Chips

[Ms T]

Had twice cooked chips yesterday in a fancy place. Just tasted like normal chips. I hate my life.

All proper chips are twice cooked. It's triple cooked chips that are fancy.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. Cut chips taste crap cooked by it too.

Then the issue is probably that the fat isn't hot enough (last time I looked at a consumer site, there were complaints that a lot of fryers that claimed to get up to 190C only got up to 170-175C when tested), or, as you intuit, you're using the wrong fat. Lard is best, but most people refuse to use it. Corn oil is very good, and sunflower oil is the usual compromise people make.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The best home made chips I've made have just been unpeeled thin cut spuds with oil, salt, pepper and paprika scattered over them and banged in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
Can't justify having a fryer in the house.

They're not chips. Chips are deep-fried. Them is "potato wedges", you posh bastard!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

what about the french fry style, you know like from maccy d's or BK (not there ones specific but that style of thin cut)?

Not really

 

[Orang Utan]

They are not chips. They are potato wedges and they are very nice but they are not chips.

Wedges are wedge shaped
Chip are chip shaped

 

[ViolentPanda]

lol, chips with the jacket on. Served in a little tin bucket no doubt

Dented enamelled mug, more like.

 

[Orang Utan]

They're not chips. Chips are deep-fried. Them is "potato wedges", you posh bastard!

Bollocks. You can cook them in the oven too.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Fuck off they're chips. Look like them and taste like them
Precious cunts

There's no need to get all uppity about it!
They are 100% not chips. You know they are not chips!
Chips are deep fried. That is how you make "chips".

 

[danny la rouge]

Bollocks. You can cook them in the oven too.

A chip is "a long rectangular piece of deep-fried potato".

You're doing very thin roast potatoes.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Had twice cooked chips yesterday in a fancy place. Just tasted like normal chips. I hate my life.

All non-oven chips should be twice-cooked, or they'll be soggy as fuck. You part-cook them, drain them, let them cool a bit, then back in the hot oil to finish - result: lovely crispy chips with fluffy non-greasy innards.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I don't like them at all. Stodgy greasy potato. Chunky chips? Ugh.

Sends horde of villagers with pitchforks and burning brands round to Suplex's gaff.

 

[Orang Utan]

There's no need to get all uppity about it!
They are 100% not chips. You know they are not chips!
Chips are deep fried. That is how you make "chips".

Balls. They are either fried or baked.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Fuck off they're chips. Look like them and taste like them
Precious cunts

Call yourself a northerner? You should be fucking horse-whipped!

 

[Orang Utan]

A chip is "a long rectangular piece of deep-fried potato".

You're doing very thin roast potatoes.

Wrong
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Chips_(food)

 

[twentythreedom]

Chips

 

[ViolentPanda]

Bollocks. You can cook them in the oven too.

No, those are "oven chips", not chips, and they use an entirely different principle of cooking to your potato wedges - "oven chips being a mix of reconstituted potato, seasoning and oil, so they cook outside and in - which you're roasting (anointing with oil and seasoning).
Chips are cut pieces of peeled potatoes deep-fryed in oil. Neither of the above are "chips" in the proper meaning of the word.

Really, stop trying to justify your poncey ways by calling your potato wedges "chips", it'll go better for you at your trial.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Balls. They are either fried or baked.

Baked? We're talking about potato wedges, not cakes or bread!

 

[tufty79]

I'm firmly with OU on this one.

 

[ViolentPanda]

There's no need to get all uppity about it!
They are 100% not chips. You know they are not chips!
Chips are deep fried. That is how you make "chips".

He's getting uppity because he realises that if the good people of Leeds hear his blasphemy, they'll string him from the nearest lamp-post!

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm firmly with OU on this one.

That's just plain unnatural!

 

[Orang Utan]

Baked? We're talking about potato wedges, not cakes or bread!

They're not wedges. I cut them thin and chip shaped. They are fucking chips.

 

[tufty79]

They're not wedges. I cut them thin and chip shaped. They are fucking chips.

This.

 

[Orang Utan]

No, those are "oven chips", not chips, and they use an entirely different principle of cooking to your potato wedges - "oven chips being a mix of reconstituted potato, seasoning and oil, so they cook outside and in - which you're roasting (anointing with oil and seasoning).
Chips are cut pieces of peeled potatoes deep-fryed in oil. Neither of the above are "chips" in the proper meaning of the word.

Really, stop trying to justify your poncey ways by calling your potato wedges "chips", it'll go better for you at your trial.

Oven chips are not chips? What sort of twisted logic are you operating? Some sort of Orwellian doublethink.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I couldn't give a fuck really Call 'em whatever you like as long as they were nice.

 

[tufty79]

If they were wedges, they would say so.

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/home-made-oven-chips-791

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2515/chunky-oven-chips

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oven chips are not chips? What sort of twisted logic are you operating? Some sort of Orwellian doublethink.

Oven chips are extruded, they're not cut, therefore they're not "chipped potatoes". Far from "Orwellian doublethink", my perfectly-straight logic is unassailable, except by wrong'uns who don't know what chips actually are.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oven chips are extruded, they're not cut, therefore they're not "chipped potatoes". Far from "Orwellian doublethink", my perfectly-straight logic is unassailable, except by wrong'uns who don't know what chips actually are.

What do you mean they are not cut? Mine are!

 

[ViolentPanda]

If they were wedges, they would say so.

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/home-made-oven-chips-791

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2515/chunky-oven-chips

You believe Nigella over a member of your own class?
Shame on you, tufts, shame on you.

 

[ViolentPanda]

What do you mean they are not cut? Mine are!

Your potato confections aren't oven chips, they're potato wedges.

Pats OU on head.

 

[danny la rouge]

If they were wedges, they would say so.

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/home-made-oven-chips-791

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2515/chunky-oven-chips

She was probably off her head on cocaine when she wrote that.