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To ask how you make a chip butty?

142 replies

DebateWithMoi · 02/09/2024 21:03

Mine is a white bread bap, butter, salt, vinegar, chips and ketchup. All sorts of rubbish being spouted in my office earlier about salad cream, beans, toasted brioche! How do you do it?

Yanbu- your way is the way
Yabu- there's another way ( enlighten me )

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GargoylesofBeelzebub · 02/09/2024 23:57

Forestcantrun · 02/09/2024 22:55

White bread. I like two individual slices to fold.
A layer of real Irish salted butter. None of that crap from a tub.
Liberal helping of fat chips, already salted and vinegared, fold slice and serve with a roasting hot cup of tea.
bonus points if the butter melts and runs down your hand.

Same as how I like a fish finger sandwich except I substitute the chips with fishfingers🤣🤣

This is the way.

hulahooper2 · 02/09/2024 23:56

white bread or roll , butter , chips , salt & vinegar

Jaxhog · 02/09/2024 23:28

That is the classic way, although I prefer wholemeal bread slices and mayo, rather ketchup.

Hollowvoice · 02/09/2024 23:09

White bread, well buttered
Chips, well salted and vinegared (or drizzled with ketchup if no suitable vinegar)
Key thing is to build it a few minutes before eating so the butter starts to melt...

Justleaveitblankthen · 02/09/2024 23:00

Barm cakes here in Lancashire 😋
No matter: sliced bread, butter... and HP sauce 😶‍🌫️

ExitPursuedByABare · 02/09/2024 22:57

White Warbies
Salted butter
Chips
Salt
Vinegar

Summertimer · 02/09/2024 22:56

Not something I ever make unless at a chip shop cafe that offers bread a butter/ buttered bap. I tend to just stuff a few chips in the bread and do a fold over. A modicum of vinegar or lemon might be involved

Forestcantrun · 02/09/2024 22:55

White bread. I like two individual slices to fold.
A layer of real Irish salted butter. None of that crap from a tub.
Liberal helping of fat chips, already salted and vinegared, fold slice and serve with a roasting hot cup of tea.
bonus points if the butter melts and runs down your hand.

Same as how I like a fish finger sandwich except I substitute the chips with fishfingers🤣🤣

EveryDayisFriday · 02/09/2024 22:53

A chippy I used to work in added salad to a buttered barm loaded on top with salt and vingared chippy chips. Sounds wrong but it was pretty delicious. Felt "healthy" even though it obviously wasn't.

GigiAnnna · 02/09/2024 22:52

If it's from the chippy, it's a buttered barm with chips. If I make it at home it's just 2 slices of buttered bread, with or without tomato ketchup.

Dartmoorcheffy · 02/09/2024 22:50

Oh this is making me want a proper chip butty right now.

It's gotta be proper freshly cooked in a fryer chips, none of your mccains or other frozen crap. Warburtons toasties, proper butter, decent sea salt, and vinegar. And maybe an egg on the side or a pot of gravy to dip.

I'm from the north West, chip butties and barms were a staple part of my diet as a teen.

Close runner up is a mash and white cabbage butty. No vinegar but lots of butter and white pepper.

BeachHutsAndDeckchairs · 02/09/2024 22:49

Soft white bread cake - a massive one if possible, like a scuffler - with a thick layer of butter on. Chips in, salt on, press the halves of the butty together and there you go. Vinegar etc only makes the chips soggy and horrible so you don't need them.

Nicebloomers · 02/09/2024 22:45

Zoflorabore · 02/09/2024 21:31

It’s a barm in Liverpool but hey ho!

mine is white sliced bread, proper butter. Loads of salt and vinegar. Nothing more, nothing less.

This.

no to ketchup. It’s the devil’s condiment.

Wigtopia · 02/09/2024 22:43

almost same as OP, but minus ketchup, and replacing the bap for slices of crusty home made bread

Noseybookworm · 02/09/2024 22:41

White sliced bread, butter, chips, salt. Perfect!

ilovepixie · 02/09/2024 22:34

Sliced white bread. Hovis if possible. Proper butter and salt and vinegar on the chips.

afaloren · 02/09/2024 22:25

White sliced plastic bread (I prefer Warburton’s blue), salted butter, chips, ketchup for dipping. I make fish finger sandwiches the same way.

Vergeofbreakdown23 · 02/09/2024 22:21

pengymum · 02/09/2024 22:07

Chip butty: 1 slice white bread, thickly buttered! Chips, salted & vinegared , loaded in and then fold over slice and take a delicious buttery bite! Sometimes I'll put ketchup, mayo and a drizzle of HP but usually that's for the 2nd butty. 1st one is savoured in the pure form! 😋

But I take your chip butty & raise you: a fried egg sandwich!

TWO slices of thickly buttered white bread, hot fried egg - set white, slightly runny yolk! Salt & pepper to taste, smidge of ketchup & drizzle of HP.

Cut into triangles and dig in!
😘

Perfect comfort food!

Ooh just seen someone's brought in the crisp sandwich!
Again 1 white slice, thickly buttered filled with cheese & onion crisps! Fold & enjoy! Mmmmm!

Edited to note: ALWAYS fat fried chips!
French fries do not qualify!

Edited

Oh now we're talking - fried egg, runny yolk salt n pepper between two slices of bread and proper butter 😋
I'm starting to realise why I might have a little weight problem 🤣🤣🤣

thefamous5 · 02/09/2024 22:16

One slice of warburtons toastie bread
Loadsa proper butter so it drips off as the hot chips go on
Chippy chips with loadsa salt and vinegar
Fold the bread in half

Mellowautumnmists · 02/09/2024 22:07

White bread, thick butter, chip shop chips, salt and HP sauce! I want one now!

pengymum · 02/09/2024 22:07

Chip butty: 1 slice white bread, thickly buttered! Chips, salted & vinegared , loaded in and then fold over slice and take a delicious buttery bite! Sometimes I'll put ketchup, mayo and a drizzle of HP but usually that's for the 2nd butty. 1st one is savoured in the pure form! 😋

But I take your chip butty & raise you: a fried egg sandwich!

TWO slices of thickly buttered white bread, hot fried egg - set white, slightly runny yolk! Salt & pepper to taste, smidge of ketchup & drizzle of HP.

Cut into triangles and dig in!
😘

Perfect comfort food!

Ooh just seen someone's brought in the crisp sandwich!
Again 1 white slice, thickly buttered filled with cheese & onion crisps! Fold & enjoy! Mmmmm!

Edited to note: ALWAYS fat fried chips!
French fries do not qualify!

roughride24 · 02/09/2024 22:05

COB!!!!!

Cheesy chip cobs are just 🤤. Only if I can be arsed to throw it under the grill or air fryer til it gets a bit melty crispy though. Otherwise it's just lots of salt and vinegar, I can't bear ketchup so that would ruin it for me.

I could really eat one now actually...

Saschka · 02/09/2024 22:05

user1497787065 · 02/09/2024 21:50

Is this made with crisps or chips? I could maybe tolerate crisps and mayo but the idea of chips in a sandwich or roll sounds disgusting.

You never put your fries in your Big Mac then? You are missing out.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 02/09/2024 22:04

Vergeofbreakdown23 · 02/09/2024 21:40

Omg what is all this talk about toasted 😱🤣
Bread - any bread. Butter - proper butter. Chips and salt! That's it! 😀

My chip butty twin, I am a purist!

Saschka · 02/09/2024 22:03

Two slices of bread, with chip shop chips in. Obviously the chips have salt and vinegar on.

Chips in breadcake are fine, but not a chip butty. Ketchup has no place on chip shop chips (mushy peas are fine), and French fries are not correct for a chip butty.