Introduction
BSR Red Mountain Chicken Fryer is a video where I share a resent purchase that I made of a BSR Red Mountain Chicken Fryer with a fancy divided handle cover. I also share a little bit on telling the difference between the Red Mountain and the Century Series pieces.
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Video
Hey everyone: this is steven stron at castron cookware, where you can find information, help you better collect, restore and use cast iron cookware.
Today I want to share a recent find of mine, and that is this number eight red mountain chicken fryer with the fancy divided handle and I'm going to be doing that coming right up before we get started.
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So, let's get on into the video okay.
Now this here is a recent purchase of mine and it is a birmingham, stove and range red mountain series, chicken fryer- and it also has the fancy divided handle.
Now.
This is not a high dome.
This is a standard dome and I also have really cool marking right here.
It's an underline, eight hand scribed with a dot underneath it's kind of interesting, unique, and I like it a lot now.
Another interesting fact is the difference between the red mountain skillet and dutch oven.
Chicken fryer covers compared to the century series.
If you notice the century series has the the size letter has the size marking in the center and if you notice, the little dimples radiate in a nice straight outward pattern, as opposed to the red mountain that is just random, just kind of every which way some are really close.
Some are further apart totally random.
Here's another one red mountain, totally random, just as well as this one right here now here is a lid red mounted number eight lid, that's not the fancy divided handle when they get them together.
This is the standard handle for the century and the red mountain as compared to the divided, which is a little fatter on one side than it is on the other.
You can't hardly see it, but it's got a 8 and an a mole mark another interesting little bit of information when it comes to birmingham all of their skillet covers dutch oven covers and chicken fryer covers all have four spout covers and they work interchangeably.
They work on.
The skillets here is a number eight skillet and this red mountain skillet cover works on it as well, just as it works on the chicken wire and also for a dutch oven.
If you notice a lot of them, especially the century series will have this nice little hump right.
There not really sure, not really sure how that worked in the foundry, like the red mountain series, doesn't have the the hump as dominant now.
Here we have a century series, dutch oven, and so we got the the pour spout on one side and a tab.
On the other side, that's indicative of birmingham stove and range, but that makes it where the skillet covers work perfectly on the dutch ovens, because it covers the one pour spout on one side and the tab on the other side.
So let's go back to the things that makes this red mountain versus century.
The red mountain series of birmingham stove and range ran from 1930 ish up until 1950-ish, because even though the century series started in the 1950s, the red mountain had a little bit of overlap on these centuries, so there for a little while they were running both of them down the line at the same time or kind of really hard to recognize some of the red mountain pieces even got these century series labels stuck on them, because at that point everything was considered century series, even though it came out of a red mountain mold, that's a little cloudy gray area that happened during the transition period.
Let's take a look at the bottom of a red mountain chicken fryer.
Now what makes this a chicken fryer? It is really deep compared to a skillet.
Now here we have a skillet.
This is the the height of the skillet compared to the chicken fryer.
Now the skillet is, you know, standard chicken fire is a little deeper.
So, on the back, we have a hand scribed eight d, eight is the size and d is the mold mark and we have a little dot right in between which is really cool as a comparison with the 8 d on the bottom of the red mountain.
Here we have the size description and on the later ones, you'll see made in usa, even though this one came with a split fancy handle the regular red mountain number, eight will fit on it perfectly, so they will interchange.
The sizes are the same same goes with the skillet.
If you notice it has a little bit of a leaning back sort of this direction, and you can kind of see it from the top it's a little bit crooked, but that's fine.
It's still fancy.
Also the regular red mountain skillet cover works on the red mountain skillet as well.
Now some of the red mountain covers will work on the century series, but there were a few size differences as time went on with the century series.
So some of the lids from the earlier century series will not fit as well on the later century series, but I was really excited about this little guy right here and I just recently purchased it.
I got it from a friend, nearby and red mountain and something else interesting about the chicken fryers.
The chicken fryers never had a heat ring on, like you had on the skillets, and also the dutch ovens did not have a heat ring, so you got chicken fries and dutch ovens all smooth bottom.
Even in the red mountain era, the century series also the same way century series, dutch ovens and century series.
Chicken fries are smooth bottoms.
There are a series of smooth bottom skillets that are contested to be birmingham stolen range.
It's still unknown they're, getting more and more traction on the internet.
People are really collecting them and they're picking them up everywhere and there's a three a four there's, a s series all the way up until you know 14 smooth bottom skillets, the consensus is they're, not birmingham, stove and range, even though nobody has any real facts there, because they can't be proven to be bsr or not bsr.
All we know is some of the people who worked in the factory said they did not make a smooth bottom skillet other than that we don't know.
So it's still up in there until we see a catalog or something with those in it, there's not going to be any surety.
I was excited about this piece and I just wanted to share it and I hope that you've enjoyed it as well got something out of it and if you have please don't forget to subscribe, hit that notification bell and I promise I'll keep more coming.
I just want to say thank you again for watching cast iron cookware before you go I'd like to share something with you really quickly in revelations chapter 21, verse, 4, it says, and god shall wipe away all their tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying.
Neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away.
I just want to say, share the word and be a blessing.
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