Why do you Irish love the chipper.

I live quite Rural and our local chipper run by the Grumpiest Italian I've ever met. Honestly the food is pretty dreadful, I only use occasionally if desperate. The only thing cooked fresh are the chips. He's so clueless he doesn't even hide the fact he microwaves breasts of chicken before Deeping in fryers.

I doubt very much many if any Chippers truely cook from fresh, apart from chips, most things pre prepared, alot of this primarily down to speed of service, I suspect most customers wouldn't be impressed having to wait for a raw piece of fish to be freshly battered, and cooked from scratch, the same for chicken products. This said, there's no excuse for microwaving food before frying. Quality takeaway food can correctly be partly pre prepared for service on the day, I just think alot of chippers here, down right lazy with most products being sold Frozen.

I even seen some chippers using pre prepared chipped potatoes, you can tell from the taste, the chemical used to preserve them leaves an after taste.

I'm a chef by qualification and I've often wanted to jump over the counter and show my local chipper how it's done 😁 but have not due to concerns for my wellbeing 😉

Thankfully new owners taking over soon, hopefully food will improve accordingly 😉

Any Irish chipper I've been in has usually shown the food being cooked on the spot. Never had much of a complaint on the quality of the food being cooked in then.

Yeah, without the vinegar they're just spuds overcooked in a different way.

Original poster aving an identity crisis? Best chippers are outside of Ireland and UK.Chips cooked same w\y in both countries.Fish in UK requires a spoon to each the flour mixture i.e not cooked,too much used

Reverse the countries and you've got it

Agree, I spent a good 2 months trying out the chippers when I moved to Cork. When i went to Lennoxs I got frozen chips - I reckon they just cater for pist people now.

Dino's is hands down the best. No 2 is the Golden Fry up in Ballintemple - amazing fish dinners, amazing portions. Corkys love their mushy peas and potato pies, but cant get a decent garlic sauce anywhere. No decent kebab shops that does their own bread either. The real capital ...

Dunno where the OP's from, but I can't help reading "you Irish" in a sneery English accent.

Disclaimer. I did a lot of my growing up in the UK and would have what many consider an English accent myself, just not a sneery one.

Think the OP needs to find a better chipper.

I live in NZ and the fish is great but the chips are crap! plus they dont have vinegar in the chippers

Is Fortes on Dorest St still on the go? When I lived in Drumcondra as a student I use to get a bag of chips and garlic mayo from it on the way home from the pub.. wow.. I would almost go to Dublin for a weekend or something just to have a bag of 'em again.. divine.. and in my college days I got my fix for something like €1.10 I think.. divine.. proper chips (Italian Style)

in country towns they just don't have the turnover so its frozen fish bagged chips all the way. where i grew up in the UK as far from the sea as you could get it was fresh potatoes double fried and fresh fish. they are all Indian takeaway now.

so I rarely have takeaway chips as they aren't nice.

noticed our old chipper having the front bricked up so that's not coming back.

1. Excluding Liam Brady of course, there's no such thing as an Irish chippy, they're called chippers over here.
2. That article is absolutely outrageously bad. €32 for potatoes? For how many/what sort of weight is that? A 25kg bag of spuds is €16 and that's retail prices. A commercial entity that goes through two bags of those a day is gonna be paying a lot, lot less than that for spuds. Like less than a tenner for 25kg. An average serving is about 3-400g so let's round that up to 500g to account for waste etc. That's 50 servings per sack of spuds.
3. A €10 sack producing 50 servings of chips works out at €0.20 per bag of chips. The absolute neck of some chippers reheating a few chips to save 20c when they're charging stupid money for them (Giuseppe's on Baggott St is a fiver a bag and a tenner for a fish....... €15 is scandalous money).
4. Like most businesses, they're finding out the hard way that there's only so much blood you can squeeze out of a stone. Years of cutting back on quality while also slyly increasing prices have meant that it just isn't worth it anymore. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and people won't settle for the crap quality and high prices. Same as everywhere, really. People vote with their wallet, if you're not good enough to stay in business then you'll go out of business. Trying to guilt-trip others into propping up your unsustainable business is a fool's errand.
5. The article is nothing more than a fluff piece to drum up business and sympathy for the Borzas. Chips in their chipper are €4.50 a bag in feckin' Walkinstown. No wonder they're trying to save face by claiming their costs are through the roof.