how do you cook your chips

[bubbly1973]

i cut mine up into thick chips and then cook them on full gas, cook them in lard

how do you do yours? some people par boil them, ive done that and they taste scrummy! but i am lazy and just deep fry them without boiling them first

Bubbly I must say you can't beat chips done in a deep fat fryer. My parents have one and I have them occasionally and they are yummy. Do change the lard to Sunflower oil though!

Cook them in a deep fat fryer in rapeseed oil which is high in monounsaturates and polyunsaturates, so its good for you. Drain well and pat in kitchen paper, and change oil every six fry-ings. Keep it fryer all the time. (Oh, and only have them once a week!)

crunchie...when you said 'you dont know what to do with one' i wondered why....my dh has just informed me that we dont have a deepfat fryer...we have a chip pan

Oven chips eughhh

I am even more lazy and don't peel potatoes, thick chop them, roll in coarse ground pepper. Deep fry in sunflower oil.

yum yum yum

don't have very often though due to lashings and lashings of oil.

so my next question is

what is the difference between a chip pan and a deep fat fryer

with a chip pan, you just fill it up with lard (now changing to sunflower oil!) and heat it up, it has a basket inside to hold the chips in..thats it

and it goes on a hob

Safety! A fryer is thernmostatically controlled and if you forget it and wander off, it will maintain a safe temperature, whereas a pan will go up in flames.

jagly, i see! so apart from that, they are the same thing then?

do they go on the hob too?

Think its the most common cause of house fires.

No, they go on surface and you plug them in. Preferablky near an extractor fan.

jangly thanks for educating me...i really do learn something new everyday on mumnset...dh should quit moaning

oven chips or home made wedges here too. Never fry anything. Even my homemade wedges are made with fry light and not oil.
Have to save my calories/points/sins for my choc fest every evening

I use a wok for deep frying.

Bubbly, know what you mean - I'd better get off here soon as mine will be home soon!

I know I'm in a minority, but I hate home cooked chips. The odd time we have chips they are oven ones, or sometimes sweet potato wedges. Strangely enough I love chip shop chips, with loads of pickled onion vinegar and salt.

The only things that get fried in our house are eggs.

serenity theres nothing like a bag of chips from chipshop with loads of salt and vinegar

yes terribly bad for you but what the hell! i love em!

Kayleigh - I used to use frylight as well, but since ds has started to eat them, i've changed to olive oil.

Deep fried in crisp 'n' dry... yummy

furball, is there a reason the kids shouldn't have fry light ?

don't have a deep fat fryer. No kitchen space.

My mum, god rest her soul, made the best chips. Latterly fried in olive oil for a while, then taken out whilst preparing other bits to go with said chips, and then re-frying the chips.

Double the fat, double the taste! Crispy on the outside, fluffy in the middle.

I don't know for definate, but just feel it's a bit artificial

My FIL makes DIVINE deepfried chips, better than the chipper ( sorry you UK girls say chippie, don't you?) don't have a deep fat fryer because I would use it every day and end up like Giberts mum in "Whats eating Gilbert Grape"