Chips?

r93kaey5p2izun · 01-05-2020 4:16pm

I've never actually met someone who doesn't like chips :eek:

Chips are the absolute best food. No contest. Just about to have some home made ones now.

I love chipper chips but only have them about once a year, usually at the seaside. I think it's the first thing I'll do when it's safe to go about again, regardless of the weather.

Hamsterchops · 01-05-2020 4:59pm

ablelocks wrote: »

this - potatoes shouldn't be kept in water for any length of time, once peeled and cut, they should be rinsed to remove excess starch and then dried and cooked

Ah ha, so maybe there is some merit in my observation, whereby our local chip shop keeps buckets of chips in water for God knows how long?
They seem to be pre cut during the day, the water is then drained as an when they pour the chips into the fat...
I don't know the system in Wales (holidays) but their chips are always much browner & crispier, than our white-waterlogged mushy chips :cool:

Rubberchikken · 01-05-2020 5:04pm

Just having crispy oven chips now with southern fried chicken done in oven too.
Perfect.

Do love chipper chips just can't justify price at the best if times so very happy with SuperValu oven ibes.:)

Homelander · 01-05-2020 6:54pm

Can't believe someone in this thread said Burger King have the best chips in Ireland.

I don't eat proper chips from the chipper very often, but they're unbelievable with a bit of vinegar.

Oven chips are nice enough too if you make them yourself. Frozen ones are grand, but wouldn't eat them too often. Must try those Aldi ones someone mentioned.

PsychoPete · 01-05-2020 7:39pm

Rubberchikken wrote: »

Just having crispy oven chips now with southern fried chicken done in oven too.
Perfect.

Do love chipper chips just can't justify price at the best if times so very happy with SuperValu oven ibes.:)

How much are you paying for chips ? They are €2

r93kaey5p2izun · 01-05-2020 8:05pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

How much are you paying for chips ? They are €2

Exactly. Chips are great value I think, especially compared to other takeaway food. It's the calories I can't justify, not the price!

Deja Boo · 01-05-2020 8:21pm

cj maxx wrote: »

I do mine in the air fryer.
Brush with oil, 160% then up it to 180/200. Grand.

I tired ths once, but they came out very dry.
Maybe I did not brush enough oil on them.

Feisar · 01-05-2020 8:27pm

Apparently there is something intrinsically nyom nyom nyom about a fat and carb combo.

JohnnyFlash · 01-05-2020 8:31pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

How much are you paying for chips ? They are €2

I wouldn't be a huge fans of chipper chips, so I order 2 battered sausages, a cheese burger, and a can of coke after the pub. They tend to fire in a shovel of chips into the top of the bag anyways.

Borgo · 01-05-2020 8:36pm

McCain Triple Cooked Gastro Chips. That is all.

jaxxx · 01-05-2020 10:57pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Aldi sells these. They are by far the best oven chips I’ve tried. They come almost fully cooked in beef dripping, and you just throw them into a very hot oven to crisp up.

Alexa, add Walls Honest Chips to my shopping list.

Edgware · 01-05-2020 11:11pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I wouldn't be a huge fans of chipper chips, so I order 2 battered sausages, a cheese burger, and a can of coke after the pub. They tend to fire in a shovel of chips into the top of the bag anyways.

Good trick. Batter burger. 2 sausages and enough chips to keep me happy are thrown in

Greyfox · 02-05-2020 12:24am

I love batter sausages, chicken balls, steak, Salmon, Pulled pork, Chocolate, cake, Biscuits, Pizza but none of these taste as good as chips, every meal in the world can be improved with a side order of chips added to it and chips and curry sauce is one of the best pleasures the world has to offer.

Adyx · 02-05-2020 2:54am

I can't remember the last time I had a takeaway.

02-05-2020 3:16am

I miss Irish takeaway chips.

theteal · 02-05-2020 5:23am

Deleted User wrote: »

I miss Irish takeaway chips.

Me too. For all the sh!te we're subjected to about classic traditional English fish and chips, in 10 years I've still had nothing near the quality of a handful of places I could name back home

Optimalprimerib · 02-05-2020 6:08am

PsychoPete wrote: »

Oven chips can feck off with themselves

I started doing these by using the roast potato method in chip form. Cut them chunky enough, Par boil then coat in oil and a cheeky knob of butter and cook in the oven for 30 mins until crispy and they are the business. Honestly nicer than the chipper.

Still heart attacky but great.

weldoninhio · 02-05-2020 6:45am

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Can't stomach them at all. Why are they so popular here?

Jesus, you’re lucky you aren’t in Belgium. They’re being asked to double up on their chip consumption.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6877112/coronavirus-potatoes-fries-belgians/

Deja Boo · 02-05-2020 7:55am

weldoninhio wrote: »

Jesus, you’re lucky you aren’t in Belgium. They’re being asked to double up on their chip consumption.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6877112/coronavirus-potatoes-fries-belgians/

*makes note to visit Belgium at first available opportunity*

Kylta · 02-05-2020 8:07am

Charlie19 wrote: »

You can't beat proper chipper chips with batch bread and butter.

And a large batter burger or a steak and kidney pie. Or a fresh cod. Or better still a dinner box

the beer revolu · 02-05-2020 8:36am

Belgian chips are the business, alright.
They aren't better because they are twice fried - the vast majority of fresh cut chips are twice fried. They are better because they are cut a bit thinner and the second frying is in hotter oil and until they are properly crisped.

Some chippers here do decent chips but many don't take pride and/or don't have the patience to wait for the chips to cook properly. If a chipper is quiet and you ask for crispy, you'll often get them cooked a bit better.

Kylta · 02-05-2020 8:43am

I love chips, and I know its preference to what people like, but my opinion is that mcdonalds/kfc/burger king etc are not really chips, there sh¡te. Anything thing calling itself a chip that comes out off an oven (real not fu¢king frozen roast potatoes should come out of oven) is sh¡te. Anything that says chips that comes out of a freezer is sh¡te. Chips are chipper food, there are a lot of crap chippers around, but there are some great chippers. Alexi chipper in beaumont beautiful chips ( out of my travel area at the moment) savoy on the N C Rd does a lovely chip. Oh anything out of a chip van is Sh¡te too. Burdocks is famous in dublin for there fish and chips but to be honest I find it a bag of grease. Home made chips from real potatoes just don't have that same taste, it not the salt and vinegar that does it. So I'd suggest instead of doing chips do scallops georgeous if done right. Oh i've lived in england there are some chippers who do good stuff and some who do gank chips as well. What I found about england is you always got bigger portions. I do love good chips though

Edgware · 02-05-2020 10:47am

weldoninhio wrote: »

Jesus, you’re lucky you aren’t in Belgium. They’re being asked to double up on their chip consumption.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6877112/coronavirus-potatoes-fries-belgians/

Is it the Belgians who are credited with putting mayonnaise on the chips first?
mmmmm!

Mint Sauce · 02-05-2020 11:35am

Used to love chips, either on their own, lashings of salt, or with either fish, sausages, and beans or peas on the side, but unfortunately, seemed to go off them. Must have got a few bad ones along the way somewhere.

Do still eat them, but find they are so much nicer now between two slices of buttery bread, or under some curry or taco sauce. Bonus points if a nice piece of fish, pizza, kebab, or a chunky chicken burger is on the side.

Recently have been eating sweet potato fries, very tasty. Although can be difficult to get them right, finding the balance between over crispy, and under crispy can be a challenge though.

branie2 · 02-05-2020 11:36am

In the USA, chips are called French Fries

Pinch Flat · 02-05-2020 11:38am

Loved chips. Poncharelo was my favourite.

the beer revolu · 02-05-2020 11:38am

And before someone trots out the usual nonsense, like them or loathe them, McDonald's chips are chipped from real potatoes and fried.

The are not artificial potato and they are not reconstituted from powdered potato.

No fan or McDonald's but I hate the untruths pedalled about their chips.

branie2 · 02-05-2020 11:40am

SuperMacs chips are nice as well

anewme · 02-05-2020 11:40am

Daddy or Chips?

Markcheese · 02-05-2020 11:53am

anewme wrote: »

Daddy or Chips?

Chhhiiippps..

r93kaey5p2izun · 02-05-2020 11:54am

anewme wrote: »

Daddy or Chips?

Chips. No contest.

Markcheese · 02-05-2020 11:54am

anewme wrote: »

Daddy or Chips?

Chhhiiips..

kowloonkev · 02-05-2020 11:58am

the beer revolu wrote: »

And before someone trots out the usual nonsense, like them or loathe them, McDonald's chips are chipped from real potatoes and fried.

The are not artificial potato and they are not reconstituted from powdered potato.

No fan or McDonald's but I hate the untruths pedalled about their chips.

Mcdonalds in HK have these sachets of honey BBQ seasoning that you sprinkle over the chips in a separate bag and then shake the bag. it's seriously good like a mix between and chip and a crisp. Don't know if they have introduced this in Ireland?

bazz26 · 02-05-2020 2:24pm

branie2 wrote: »

In the USA, chips are called French Fries

These guys would disagree with you:

weldoninhio · 02-05-2020 6:50pm

Deja Boo wrote: »

*makes note to visit Belgium at first available opportunity*

I’ve only been to Brussels, but it’s brilliant.

ablelocks · 08-05-2020 8:43pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Aldi sells these. They are by far the best oven chips I’ve tried. They come almost fully cooked in beef dripping, and you just throw them into a very hot oven to crisp up.

thanks for the heads up - finally got some from the local aldi today and they were delicious. As close to proper chipper chips as can be done at home.

ChelseaRentBoy · 08-05-2020 8:46pm

Brennan's bread, dairygold butter and a bag of hot salty vinegar laden chips. Oh that's heaven.

ablelocks · 08-05-2020 8:47pm

ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »

Brennan's bread, dairygold real butter and a bag of hot salty vinegar laden chips. Oh that's heaven.

sacrebleu - dairygol is not ze butter! Kerrygol is ze butter

Greentopia · 08-05-2020 9:28pm

Charlie19 wrote: »

You can't beat proper chipper chips with batch bread and butter.

ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »

Brennan's bread, dairygold butter and a bag of hot salty vinegar laden chips. Oh that's heaven.

Sounds disgusting to me, sorry. All of it.
Can't eat chipper chips. They lay in my stomach like a big undigested greasy lump for hours. Must be the oil they use because I've made them myself with some olive oil and no such problem.

harr · 08-05-2020 9:39pm

Greentopia wrote: »

Sounds disgusting to me, sorry. All of it.
Can't eat chipper chips. They lay in my stomach like a big undigested greasy lump for hours. Must be the oil they use because I've made them myself with some olive oil and no such problem.

Your just not getting them in the right place find a good Italian chipper that do the chips in beef dripping ...then into a brown bag and soak in brown vinegar and lashings of salt .. close the bag for about 3 minutes then consume on fresh white bread with a thick layer of kerrygold ( room temperature) ... ketchup is optional but the melting butter is only sauce I need... sounds like a recipe for a heart attack..

08-05-2020 9:48pm

Homelander wrote: »

Can't believe someone in this thread said Burger King have the best chips in Ireland.

they have to be the worst chips in Ireland.

Anywhere that does really good batter deep fired chipper fish, tends to do good chips too- which unfortunately isn't too many places- and i wouldn't count any of the Italian takeaways I've experienced in Ireland as places that do good fish.

Greentopia · 08-05-2020 10:05pm

harr wrote: »

Your just not getting them in the right place find a good Italian chipper that do the chips in beef dripping ...then into a brown bag and soak in brown vinegar and lashings of salt .. close the bag for about 3 minutes then consume on fresh white bread with a thick layer of kerrygold ( room temperature) ... ketchup is optional but the melting butter is only sauce I need... sounds like a recipe for a heart attack..

I've tried them in a few places and always the same result. Beef dripping...god I haven't seen that since I was a child when my mother used to get it from the local butcher.

I can have a few if they're from a good chipper, but not a whole bag.

To me bread and butter doesn't go together with chips and I'm watching my cholesterol anyway, so real butter is saved as a rare treat on homemade soda bread and scones.

ceadaoin. · 08-05-2020 10:12pm

Anyone got any tips for making chipper chips at home. What potatoes, how long to cook them for etc? I really miss them and even bought a deep fat fryer but they just aren't the same

I always look forward to chipper and Chinese whenever I go home.

playonplayette · 08-05-2020 10:15pm

Only read the op..

I like chips. They're a nice compliment to a meal.

Im weird with chips though...

.Chipper chips - loads of salt and vinegar, no ketchup, like curry sauce sometimes though not essential

.Mac Donald's fries/ fast food fries - add salt, no ketchup, no additional sauce

.Oven chips - can't have salt on them, must have ketchup. Might have curry sauce but wouldn't go out my way to make it

.Homemade fried chips - no salt, would have to have some ketchup

.Fried potatoes/basically chips - just salt, nothing else

.Chips from the Chinese - I actually like these with ketchup also or Chinese curry sauce, no salt or vinegar

.Retaurant/steakhouse chips - just ketchup, don't like salt on these or vinegar

So they are only really a side but a versatile and important one and I'm fussy

Potential-Monke · 09-05-2020 9:01am

I think it's all dependant on where you're from. I love a good bag of chipper chips, and yes, the "white soggy ones". Just cooked enough to nearly be considered still spud and not chip. Drowned in saltandvinegar. Banging. And I've tried chippers in most counties, and it's still the local city ones that are the best, and for me that's Limerick. Enzo's and Donkey Fords are top of the list in Limerick for me, closely followed by Luigi's but they don't take card so I don't go there.

Tried the famous Lennox's in Cork once, didn't think much of it tbh. But it's nearly gospel down there, so all a part of where you were brought up. Also, can't imagine a bag of chipper chips being crispy... Does not compute. And I love all chips anyway, McDonalds being the best 'fast food' chips (Burgerking used to be King of the chips until they changed them a good few years ago). Supermacs are the best of the notshoestringbutstillthinandfrozen chips. And I even like the chape frozen ones in spice bags from the local Chinese, but i'm not allowed to get them any more as my mother is a little bit racist since the lock down.

But there is a new King of skinny chips in Limerick, and that's Chippy Chicken. Home made shoestring chips (with the skins). They are amazing, and they're open now again so yurt!

Chips?

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