Chips!!!

Lard
Beef Dripping
🤢🤮

I'm with kittylester, you have to be seriously careless to set a chip-pan alight, and the main culprits were drinkers falling asleep with the pan over the flame.

That maybe accounts for the fact that I get a high percentage of small ones.

kittylester

Where do you live Rosie? Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose sell them round here.

London, and yes I can still find them but not guaranteed and not always the quality they used to be. Maris Peer, the new potato variety even harder. When I googled it this came up

Maris Piper and Maris Peer potatoes can be hard to find because farmers are actively moving away from growing them. These varieties are "agronomically challenging"—making them prone to weather extremes, diseases, and lower profit margins. Additionally, recent severe flooding has significantly reduced yields and driven up prices.

Agree with pregpaws3 - My advice to Glenfynnon is to tell the DH that if he's anything close to 'elderly' he should be nowhere near a deep fat fryer and neither should she. I once knew someone who thought he was invincible and despite being relegated to an outside balcony by his wife to make his beloved chips that way, still managed to cause a fire by just taking his eye off the ball for a second. Why encourage danger? We had a thread only last week about age-proofing our houses - I think deep fat fryers are definitely on the list of what's not appropriate any longer.

I cook them occasionally, but I use my wok and it’s only real potatoes for me. Absolutely delicious.

I have a memory as a very young child, of our kitchen being black. Seems it was a chip pan fire. I've had a real fear of chip pans ever since. DH bought an electric one a few years ago but that still terrified me when the chips went in. I think he only used it a couple of times. Too much fuss cleaning it and the smell lingered.

I still cook my own chips in deep oil. I twice cook them and they are delicious, knocking spots off oven chips. We don’t have them often but really enjoy them when we do. A habit I acquired in Tge Netherlands is to have them with mayonnaise. It is a good job they are an occasional treat.

Make your own ftom real potatoes much nicer as youhave aderpfat fryer...why buy fozen?

Where do you live Rosie? Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose sell them round here.

I'm assuming Glenfinnan has bought an electric deep fat fryer which is much safer than the stove top saucepan type. The temperature of the fat is thermostatically controlled. I've had a few over the years when I had resident children, never ever came close to a fat fire, never ever a burnt offering.
I like Maris Piper potatoes for chips (which I do in the oven these days) but they are getting harder to find.

I’d never heard of a chip pan in real life until I was in my 20’s, we didn’t have one, I think I only had chips rarely from the chip shop.

I will say again - i never managed to start one.

pregpaws3

Hope you’ve got a good fire blanket, many domestic fires are caused by chip pans

our local fire brigade used to give a regular public
demonstration of a chip pan fire. Very dramatic and it's a lot easier than you might think :-(

We used to have chip-pan chips weekly too. despite me having ADHD & being generally accident-prone, no chip-pan fires.

Mainly people coming home from the pub back in the day & fancying some chips & going to sleep while the chip pan was on , I think. Not to say that some caution isn't needed...

But, not enough to warrant missing out on an occasional treat.

I used my traditional chip pan for years and years, probably on a weekly basis, when I had a houseful of children and before I knew I was obviously ruining their health. Never had to call the fire brigade out once.

Hope you’ve got a good fire blanket, many domestic fires are caused by chip pans

Or corned beef fritters.

Fallingstar. My mum used King Edward, I used Golden Wonder, bothused beef dripping for the fryer. Goodness, going back a good few years making your own deep fried chips. Next it will be fish in batter.

petra

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Why not go the whole hog and peel a few potatoes?
Be nicer!

And cooked in lard. Yum yum. 😂

….and served in newspaper.

*old mum

Have tried cooking chips all manner of ways and eaten them from numerous chippys but none taste as good as my ol’ mum’s chips, and she wasn’t the greatest cook. Could be that my taste buds aren’t the same.
Am sure many of you will recall the condiments on the dinner table, salt, pepper, ketchup, brown sauce, salad cream, and because my dad loved it a jar of piccalili. People don’t tend to put these on the table anymore.

Chips from our youth were fried in Beef Dripping so it might not be wise to go down that path.

Thank you all for your comments!

I buy mccains chips from tesco. they're really nice to eat - crisp on the outside and soft in the middle. I usually get the straight cut ones.