Chips: Salt or Vinegar first

[purenarcotic]

Vinegar then salt, but I can’t say I’m massively fussed either way, as long as there’s plenty of both on them. Dunno why the ketchup hate, it’s a great condiment.

 

[petee]

I doubt you've even had chips, yank.

I've had my chips, limeball.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Not on pizza. To dip. Not posh pizzas like domino’s. The little frozen ones from Asda.

Salad cream is best on those.

 

[skyscraper101]

Proper chips should be soaked in vinegar, and sprinkled with salt with a nice dollop of Heinz ketchup. Mushy peas to complete.

 

[Roseygirl]

I don't often have these but it had to be vinegar first to catch the salt and kind of melt it a bit. I don't know about now but years ago we used to use non brewed condiment always used in a chippy) we used it for everything from the chips to cleaning the counters. All the chippies I knew then used it, going back 40yrs now. If I had to try and describe it, would be a taste between malt and distilled vinegar. No chips anywhere since then have tasted the same but at least put the vinegar first!

 

[Roseygirl]

No chips have ever tasted the same, newspaper, or not. I miss it lots.

 

[skyscraper101]

non brewed condiment always used in a chippy) we used it for everything from the chips to cleaning the counters

windowlene?

 

[Roseygirl]

No!!! But we definitely didn't use vinegar. Dunno how many other used to work in a chippy, but I do know when I was 16 or so , long time ago it wasn't actually vinegar. Or at least the ones round York's anyway

 

[fishfinger]

No!!! But we definitely didn't use vinegar. Dunno how many other used to work in a chippy, but I do know when I was 16 or so , long time ago it wasn't actually vinegar. Or at least the ones round York's anyway

A lot of chippies use non-brewed condiment, as it is cheaper than real malt vinegar. Unfortunately, it tastes very strongly of acetic acid, with none of the natural flavour of real vinegar.

 

[dessiato]

I use white wine vinegar on my chips when I don’t have mayonnaise. I can only rarely get Sarsons or any malt vinegar here.

 

[Maggot]

Proper chips should be soaked in vinegar, and sprinkled with salt with a nice dollop of Heinz ketchup. Mushy peas to complete.

Ketchup on chips is fine, mushy peas with chips is fine, but together?

Red and green should never be seen.

 

[wayward bob]

salt > vinegar > salt

for optimum penetration & stick

 

[fishfinger]

...Red and green should never be seen.

Without a plate of chips between.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Swarfega?
Effing ell?

Swarfega? A preferable addition to chips than ketchup? Well yes...but..

That was just an affectionate memory of buying chips from a Chinese take-away on Botley Road in Oxford some 40 years ago. "Swarfega?" (Salt and Vinegar?) "'Effing 'ell?" (Anything else?). Oh, the joys of accents and mispronunciations!

 

[moochedit]

Yes, it's considered high treason to even think of adding that muck to chips izz

Yep this is what we built the english channel for!

 

[moochedit]

Salt first, then the gravy.

^
This

 

[maomao]

And normal vinegar is not allowed. Must be either non-brewed condiment as described above or onion vinegar if feeling posh.

 

[mod]

Simple question.

I put vinegar on first as it helps the salt stick to the chips.

Salt will stick to the first damp layer of chips if you do that.

By adding salt first it'll fall between the gaps and salt the entire bag more evenly. You can even give the bag a shake and hear it all fall downwards.

Then saturate with vinegar.

This is the process any sane person would use.

 

[dessiato]

Putting a seatbelt on was an insult to the driver!

My friends knew that I would be driving rather quickly when I told them to put on their seatbelt.

 

[dessiato]

Vinegar first, or salt first...the 2021 cheese v beans debate.

The correct answers are:

• Vinegar then salt;
• Beans then cheese.

 

[izz]

Yep this is what we built the english channel for!

#gallicshrug

 

[danny la rouge]

Vinegar first, or salt first...the 2021 cheese v beans debate.

The correct answers are:

• Vinegar then salt;
• Beans then cheese.

 

[neonwilderness]

The correct amount of vinegar on a bag of chips is “enough that your eyes water from the fumes.” Now, if you’re having some weak little sprinkle of vinegar, I can see it might leave the salt intact. But if the proper amount of vinegar is anointing your chips, it will have washed away the salt you’ve pointlessly applied beforehand.

This. Then the same again once you've eaten the top layer of chips.

I want fish and chips now

 

[Maggot]

Salt will stick to the first damp layer of chips if you do that.

By adding salt first it'll fall between the gaps and salt the entire bag more evenly. You can even give the bag a shake and hear it all fall downwards.

Then saturate with vinegar.

This is the process any sane person would use.

Yes, it will fall between the gaps and down to the bottom of the bag, with hardly any on the chips.

 

[sojourner]

Obvious wind up. No-one being serious would say 'chips n egg' not 'egg and chips'

You're clearly not Northern.

 

[sojourner]

It’s “chips and egg” in the play/film Shirley Valentine. I assume it’s a north-west weirdness. Do scousers also say “chips and fish” or “chips and chicken” I wonder?

No, fish n chips. Maybe it's cos it's such a common meal round here, that it's always been chips n egg. I dunno. Anything else is wrong.

 

[Roseygirl]

A lot of chippies use non-brewed condiment, as it is cheaper than real malt vinegar. Unfortunately, it tastes very strongly of acetic acid, with none of the natural flavour of real vinegar.

You're so right! But just the words bring back the smell and the taste for me, I think is what you grow up with isn't it? When you do a Google on it, Tisnt the same at all but was what we had then and I still crave it. I can see why they used it to clean the counters tho, ethanol!

 

[mr steev]

It’s called salt and vinegar not vinegar and salt.

So that solves the jacket potato cheese & beans argument then

I've only recently started having salt on my chips - I rarely ask for it at a chippy as they never seem to understand 'not much'. If I'm taking them home, or make them at home, then it's vinegar, a little bit of salt and lots of black pepper. Vinegar first or it washes off the seasoning

 

[danny la rouge]

So that solves the jacket potato cheese & beans argument then

Of course it does.

 

[mr steev]

Of course it does.

It does for me