Keeping chip-shop chips?

[Stillcountingbeans]

We just got some chips from a chip shop for dinner. The portions were enormous - about twice as much as we needed.
Can they be kept in the fridge or freezer? Can they be microwaved, re-fried or baked in the oven?
Or shall I just bin them?

They are traditional big fat chips, not thin ones.

Oven. Won’t be as good though. You could try a chip omelette…

I've read, but not tried, about reheating in an airfryer working well.

Have had decent results using air fryer, if you have one!

Sadly we don't have an air frier, but I think they work like a mini-oven.

Has anyone tried freezing them? or would they have to go in the fridge and be eaten tomorrow?

I've frozen them and reheated in oven. They're not as good but ok.

I can confirm reheating in an airfryer works brilliantly. Normally chip shop chips are too sad to contemplate the next day but a few minutes in the air fryer and they tasted like fresh, crispy and not at all soggy like microwaving.

I’ve a friend that freezes them and reheats them in the oven just like oven chips, she says they’re pretty good.

Cook them up with salt, chilli, onion and bell peppers in a wok. Yum.

I wrapped them up in original paper, put them in the fridge (if sober enough to remember)then heated them
up (to piping hot) in a (dry) fry pan the next day! Just as good as the first day.

God I miss chips!!

(low carber for health issues)

Omelette or stir frying sounds good.

I’ve frozen them and then reheated them in the oven directly from the freezer. Absolutely fine! If anything, I prefer them to the fresh ones as they are a bit crispier.

We freeze them all the time then cook them from frozen in the oven, they are lovely

I have frozen them before, worked perfectly well. I heated them fairly slowly in the oven.

Thanks all - I will put them in the freezer😁

We don’t buy from the chippy that often so I always forget how big the portions are, I’ve never frozen them but as long as you give them a little spritz of oil before you recook them, either in a frying pan or in the oven they’re fine and not at all soggy. Personally, the frying pan is better.

If they are refrigerated then refrying them in a frying pan and a small amount of oil the next day is brilliant. They come out crispy and actually even a bit nicer than the day you bought them.

Fridge. Heat in microwave up to three days later.

This!

I never even considered freezing them - I might try now that people have recommended it!

I eat them cold for breakfast.

Have you tried celeriac, @WinterMusings ?

I've frozen and not and reheated in an oven and airfryer and they are fine. I do find that the best chips are eaten first and the smaller crisper ones left for another meal.

Microwave them first and THEN quick blast round a wok with oil in.

I came on the thread to suggest the chip omelette. It's like a shortcut to a Spanish tortilla.

Blimey we give our chickens leftover chips, they’re cheap as, well, chips! I didn’t realise people got 2 sittings out of chip shop chips, not that we have lots leftover or eat fish and chips very often to be honest. There’s one at the end of my road and I sometimes smell it if I’m going out and it puts me off, we maybe have it once a year (unless by the seaside of course!).