Urgent(ish!) - Homemade oven chips

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Can anyone tell me how to make homemade oven chips? I read a post about them somewhere, but can't find it now. Something to do with shaking chip-shaped potato in a bag of oil I think. Do I have to boil them at all? Sunflower oil or olive oil?

Thanks!

I'd use sunflower oil - it can cope with higher temperatures without smoking. I make mine as wedges, toss them in oil and seasoning and shake them out on to a preheated baking sheet (one you don't mind getting oil burnt onto.
I'd turn them a couple of times into the cooking process.

make wedges out of unpeeled spuds
put in plastic bag and add some oil (sunflower is good)
shake a lot
cook for about 20 mins or more at 225 c

Similar - I cut up the potatoes into thick-ish chips, put them on the tray, pour over olive oil, toss is around with my hands, then sprinkle over something like salt, pepper and cumin, maybe a bit of chilli powder, or sometimes nothing else. Into hot-ish oven, toss/turn them (ahem, not with hands this time) after 10 or 15 mins and look again another 10-15 mins later.

I tend to do wedges rather than chips. I preheat olive oil n an oven dish. I then microwave the whole potatoes (if wahsed) for 4 or 5 minutes first. I then cut into wedges and put in the oven into the hot oil. I give them a bit of a shake, carefully, to coat the wedgies. And then they take about 20 minutes on a high oven.

Yes, wedges is more accurate for me too.

I use uncooked spuds, put them on a sheet cut into whatever shape you want, then I spray oil (I have a garden spray with sunflower oil in) very lightly... taste great. That's the lowest fat method I can find without resorting to horrible prefilled oil sprays that contain yucks.

Wow - didn't think I'd get so many responses so quickly. Thank you all so much!! That's supper sorted for tonight!