Just can’t get a decent bag of chips lately, what’s happened?.Do chippers not cut their own spuds any more, buy the chips in cut mass production?. Throw out more than I eat now
Stopped going to chippers it used to be a fairly cheap treat now a fresh cod, curry chips and can of coke is too expensive for me :(
Yes that too!,very expensive
Fast food used to be the cheap option
it’s only a treat now for a family of four
These guys are supplying a lot of the chippers.
They are in business a long time because they supply good stuff.
Find a shop that uses good product and you will get a good meal.
Do they do domestic supplies? Was thinking of turning the posh back garden shed into a chipper for family parties. It is well aired.
They probably do - will call them. Fascinated to know the difference between an Irish style and Scottish style batter.
I have got food from a lot of the chippers around the D15 area, just seems that quality has hit the floor.Been really bad lately
No chippers make their own chips anymore.
Ah they do cos I spoke to a guy delivering potatoes to a chipper recently
Where / which area was this?
These days it doesn't make financial sense to employ people to peel spuds as opposed to ordering it in.
Most chippers are owned by the Italian community. This started around the 1950's and is mostly a closed community.
Hence the franchise system across many regions.
I can remember when spuds were peeled and chipped by machine, back in the 1960’s.
The west delivering to an Italian, i stopped to ask what type potatoes although I sort of knew they'd be maris piper
i'm in south Kerry and the two nearest chippers to me do their own chips, most of the well known chippers in Cork city do their own as well. One of the lads down here does his chips in Frytex as opposed to cooking oil, savage stuff, gonna get a lash of them tonight with some fresh battered hake, tartare sauce, a wedge of lemon and loads of salt and vinegar.
Sounds lovely
Potato peeling machines have been available for years.
We had one back in the 70s
Connected to kitchen tap the water drove it
Like a pot throw in the spuds , the inside was rough and scraped off the peel
Potato peelers are extremely inefficient, though. You still have to take out any eyes or divots by hand or else leave them in so long that they are almost gone before all the skin is off. You lose a lot of your potatoes!
First day in the kitchen at the ANCO chef school in Killybegs, mid-eighties. Head chef was a real grouch.
Myself and this other guy were put on potato peeling duty - you put whole potatoes into the top of the peeling machine and they came out at the bottom into a bucket, all nicely peeled.
it was my job to take the bucket of peeled potatoes over to the oven for roasting. While I was doing that, my colleague was still throwing whole potatoes into the top. As there was no bucket at the bottom, the peeled potatoes were being thrown all over the kitchen. Head chef went mental, mostly at me rolling round the floor laughing at the situation.
I lasted one more day when an incident with some duchess potatoes threw me into fits again and the furious head chef threw me out of the kitchen, never to return. Oh, what could have been. 😝
I could think of better ways to treat my family than cheap Italian fast food.
Chippers have gone absolutely mental expensive.
To feed a family of five would set you back €60 in Dublin- easy.
€13 for a fresh cod meal!
Hard to justify when a chipper up north will sell the same fish and chips for less than £7
I find most chipper chips fairly disappointing. I grew up in the north and chipper chips up there are basically like what you'd get in the traditional UK chipper, chips crunchy on the outside and fluffy inside.
But most of the chippers down here seem to be the Italian chipper variety, and the chips are usually soggy and soft! Often greasy too. I dunno if it's just a different cooking technique, or they use a different variety of potato, or what it is, but they are pretty different and my experience is relatively consistent.
It's even worse if you get it to take home, by the time you've got home the chips are so soggy they've essentially fused into one huge brick in the bag.
The chips might be cooked by Italians but the cuisine is 100% Irish.
Grub like that is not on the menu in Italy.
By the way have you consulted with your family ?
I bet that like most kids they'd love a few chips as an occasional treat.
Yeh, they've gone from the 'treat' Friday evening option to a seriously tough consideration to have one.
I don't know where the time was that the straw broke the camel's back so to speak. There was definitely a jump-the-shark moment where pricing for chippers just went out of control.
Takeaways are simply too expensive now.
I used to look forward ordering on the weekend.
Its getting harder to justify now.
It’s €4:50 for a bag of chips in my local chipper now which is fairly outrageous.
What really annoys me is when you order two bags and they don’t ask if you want them separate- you end up with 1+1/2 bags of chips for €9!!!!
Oh do give us an example kind sir!
Its now almost cheaper to eat in a restaurant than it is to get a burger and chips in a takaway
3.90 for a 'regular' bag of chips in Ennis (the price list said 3.50 but they jacked the price when I went to pay)
The prices are going up so fast they can't even keep the pricelist up to date
Supermacs used to be reasonably cheap and cheerful, now it's 12 euros for a burger meal and the quality has gotten worse
Feck that
That’s just not true. Where I work we have a shipping container setup on the quay across the road from the restaurant and both in the restaurant & the container we hand cut the chips. fresh daily.
I won’t say the name of the place in case I’m shot for advertising. But I can think of 4-5 places immediately that cut their own whether by hand or by chipping machine.
I think it’s down to the way they cook them. More than a few of these “Italian” style shops will only cook chips from raw rather than blanching @ low and finishing on high. That’s where you get the crispy outside and fluffy soft inside.
Also it’s time to bring back “rustic” chips, stop peeling your potatoes.. 😎
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