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Chips!

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Liz46 Fri 08-Sept-17 20:18:47

We use an Actifry, Maris Piper or King Edwards and a small amount of rapeseed oil. You rinse the starch off the chips, dry them thoroughly and then cook - very good.

My stepgrandchildren stayed with us for a few days. I didn't notice them watching me make chips but when their mother collected them a couple of days later they both ran towards her saying 'nanny Liz made chips OUT OF POTATOES!'

Obviously they are supposed to come out of a plastic bag in the freezer and the children had no idea that they are made from potatoes.

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CherryHatrick Fri 08-Sept-17 20:10:36

Deep fat fryers are usually made to be used with oil; proper chips need to be made in a proper open chip pan with beef dripping or lard as the frying medium. grin

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Nanabilly Fri 08-Sept-17 20:08:01

I do ours in a wok. Chip dryers take up extra space that we don't have.

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Ilovecheese Fri 08-Sept-17 19:58:24

Why not just go to the chippy once a week? Save all that cleaning out of the deep fat fryer.

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Kateykrunch Fri 08-Sept-17 19:51:13

We had oven chips with a meal yesterday and we both thought they were very tasteless and we starting hankering after good old proper homemade chips, you know the ones, real potatoes!! So, I am looking at little deep fat fryers, one nice and cheap in Argos, reviews say its smashing, but, some say they are confused that the instructions state to use it with the lid up, now wouldn't that just be like using an ordinary chip pan? Any recommendations?, I know, I know, chips and fat, but hey, it will only be once a month (err okay then, week).

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