Does Anyone Still Cook Chips the Old Fashioned Way?

My first husband was Spanish.

Lived over there and they used to fry chips in a frying pan, filled with oil.

The most delicious chips on earth

I loathe oven chips

I never cut or cooked chips during nearly 50yrs of married life. My late DH was always in charge of chip pan on a Saturday night. Prepared the chips earlier in the day and left them soaking to get the starch out of them then drained them and dried them off with a tea towel he kept specially and then they were "twice cooked" in lard. I must admit they were very tasty!! When that phrase started appearing on restaurant menus we used to laugh.

I love home made fried chips but don't make them because of the faff of owning a chip pan. So I have oven chips which aren't as nice.

I really dislike oven chips. We rarely ever eat chips anyway, so it doesn't present a problem.

I've always got oven chips in the freezer, but mainly for the DGDs. If I want chips, I will stick a large potato in the microwave for a couple of minutes, let it cool down, cut it into wedges, spray with oil and bake. Delicious!
My DM used to make delicious chips in a chip pan with lard, and I did the same many years ago, but not any longer.

I rarely cook them in a pan nowadays, usually making my own 'oven chips'. A few weeks ago, though, I fried some in rapeseed oil, doing them the proper way (twice) and they were really delicious.

When the kids were small, we had an electric fryer but I really hated sieving/staining the oil and cleaning it out was a nightmare.

As a child I always loved homemade chips cooked in lard. Unfortunately one day my Mother forgot the chip pan was on and the kitchen caught fire. Not surprisingly I only cook oven chips.

I used to have a deepfryer, electric, and plugged it in outside because of the smell. It made good chips, sunflower oil.
I agree about the type of potato David. But can't remember which is best.
We don't eat much fried food now as husband has a dodgy stomach.

My dad made lovely Chips and my boys still talk about them even now. Happy days when egg and chips was our treat of the week! Only eat oven chips now once a week.

Only once a month, electric fryer, sunflower oil, correct variety of potatoes. Definitely not oven chips.

My boss' family (he was an architect) at the time of my wedding owned and ran 2 fish and chip shops. My boss bought us a deep fat fryer and a catering sized box of lard as a wedding present !
I used the fryer for many years but now we only eat oven chips.

I now use an Airfryer, if and when we have chips.
Before that it was oven chips, but they just aren't the same, although they do work in the Airfryer.
In the early 1970's, we had a self catering holiday in Corfu, and the owners, who lived downstairs, gave us some olive oil and potatoes, to make chips. I think that was the first time I used olive oil for cooking.

Sunflower Oil in large heavy bottom pan, twice fried. Made them last night. Have them about once a month. Also make parsnip chips the same way YUM!

I only ever buy oven chips, but I don't eat them - I simply don't like the bland taste of chips - . My husband has chips once every 3 weeks or so.

Get yourself a tefal actifry, they only use 1 small spoon of oil, they are brilliant although a tad expensive

I have a chip pan too. It gets used about once a month for chips with steak and garlic mushrooms. I use vegetable oil and light a chef's candle to get rid of the smell.

I still have a chip pan that I've had for years. I cook them in sunflower oil and we have them roughly once per month. My mam always cooked them in beef dripping mixed with lard. They were gorgeous. I sometimes make my own version of oven chips and they come out great.

As my mother was not British (she was european) our chips were fried in oil, and my friends thought it was very weird. How times have changed eh?! She also used to make potato salad by tossing the warm sliced new potatoes in olive oil and add chopped spring onions and chopped parsley - it was lovely - but again friends though olive oil was just for putting in your ears!

I just use oven chips now, haven't had a chip pan for over 25 years, can't be doing with the smell.?

Only potato wedges here - home made, sprayed with a little oil and oven baked.

Oven chips here, would prefer homemade cooked in lard but seems a faff for one person.

Marydoll, got it in one!

Rarely had chips as a child, my mother did not like fried food of any kind, so everything was grilled or boiled.

I have never had a chip pan.if I want chips I shallow fry them or eat out.

Yes sometimes cooked in olive oil,reminds me of Greece.

When DH was alive he would cook chips in an electric fryer they were delicious I did manage to stop him using lard and use oil though. I now use oven chips occasionally.

Sounds delicious, Daddima! Just like my mother did, you are not Scottish by any chance, are you?