Cahill Chicken Fryer

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MDFraley

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If I do this correctly there should be two pics of a chicken fryer that initially led me to this site. I responded to a thread by JBPoole several weeks ago and have been trying my best to share my find with him. I know they are in Picasa so just maybe I will get lucky this first time...or make a fool of myself???

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Some question whether Lodge made these for Cahill. Seeing the lid, however, suggests Cahill reverse engineered a pattern from a Lodge lid.
 
Gabe.S said:
I had never heard of the brand when I acquired the same fryer a short while back at an estate sale, with the lid! Photos at the link below are pre-seasoning... I'm in the middle of stripping it down now, and will upload more photos when finished :)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_SlJkyTSvz8SC1ZemJ5dTZLd0k?usp=sharing
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Good find Gabe. I think that was my very first post on CIC and BTW I still have that piece. Wish I had your lid though.
I've cooked in mine several times and it holds its seasoning quiet well. Not too many of theses pieces are still around and you seldom see them listed on eBay. Good luck in your future CI hunting.
 
The Cahill Company is an interesting study. They were sold to Crane Company in 1922 and started business as Cahill Iron Works in 1875. I do not know when they started making hollow ware. I do know that the Cahill dutch oven and chicken fryer had applied handles to the lids. The Cahill corn stick pan made a rectangle corn stick with straight line corn rows on the corn stick and the Lodge was shaped like an ear of corn. I could not say who copied who. I just don't know.
 
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