Deep Fat Fryers

flea72

anotheruser wrote: »

I wish I had got one free when it was offered!

Home made KFC would do well in there no doubt.

I wonder if you deep fried with olive oil it would be healthy?

No. Olive oil burns at too low a temp. If the oil is hot enough, food doesnt absorb oil, as the outside seals, so technically, should be fairly healthy anyway

Steve059

Lynne brought one with her. I had my doubts about it, but battered cod & haddock, battered pork sausages and fried oven chips (not as cheap as home-made, but just so convenient) are changing my mind. Planned are apple & banana fritters. She uses corn oil, which doesn't cling to the food.

phoebe1989seb

We use ours for poppadoms and chips......proper chips made with real potatoes (triple fried)

I_luv_cats

room512 wrote: »

Do you need to change the oil each time? That's what puts me off the idea of having/using one. I don't know if I could be bothered with faffing about!

If you cook chips all the time via a chip pan or an electric fryer the oil lasts a while.

ONCE you cook anything else (meat, bread-crumb coated) the oil soon deteriorates


I miss deep-fried chicken, scampi, onion rings, donuts BUT don't miss the grease.

I have an air-fryer which does the chips reasonably

pollyanna24

How do you triple fry a chip? And what are the benefits of doing this? They taste much nicer?

See, think this is why I don't want to buy one. I can cook chips in the halogen oven or the normal oven and very occassionally, I just bung a whole load of oil in a frying pan and cook what I call "flat chips" (potatoes sliced), but if I go out and buy one, I'd probably use it wayyyyy too much! So, just going to resist.

I_luv_cats

pollyanna24 wrote: »

How do you triple fry a chip? And what are the benefits of doing this? They taste much nicer?

See, think this is why I don't want to buy one. I can cook chips in the halogen oven or the normal oven and very occassionally, I just bung a whole load of oil in a frying pan and cook what I call "flat chips" (potatoes sliced), but if I go out and buy one, I'd probably use it wayyyyy too much! So, just going to resist.

http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/t/triple_cooked_chips.A5.html

1. Place the chipped potatoes in a large pan of cold water and soak for half an hour. This removes excess starch, giving the chips a lighter texture. Rinse and place the chips in a pan with cold water and the sea salt. Bring to the boil and cook for 10–12 minutes, or until you can insert a knife easily through the centre of the largest chip. Drain and run the chips under very cold water to prevent further cooking. Pat dry with kitchen towel and arrange on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
2. Place the tray in the freezer for 30 minutes. This will make the chips nice and cold before you drop them into the hot oil to fry. Fill a saucepan a third full of oil (about 1 litre) and heat it to 130°C. Remove the chips from the freezer, pat dry with kitchen towel and carefully lower into the hot oil in batches of 8–10, cooking for 4–6 minutes, until they start to colour. Drain and continue cooking the remaining chips before cooling them in the freezer for another 30 minutes. Alternatively, prepare up to this stage a day in advance and leave them to cool overnight.
3. For the final cooking, heat the same oil to 180°C and again, lower small batches into it. Cook for 2–3 minutes or until crisp and golden. As they come out of the fryer, drain on kitchen paper and give each batch of chips a good sprinkling of sea salt. Serve with ketchup and eat while hot.

pollyanna24

Wow, that does sound like a lot of preparation to make chips! They must taste amazing to go to that amount of effort, but surely they are boiled and double fried and not triple fried (or has it got to the end of the day and I'm just being pedantic after putting my annoying kids to bed?).

I_luv_cats

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Wow, that does sound like a lot of preparation to make chips! They must taste amazing to go to that amount of effort, but surely they are boiled and double fried and not triple fried (or has it got to the end of the day and I'm just being pedantic after putting my annoying kids to bed?).

Maybe blanching (resting) and cooking in stages. I've known chippies to cook in stages.

newthrift

I don't have one but I have a 'Tefal Actifry' I love it! Have only done chips so far but can do loads more and it only uses a tiny bit of oil. Purchased it when it was black friday on amazon. The idea of all that oil makes me cringe - although happy to eat from chip shop ect as I can't SEE the oil it goes in to and I pretend I don't know :rotfl:

meritaten

you cant beat a deep fat fryer for doughnuts! and my GS absolutely loves home made chips with REAL potatoes and done in the fryer. he hates oven chips as do I, but, I don't do them often and find the fryer a bluddy PITA to clean!