Author Topic: Largest deep skillet/chicken fryer (Read 14922 times)

Ellis Morehead · « **on:** February 22, 2005, 12:41:48 PM »

What, if any, were the largest deep skillets/chicken fryers made?

Daughter is looking for something larger than the standard or common #8.

Cheers, Ellis

Roger Barfield · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2005, 01:05:44 PM »

I have a number 9, I'm not sure if there were larger ones.

Jenny Schwartz · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2005, 02:18:09 PM »

I am pretty sure that we have a deep Griswold #10. Will can verify it for me, I think we got it on a BIN.

Paul Beer · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2005, 02:39:49 PM »

Ellis, tell her to use a large dutch oven ...they work great and hold the grease spaltters down.

Clark Rader · « **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2005, 09:08:49 AM »

Ellis I have a #9 s/Griswold Erie 733 and a #10 "Erie"734. that is about as big as you should go on a regular stove top burner. I don't think that thay have lids for these sk? You may have to go to Wagnerware for sk w/lids. Now just for the oven a nice Wagner Cake Pan (baking pan) blue book page# 264, there are more than 2 sizes out there. Nothing better than cast iron and chicken.
clark

Thomas_Callaway · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2005, 12:15:39 PM »

A regular #9 lid will fit a #9 p/n 778 Deep Skillet as is so with the #8 lid and the p/n 777, so I presume a #10 lid will fit the #10 Deep Skillet p/n 779.

I believe I have gleaned from this discussion that Griswold didn't make lids for the p/n 732, 733 & 734. Or rather they didn't make the skillets to fit the lids.

TC - Who is looking for a 779

Jenny Schwartz · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2005, 01:03:10 PM »

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A regular #9 lid will fit a #9 p/n 778 Deep Skillet as is so with the #8 lid and the p/n 777, so I presume a #10 lid will fit the #10 Deep Skillet p/n 779.

We have a deep #10 skillet and the #10 lid fits it.

Paul Beer · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2005, 06:36:16 PM »

Ellis, what about this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=976&item=6157160174&rd=1

Ellis Morehead · « **Reply #8 on:** February 23, 2005, 07:26:05 PM »

Thanks all for the suggestions. Are we talking a large increase in size from the #8 vs. the #9/#10?

Paul, thanks for the referral. I think that is more what she is looking for, though I have email the seller as to the depth of the skillet.

I see shipping is $25 regardless of destination. Seems a little pricy from CA to WA, however when you think of a #12, perhaps it is quite reasonable.

Thanks again to all,

Cheers, Ellis

Paul Beer · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2005, 08:07:34 PM »

Youre welcome Ellis, and Yeah that is awful pricey on the shipping. 12 bucks more like it. I still think if she is wanting to just do a bunch of chicken that a # 10 dutch oven is a better buy and user. I use one for all kinds of frying and deep frying.

C. B. Williams · « **Reply #10 on:** February 23, 2005, 11:16:09 PM »

I got to agree Paul. The way I look at it, you either need a shallow vessel for convenience if it serves the purpose, ie. a skillet, or you need a deep vessel for frying. The oil should never come much over half way because of expansion when the food to be fryed is put in the hot oil. The deep skillet, which is about half way between the two, it not perfect for either. The dutch oven filled about half is perfect for deep frying. Just an opinion.

C. Perry Rapier · « **Reply #11 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:49:07 AM »

C.B., you and Pauls factual approach is killin me. Stop that! I would like to have a 10 deep skillet just for the L of it. I already got an 8 deep skillet and a 9 double chrome or nickel, I don't remember which, whatever the Griswold 90 is, but would like to still have a 10 if I find one that I can't live without.

Duke Gilleland · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2005, 06:15:01 AM »

Shipping not too bad when you consider Lodge gets about $35.00 :o including shipping for that lid alone these days...

C. B. Williams · « **Reply #13 on:** February 24, 2005, 06:54:31 AM »

Perry: I didn't say that I didn't have any deep skillets. I have a chrome one with the labels still attached to both it and the top, and the box it was shipped in. And a couple more in iron. But, I want to point out what I was saying. A dutch oven will do the same job of frying that a deep skillet will and a whole lot more. The deep skillet will not do all the jobs a D/O will. Duke: Lodge might ought to look at going into the shipping business at $35 per lid, from what I have seen, they are making a mess out of the cast iron business these days. C B

C. Perry Rapier · « **Reply #14 on:** February 24, 2005, 01:43:11 PM »

C.B. I hear what you are saying, and it makes a lot of sense. I'm just givin you a hard time. In fact, I have the bottom from a number 8 Wagner Dutch Oven that I do the same thing in. Don't know why I have never used a 10 as you say. You don't have a number 10 deep that you want to sell do you? I would really like to have an "ERIE" number 10 deep. They are my favorite skillets. Clean, straight, smooth, finely finished, good detail. Like holding a nice well balanced pistol.

C. B. Williams · « **Reply #15 on:** February 24, 2005, 04:01:50 PM »

Perry: Well I'll be d***, now we got something else in common. C B

C. Perry Rapier · « **Reply #16 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:04:09 PM »

C.B., do you mean the pistols, the "ERIE" or both?

C. B. Williams · « **Reply #17 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:50:31 PM »

Perry: pistols. C B

Mark Ritter · « **Reply #18 on:** February 25, 2005, 12:36:21 AM »

Now you have my interest, are you shooters

C. Perry Rapier · « **Reply #19 on:** February 25, 2005, 11:28:33 AM »

I do not remember not having a gun. I grew up with them. My father was a hunter. I mean a real hunter. I was a child in Ky. work was bad. We had no electricity, no running water indoors. My mother canned or cold paced what we ate. My father hunted for food, rabbits, quail, squirrel, chickens, pheasant, grouse. whatever. I killed 42 squirrels this year myself. I don't know if I would say I am a shooter but I have guns, like to shoot them, and hunt some. But, not as much as I would like to.

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