This years Mince Pie Thread was torrid. The mighty de Natta conversation has run a dry. Speaking out about chips on the other hand is a constant source of wrong thinking, dismay, disbelief and disorder.
Bask in the greasy glow of poor taste, swim in the swap of wrong. The choice of a mans chip says a lot about him
I’ve done some experimentation with chips since buying an air fryer last month, but as mentioned upthread, there’s nothing better than triple cooked chips in animal fat (par-boil, low temp deep fry and high temp deep fry to finish) additional foo marks for letting them cool between the three cooks and for a super crisp finish, dusting with plain flour after they’ve cooled from the par-boil.
The best results from the air-fryer are with frozen pre-packaged oven chips. Ironically, (because air-fryers are supposed to help with reducing fats) this is because they are coated with copious amounts of (frozen) fat.
The ranking on this list changes depending on mood and the situation but this is a rough hierarchy of my chip preferences from best down.
Pub chips, proper thick lob on crispy beef dripping cooked ones must be at least 600 calories per chip and be sprinkled with vinegar
Belgian fries, thin crispy and covered in enough salt to wipe out every slug currently alive on the planet
Thin crisp fries covered in truffle oil and a shaving of Parmesan for when I eat chips with my little finger pointing up
Skin still on average sized fries within a dirty souvlaki wrap preferably cooked by someone who has more hair on their forearms than I do on my head
Kebab shop chips with doner ‘meat’ covered in so much burger sauce you can’t see the chips or doner. This has to be at the point I am so drunk if I don’t immediately eat this and go home I would probably just have a seizure and die
Yes, although my adopted Grandmother’s Belgian Fries were absolutely delicious. Homemade is always best with these. I was trained how to makw then. Later this year, I will start practising…