Which are the best oven chips?

[johnnymarrsbars]

M&S make well nice oven chips. its either the gastropub or the cook! ones i cant remember...but they taste just like real chips.

im having some tomorrow with steak, mushrooms onions peas and some peppercorn sauce for me tea

 

[pogofish]

It's all very well everyone going on about home made chips but I don't have a chip pan and would be too scared to use it in case of a fire even if I did.

It is actually dead easy to make your own oven chips, think a recipie has been posted here before & there used to be one on the potato marketing board site.

Doing it that way, you can use the best tatties, ingredients - particularly avoiding industrial trans-fats & then freeze them yourself. IIRC, it could even be a good bit cheaper than the main brands.

 

[pootle]

M&S Frozen crinkle cut oven chips are the shizznets! They're made with russet golds or some fanci spud variety...

 

[Wookey]

Mcains Savoury Oven Fries are the least offensive, ime.

 

[sojourner]

None. There's no such thing as a good oven chip, despite what La Soj says.

Funny how, when reading through this thread, the name McCains comes up so often, isn't it, madz?

 

[madzone]

Funny how, when reading through this thread, the name McCains comes up so often, isn't it, madz?

Funny how many times people have said oven chips are minging on this thread, isn't it soj?

 

[Mallard]

TBH I don't really like oven chips for the cardboard factor. They taste pretty much the same to me. Decent chips should be well done but soft and beef dripping is required. Anything else is cack that needs a lot of gravy.

 

[sojourner]

Funny how many times people have said oven chips are minging on this thread, isn't it soj?

7-6 to McCains so far madz


How fucking sad am I, counting that?

 

[dodgepot]

mccains.

 

[sojourner]

mccains.

woohoo!!! 8-6 IN YER FACE MADZ

 

[moomoo]

Right, McCains it is then.

 

[pogofish]

M&S Frozen crinkle cut oven chips are the shizznets! They're made with russet golds or some fanci spud variety...

Russets are no fancy variety BTW, indeed they are about one of the most common worldwide.

Largely thanks to the fast food giants & industrial potato product companies who have introduced them in all sorts of non-native places because of this spud's consistancy (ie blandness) & particular suitability for industrial handling.

 

[pogofish]

Recipies:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2515/chunky-oven-chips.jsp

http://www.sausagelinks.co.uk/recipe_detail.asp?id=127

Honeyed Oven chips:

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
2. Cut the potatoes into chip-sized pieces. Mix together the honey, thyme and garlic in a bowl. Whisk in the olive oil and coat the potatoes well in the mixture. Season, place on a baking tray and cook in the oven for 35-45 minutes.

4 tbsp clear honey
1 tsp fresh thyme
1 clove garlic, chopped
4 tbsp olive oil

 

[Sunray]

Oven chips are wrong. Taste nothing like what the look like.

Buy some potatos, cut them, dry them and double drop deep fry them. How hard is that?

 

[Detroit City]

 

[ringo]

All rubbish. Curly fries win.

 

[Xanadu]

Oven chips are wrong. Taste nothing like what the look like.

Buy some potatos, cut them, dry them and double drop deep fry them. How hard is that?

It's not just ease of cooking, but healthiness too. Oven chips are really really low in fat.

 

[moomoo]

Oven chips are wrong. Taste nothing like what the look like.

Buy some potatos, cut them, dry them and double drop deep fry them. How hard is that?

Harder than 'open packet', 'shove on tray and put in oven'.

 

[PacificOcean]

They have changed the recipie of both Homefries and Aunt Bessies.

They are well rank now.

McCain's "Stringfries" are passable as Tesco own brand Steakcut Chips.

 

[rhod]

It's not just ease of cooking, but healthiness too. Oven chips are really really low in fat.

So much so that McCains are advertising their latest Rustic chips under the banner "Eat More Greens" !!

 

[Mitre10]

They have changed the recipie of both Homefries and Aunt Bessies.

They are well rank now.

McCain's "Stringfries" are passable as Tesco own brand Steakcut Chips.

I noticed this!!

Thought it was just me. In the past, if I had to pick an oven chip I would go for the Aunt Bessies but they have fucked them right up.

Dunno about now, might try the M&S ones that have been recommended elsewhere but you really can't beat a proper chip. Sod how fattening they are, just don't eat a bucket of them every day and you'll be alright.

 

[rhod]

Tried some McCains "Gorgeous" Oven Chips today, and for an oven chip they are rather splendid (if expensive). Must be the beef dripping they contain

 

[mentalchik]

I haven't eaten proper chips in fucking ages........


haven't actually fried chips myself at home for literally years and years.........don't like the smell !


no chippy near me i'm afraid

 

[Geri]

Buy some potatos, cut them, dry them and double drop deep fry them. How hard is that?

Pretty impossible without a deep fat fryer or chip pan.

 

[fractionMan]

Fuck me, I actually agree with madz about something food related.

 

[matrix_22]

Aunt Bessie FTW - Anything frozen by Aunt Bessie is FTW

 

[bikergrrl]

Aunt Bessies are lovely oven chips.

 

[matrix_22]

Aunt Bessies are lovely oven chips.

yeah and so are aunt bessie roast potatoes, stuffing, yorkshire puds - anything

 

[tarannau]

Pretty impossible without a deep fat fryer or chip pan.

Eh? Any pan would work surely. Don't overfill and perhaps don't use a flimsy thing from the pound shop, but you can deep fry in pretty much anything.

 

[Fullyplumped]

Eh? Any pan would work surely. Don't overfill and perhaps don't use a flimsy thing from the pound shop, but you can deep fry in pretty much anything.

Not safely you can't.

Chip pan fires cause one fifth of all accidental dwelling fires attended by the Fire and Rescue Service in the UK each year. Nearly 20 people are killed or injured every day in accidental fires that start in their kitchen, the most common of these caused by deep fat frying.