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Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »Also, with the price of oil as it is, wouldnt it be cheaper to buy a large portion of chips from the chippy for £1.25????
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Where do you live??? Its £2.00 in my local chippy for a large portion of chips... Good old Hereford!!!0 -
we love our deep fat fryer
we have chips once a week and often get the kids friends/ girlfriends / boyfriends come to tea on chip night as they love them so much0 -
Never fill with more than a third of oil,
wash and pat dry potatoes before adding them.
Drain them on a plate with kitchen paper.
When the oil is cold drain back into the container.
Keep a constant eye on the saucepan, take off the heat immediately you finish cooking.
The main purpose of my post is to reiterate Rikki's excellent advice. as someone who has had a fire from a chip-pan, I really wouldn't like any of you ever to have to go through it!
At eighteen years of age my partner and I lost all of our possessions, and our home, when there was a chip-pan fire in the communal kitchen where we lived.
But things can be replaced.
We were lucky; nobody was killed or injured, including the firemen who had to climb through the building to rescue people trapped on the upper floors.
20 people each day are killed or injured through kitchen fires, and chip-pan fires are the most common cause of these - 4000 each year.
To Rikki's excellent advice I would add that if you are going to use a chip pan (or saucepan with oil in), make sure you have a fire-blanket within reach and make sure you have an escape route from the kitchen.
If frying chips at home is more than an occasional treat, please consider using a deep-fat-fryer. They aren't cheap and they aren't easy to clean, but they do have thermostats and safety cut-outs.
Not to say this means you can be irresponsible with deep fat fryers either though0 -
I have a deepfat fryer and cook chips for OH once a week.. whenever I have the grandkids over to stay they always want proper chips.. they love them and never get them at home#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
Oven chips or chips from the fish and chip shop.
We don't have them very often; but I didn't like the smell when I had a deep fat fryer.0 -
I might drag mine out of the roof now I know I can reuse the oil for so long -thanks Ariba and Betterlife
I'd like to use it for things like onion bhajiis, prawn fritters, spring rolls and doughnuts occasionally.
Can anyone tell me if I'd need to keep a separate store of oil for frying spicy foods?0 -
The only things that you need a separate pan for are breaded products, breaded scampi etc.
We have a small cheap deep fryer for them.I used to be indecisive but now I am not sure.0 -
I have cooked onion rings in the past in a deep fat fryer. They do taint the oil and makes the house smell of onion rings until the oil is changed. I can see this happening with spicey food too.Sealed pot challenge #5830
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when i got married we got a rotofry . it was about £90! and in argos they still similare price. 7 years later. but it was fantastic. as needed much less oil. I do love making home amde oven chips but tbh nothing beats a portion of nice home made deep fried chip's.
i have tried once using a pan with basket ( we have gas cooker) and i was a nervous wreck. we are planning on buying another fryer soon. i would love actifry. but depends on fund's.
i don't think there anythign wrong with having fried chips. as long as everything is in moderation. if u had fried chips and food every day then it would cause a prob. but as a treat every now and then i personally don't see a prob.0 -
Hi I have now got 2 fryers, I have just got another deep fat fryer from freecycle on Saturday, as i wanted to make some doughnuts. I didn't fancy frying the doughnuts in the same deep fat fryer as the one i did HM fish and chips in. Any way the doughnuts went down a treat with not a trace of fishy taste and were loads better and cheaper than bought ones. So i have 1 for sweet things and 1 for savory. I always keep the back door open when using the fryer, can't stand the smell of oil.20p savers club
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