Chips

tiger_eyes

I enjoy making oven chips. I just peel them, slice them into chips, give them a light coating of oil, then into the oven for thirty minutes or so. Minimal effort and they taste delicious.

Islandmaid

I use real spuds in the actifry taste better than frozen ones, but always have an 'emergency' bag of frozen chips in the freezer to fill teenage tums if needed. Never priced them up though.

davholla

joolzred wrote: »

Supermarket value spuds are about 50p per kilo, cheapest oven chips I've seen are about 65p per kilo. I use both!

Actually at tesco I saw chips less per kilo than spuds - but I think they have added water.

krlyr

davholla wrote: »

Where did you get 25Kg of potatoes from?

Several farmshops near me sell 25kg sacks. Not quite as cheap as £5, but between £8-12 last time I asked, depending on variety

burtha

hi .. I also picked up a 25kg bag 2 days ago for £5, local veg shop ..

armyknife

Evil_Olive wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that an oven uses a lot more fuel than a hotplate so that has to be taken into account as well if you're buying the 'oven chip' variety of frozen chips.

I find home made in a chip pan loads cheaper than even value brand frozen if you buy a big bag of pots and they taste so much nicer.
I also keep a bag of frozen for emergencies/when I'm short of time and for when I'm doing the meat/fish part of the meal in the oven anyway...

I'm not so sure about that. You only have to heat up some air to about 200C in the oven, whereas what temperature does a chip pan have to be and and crucially the specific heat capacity of cooking/vegetable oil is going to be a lot higher than air at a given volume.
Though obviously you oven may be X times larger than the volume of oil used in the fryer.

Ken68

Morrisons and Farmfoods are selling unwashed taters at present...about 28p kg...farm gate or boot sale prices are from £5 per 25kg.. 20p kg.
Lidl cheap chips are 53p kg but as mentioned maybe a lot of water.

Money_maker

davenport151 wrote: »

Just to tag onto this -what do you lovely old stylers do with the cuttings from potatoes that have been used for chips?

Boiling them up for a warm mash for the hens

elona

If you scrub the potatoes well before you peel them for chips then the peelings can be sprayed with low fat or drizzled with oil , herbs, garlic or spices sprinkled over and baked on oven tray till golden.

They come out of the oven like posh crisps and if you don't let on what they are everyone likes them.

flea72

elona wrote: »

If you scrub the potatoes well before you peel them for chips then the peelings can be sprayed with low fat or drizzled with oil , herbs, garlic or spices sprinkled over and baked on oven tray till golden.

They come out of the oven like posh crisps and if you don't let on what they are everyone likes them.

As the fryers on, why not just fry the crisps?