Review on 3 Quart Cast Iron Chicken Fryer By Stansport - Perfect For Camping And Outdoor Cooking by Raj Mazzabufi

I took a chance on this, but as the other reviewer noted, this is a 3 quart fryer, not 6 quart. Aside from the size, the pan and lid I received were terrible. Both were badly cast (lid edge uneven, metal thicker in some spots than others), there was a gouge in the inside bottom of the pot and a divot in the lid, plus cardboard and gunge stuck to the outside of the lid and pan. Worst of all, was the exceedingly poor quality of the interior finish and the "pre-seasoning". As far as I can tell, this pot was coated in tallow or some other sort of wax, to give the illusion of a smoother interior finish and was NOT properly pre-seasoned OR finished inside - I couldn't even begin to remove the wax (I tried) and there is no way I would want to ingest it. And despite the weird coating, there was still some rust on the inside of the pot. Additionally there were tons of little metal particles inside the pan. I tried wiping them out but the interior of the pan seems to be deeply coated with them. There is just no way that this could possibly be safe to cook in. This pan was made in China, clearly with little to no quality control. I also suspect the metal used is some sort of weird alloy and not proper cast iron (or the worst quality cast iron ever) - just didn't look right and weight didn't seem right and seemed brittle. I had originally rejected buying a Lodge chicken fryer because I thought the interior finish on it was too rough, but the Lodge was a thousand times better than this piece of garbage. Returned.