chips

However, triple-cooked potato chips are wonderful!

I make sweet potato chips, love them but DH doesn't like them. I cut them up, shake them around in a poly bag with a little oil then cook in the oven at the same time as his horrible oven chips.

I do exactly the same as 'nannypiano'. I recall as a child, over 70 years ago, that a neighbour always cooked delicious chips on an oil-stove at the bottom of her garden.

My daughter swears by sweet potato chips which cook quickly in the oven with little oil/fat and have fewer calories. I quite like them.

When I do chips I cook Tesco's Finest thick cut chips or Waitrose own chunky home fries which have the least calories of any. Both are nice.

My happy "chip" memory is of going Carol Singing with my pals then buying delicious chips from the fish n'chip shop with our profits. (We didn't realise that we were supposed to give the money to charity!)

3 pages - who would have thought? Well I did really, chips are one of our main traditional foods.
One of my happiest memories as a child, about 12, going to the chippy, famished, on a fresh autumn evening and coming out with a newspaper full off hot tasty chips with salt and vinegar.
I can even remember where the shop was (Plessey Road Blyth.)

Never been able to fry chips without burning them..SO... I either buy some from the fish and chip shop and freeze half for another time or i slice potatoes and put them in the oven with a spray of oil..depends on how much time I have.

Hate the smell of anything being fried, and always trying to lose weight too due to long term steroids..my chips are done in oven.. sprayed in Fri-lite and then sprinkled with a couple of beef or chicken oxos for about 20 mins on gas 5 ..turn over spray again and sprinkle with another oxo for another 20 mins .. very tasty ...

Oven chips for me too. I like the French Fries but have recently had M&S fresh
Chunky Cod with chunky chips. They are delicious so will be a regular on our meal times.

Have just started buying McCain treble fried chips they are a bit dearer but worth it .i also make slimming world ones and sprinkle them with celery salt .

Go to the best chippy you can find. NO contest.

We too had a crinkle cut chip thingy. I used to hate the smell when the lard was changed and the new block went in...yuk.

I dislike frozen chips and use an Actifry and Maris Piper potatoes, with rapeseed oil.

My young step-grandchildren stayed with us for a few days but I didn't notice them watching me in the kitchen. When their mother came to collect them they ran up to her shouting 'Nanny Liz made chips AND SHE USED POTATOES!'

Chips are obviously meant to come out of a plastic bag from the freezer.

I have an electric deep fat fryer and fry oven chips in it. OH doesn't like them cooked in oven. They cook really quickly and are very nice.

But like others, I can't stand the smell which permeates the house afterwards.

What a great idea, nannypiano.

I might just try that.

I also tried the Nigella chips, but it took forever for the oil to get up to the required temperature and I had to keep watching. The result wasn't worth the effort.

I have a crinkle cutter too, which I use for chips on the rare occasion I make them properly, and carrots.

I am behind the times and tonight am doing an oven baked risotto following the thread on them the other day.

How many GN's are having chops tonight after reading all these posts? Me for one!

We also had a crinkle cutter for chips - they didn't call my mum Mrs Bucket for nothing.

I've done the Nigella chips and they were lovely but cleaning the oil etc after wasn't worth it!

Yes, we have chips 1-2 times weekly.

Scrub, cut, soak potatoes in water, carefully dry, rub with oil, salt, bake at 200, 30 minutes.

On the subject of oven chips, I lurve Albert Bartlett.... his chips that is, never met him in person (just in case his wife is a GN-er.) But if he's anything like his chips, he's gorgeous . They are the nearest thing to homemade IMO.

My DMiL made the best crinkle cut chips in her fryer with basket. I tried a couple of times to emulate without success. Now I cut unpeeled potatoes grown by us, toss them in whatever oil appeals at the time with sea salt, ground black pepper and smoked paprika and cook in a hot oven until they are crispy. Yummy but still not a patch on DMiL's.

I love chips. The nicest oven chips I find are McCains crinkle cut chips, they are really crispy unlike the straight ones and only have potatoes and oil in the ingredients. I have come across a strange recipe for chips by Nigella Lawson which I am going to try, : slice potatoes with skin on, pat in tea towel, put in COLD oil to cover chips, bring to the boil, turn to medium for 15 mins, add garlic in skins, sprig rosemary, cook for 5 more mins. When I was young living at home we had a crinkle cutter for chips, didnt know anyone else who had this, my friends still remember our crinkle cut chips cooked in a deep fat fryer. mmmh delicious.

add not aid!!!

We have a problem with the smell of fried food from our neighbours either side.

In the summer i can not have any windows open at the back of the house if they start cooking as the smell wafts into our bedrooms upstairs and the lounge and kitchen downstairs.

Sometimes it smells really appetizing and other times its gross!!

I think it depends on when they have changed the oil in the cooking utensil.

We rarely fry food as
1.it doesnt agree with us.
2. we hate the lingering smell
3. we are always trying to watch our weight, not sucessfully i might aid as there are plenty of food items that fatten but dont smell!!!

I'm not laughing Nannypiano, not only do I cook my chips out on the patio, I also cook a chicken in my rotisserie oven alongside. The neighbour dogs go crazy, we get to eat yummy chicken and chips and the house dosent stink.

I use the method described by meandashy, although I pre-cook a batch of jacket potatoes when the oven is on and freeze them. Thaw, or microwave them for 5 minutes, then slice and coat with oil, sprinkle with salt and cook in the oven on a baking tray. They are a quick alternative for roasties too, depending what shape you cut them into. Being pre-cooked they only take 15 minutes. My friend uses this method with McCain's frozen jackets.