicken fryer.  The writing on the inside of the lid is desinged to act as a place for the juices to drip.  I don't have one of these, but always thought they looked cool.  Great photos. ;)

Roger, is this true? It sounds good if its not. I know a lot of makers had various designs on the underside to do just that, make things drip. But I never heard of the lettering doing double duty, but its a good idea, but those letters are a real pain to clean if you got one like this as a user. Me, for users, I like the Griswold easy clean underside for dutch oven lids, but I don't know if they made that surface underside for skillets or not, if there was I have never seen, the ones I've seen have been bare cast iron.

[Roger Barfield]

Perry, I read that or saw that here on the forum at one point or another.  I've slept since then and don't remember the specifics.  If you think about it, the basting tits or whatever you call them are just raised surfaces for moisture to condensate and drip.  The writing you see on this lid is that way, so they would have to act in that manner.  It also has the lips around the edges to keep it from sliding off the skillet.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Roger, all of what you say makes sense to me.

[gt]

There, I changed the picture so it at least looks like the inside of a lid.

[Thomas_Callaway]

There, I changed the picture so it at least looks like the inside of a lid.

Can I have it for the WAGS web site?

TC

[gt]

Sure T.C. - you can have any pictures I post.

Thanks Gary