YouTube Live 02-17-2021: A Brief History of Birmingham Stove & Range Cast Iron Pans 

Nice.. just now getting in to cast iron..I've lived in Birmingham Alabama all my life never knew of BSR until now ! I'm 66 btw.

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BS&R employees Billy Washburn and Mike Bryan create the eight-wedge cornbread skillet, which sold 1 million in its first two years of production. It sold for $1.19 each in 1967. In the 1980s Frank Martin, Hugh Rushing, vice president of marketing for Birmingham Stove & Range, created Frank’s Handy Dan Cornstick Pan. BSR allowed employees to come in on Saturdays to work on their ideas and projects.

I just acquired a Birmingham Stove and Range Red Mountain Series 8Z skillet. It has a lot of outer surface black carbonized seasoning. I need to search your channel for best method of restoring it. Except for surface rust under the carbonized seasoning, it is in excellent condition. My wife and son (who is a chef) will be putting this BSR cast iron skillet to good use when it is finished. It will be a useful addition to the pre-1960 3 notch 8 Lodge cast iron skillet that my wife inherited from her father. Thank you for the information you provide on this channel.

This is great. My family has passed down at least one cast iron pan to every grandkid, myself included, and turns out it’s a BSR. Really good info, and it cooks like nothing else!

One of my favorites is the 40's BSR #7P skillet, right up there with my Canadian made, wood handled Findlay no. 90. These Griswold and Wagner Cadillacs of cast iron still need their Toyota Corollas, like Lodge and BSR, always getting you where you need to go reliably.. without warping on electric stoves.

BSR is new 2 me. Luv the higher sides & heat ring. Will start looking 2 add 2 my collection. I do have Mama's collection which included Wagner & Griswold. Many ppl have grown impatient not wanting up keep & moved away from C.I. Gr8 family tradition 2 send ur kids out the door with a C. I pan 2 B passed down thru the generation.

I just bought a rusty pat. pending wedge pan. I was also born in 1967, when I researched and found that out I felt a connection to it. I plan on restoring it once the weather warms up, plan on making a electrolysis tank.

57:36. It is pronounced "Deesa". It is a Danish company that makes Disamatic molding equipment. If you see a D on a Lodge pan, that was the type machine it was made on. The "H" is the Hunter molding equipment. The "C" was the cope and drag molding system. Lodge after acquiring multiple types of molding equipment, marked the patterns with a lettering system for the type of equipment the casting was made. Lodge discontinued the old cope and drag and Hunter system in the early 2000's. Now all their molding is done on Disamatic equipment.

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I have a Trout corn stick skillet/pan , that I feel is from BSR and not the newer Lodge Eddie Bauer Trout skillet from the 90s. I think I can recall seeing back in early 70's at my grandpa's basement wall.

I have a no name skillet I inherited , after lots of photo searches to find out who actually made it Im pretty sure it's a BSR...MADE IN USA and on the opposite side NO. 8 10-5/8 ( the lettering style also matches photos ive found) ...pretty sure it was purchased in the late 60s, very smooth ( I assume they were machined smooth?) I sold my newer lodge skillet after using the BSR, the smooth surface was an excellent performer and 50+ years of seasoning build up

CIC, I've two questions: 1) just like you, I like the heavier CI, but which do you think is heavier: BSR, vintage Lodge or Martin? These are my favorite brands but I don't have the same size in all three brands to compare weight. 2) which is rarer, the BSR 6 piece Cornbread Skillet or the 8 piece Cornbread Skillet. Sorry that you did break your wrist but it did result in your discussing BSR and Lodge cookware; these topics put me in hog heaven. Maybe one day, you can talk about Martin too. Again, I enjoyed learning more about BSR tonight and how they went out of business..

I bought what I believe is an unmarked favorite piqua ware, the only markings is 5 I on the bottom. The font, shape of pan and heat ring appear to be the same as Favorite. I think it will be an awesome piece once it's restored. Do you have much information on these?

Eric, thanks for another interesting, informative video. We have quite a few BSRs, from 3S to 14. We have probably 20 ash trays with the grooved handle. Almost all with an ad inside from appliance stores to hardware to gas companies. They are fascinating. Also have 2 with the deep cigarette grooves and the pointed handle. Didn't know they might also be BSR.

The most common BSR recast we have found over the past couple of years is the #7. Either that or alot of them were very poorly made. Appears to be cast the same depth of the heat ring. This make the bottom to be raised and flat. Kinda funny looking compared to other BSR irons.

Where ya goin? I'm ah goin' to Birmingham. "Why"? "I'm a goin' to buy me a stove, a range, and the pans to go with it"!

I recently bought and restored a BSR red mt. skillet. After removing it from my electrolysis tank I was surprised to see the size and mold mark had been pasted over, from the mold I presume. The skillet is neither a size 8 or a size 7 ,more a 7 and a half. Also there is a hand scribe unusual 8 on the top handle

so, after a year i had to do a rerun on this one, @14:56 ; the pan with the uneven surface [ scratchy lumps, craters and valleys] was marked, "NO. 8-B [7] 10 1/4 IN" with "MADE IN USA" at the top and a "1.." over the made in..........and it's a smaller 10 1/4" than a lodge. it was on sale and came in a set. the #3 and #5 are flat but were the first pans i ever encountered that were not glass smooth but still became fine cookers... they were wax coated, needed a clean and seasoning so that with the #8 i thought it was bad stuck on wax or bad seasoning, very confusing at the time....i seldom used that #8 for the longest time till i went at it with an avanti pro smoothing disk.....futility persisted till i recently revisited and tactically re-smoothed [60 grit] and re-seasoned it....and so at last with a perfect glass lid it works very well as a meat and brazier pan.....in honuor of "stumpy" i named her "grumpy" but upgraded to "lumpy" in light of her newly discovered usefulness....oh and i probably bought them around 1989........pretty long story huh..??..!!!....

Have you seen a BSR pan with a flat head screw head on the bottom, I have seen the Phillips head but not the flat head. Do you know the year they were made?

Someone did a nice job on your cast.

Those tiny skillets make 1 nice big cookie

I got a skillet with an 8 on the bottom and 3 notches in the ring around the edge. There is one at the 3, 9 and 12 o'clock positions. My question for you is... Can you repair a skillet like this that is cracked? The crack is 3 inches long but it does not appear to leak at all. The only time the crack is evident is when you first put heat to it.

Thannks for the video

Martin Stove & Range is far more hard to get information about!!! Perhaps not their skillet's but I haven't been able to collect any information on my Martin Stove & Range woodburning stove with 4 eye's, a 2 door oven, a biscuit warmer with a frontend firebox! The only thing I have found is that it was produced between about 1912 and 1917!!!

Great! I love to start making pizzas as well.

how about Twain Cast Iron pans, are the safe to use

Workers and others were sometimes able to purchase less than perfect factory seconds in company store. Pans not good enough to ship to stores for sale.

Can you tell me about a bread stick pan... just like cornstick, but with what ears instead of corn kernels

I have some cast iron that dose not have names on them ,2 duch ovens .number 8 looks like they used a very sharp point to make the 8 .under the 8 is D O . the lid has the tips and 10 1/4 under the 10 is an 8 and thats it. it is very heavey er than the other one . I got mine from my grandfather .he was born1903 his mother cooked in them. I have them and more.

I have a cornbread pan,shaped of playing card symbols.spade,club,diamond,and heart

I have a wedge bread pan like that.it is stamped no.8 pat.pending

I have the same tee!

Bsr is great, definitely underrated 🍳🍳 Hope you're healing well!

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After doing some research over here; www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Birmingham_Stove_and_Range (thank you for that) I find my BS&R NO.8 was made from 1968 to sometime in the 70s. Is there a date when they started stamping mold ID numbers? It looks like the one in your thumbnail. i.imgur.com/IjlUhrL.jpg i.imgur.com/53BRkD0.jpg I haven't used it today, but there's always supper. :-) I graduated high school in 1967 so, to me, this is a "new" skillet.

my wife got me a #3 century series BSR that's never been used with a Atlanta Stove Works label it sold new for 1.25 she won't tell me what she paid

i have a ashtray skillet it says wall drug wall s.dak. on it. it also has the groove for a ciggarette. is is made by bsr do you think?

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Broke arm ?