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'Homemade' chips in restaurants, pubs and takeaways
degsyhufc
07-05-2013
Are you disappointed when you go to just a half decent pub or restaurant and get frozen chips?

I'll rule out general pizza/kebab takeaways and chain pubs because you don't really expect anything more but for nice independent pubs and restaurants surely it makes sense to please customers with nice homemade chips.

Around here most of the chinese and indian takeaways & restaurants do lovely chips. Some are like chippy chips and some are more like roasties but atleast they are homemade.

I went to a local restaurant the other week and could have sworn that the roast potatoes were aunt bessies.
dosanjh1
07-05-2013
Love chips but wouldn't order them in a resteraunt or pub because they would never taste as good as my own.
Welsh-lad
07-05-2013
They do proper home-fried chips in many places around here.

I like them because they're not like chip-shop chips or all dry like frozen chips. They'r more like the ones you make yourself in a wire basket chip-pan
degsyhufc
07-05-2013
I'm a big advocate of homemade chips and think I make a very good chip myself whether it be single, double or triple fried or done in oil or dripping.


But if you're out for a nice meal and your meal doesn't have a carb such as rice or pasta then the usual options are chips or boiled potatoes. The boiled potatoes are probably just nuked so at least you might get a nice homemade chip.


But if you've spent £15-£20 on a steak and they bring out frozen chips then I doubt i'd be back there however good the steak was.
dosanjh1
07-05-2013
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“I'm a big advocate of homemade chips and think I make a very good chip myself whether it be single, double or triple fried or done in oil or dripping.


But if you're out for a nice meal and your meal doesn't have a carb such as rice or pasta then the usual options are chips or boiled potatoes. The boiled potatoes are probably just nuked so at least you might get a nice homemade chip.


But if you've spent £15-£20 on a steak and they bring out frozen chips then I doubt i'd be back there however good the steak was.”

You've got a point there, if you're paying good price for a steak dinner, the chips have to step the to the mark. If you're spending £20 quid no excuses.

Under £15 quid, I'd let it go.
Oliver Loxton-P
07-05-2013
I worked in a restaurant and the ''roast'' potatoes were actually deep fried.
Rogana Josh
07-05-2013
Just think of the calories then you won't eat as many of those chips no matter how great they taste
I also think a lot of restaurants buy steaks and other meats from Bookers and they're a lot cheaper than steaks from a local butcher and it's easy to dry age them if you know how.Check it out on Youtube.
PPhilster
07-05-2013
Originally Posted by dosanjh1:
“Love chips but wouldn't order them in a resteraunt or pub because they would never taste as good as my own.”

How would know if you never "order them?"
PPhilster
07-05-2013
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“Are you disappointed when you go to just a half decent pub or restaurant and get frozen chips?

I'll rule out general pizza/kebab takeaways and chain pubs because you don't really expect anything more but for nice independent pubs and restaurants surely it makes sense to please customers with nice homemade chips.

Around here most of the chinese and indian takeaways & restaurants do lovely chips. Some are like chippy chips and some are more like roasties but atleast they are homemade.

I went to a local restaurant the other week and could have sworn that the roast potatoes were aunt bessies.”

There's nothing wrong with "frozen chips." It's all in how they are processed and how quickly they are frozen. If the "frozen chips" you eat are bad it isn't because they were simply frozen.
dosanjh1
07-05-2013
Originally Posted by PPhilster:
“How would know if you never "order them?" ”

You've caught me out, I've ordered them!

What I mean is, if I went out for a nice meal, chips are a no no. I still love chip shop chips, Maccy D chips, chips with steak (but I wouldn't order steak if I was going out with a plan for a proper nice meal).

I always want something I dont normally make myself if you know what I mean?
Jambo_c
08-05-2013
I agree, proper chips are great. If I go out for a pub meal and they don't do homemade chips then I won't be returning to that place. There's a steak-house in our local town that does very good steaks but everything else is average, oven chips and frozen desserts. Despite enjoying my steak I've never gone back because I felt the other aspects let it down.
Gogfumble
08-05-2013
I don't care. As long as they are crispy on the outside and nice and fluffy in the middle - which you can get from frozen chips then I am happy. I would prefer a nicely cooked frozen chip to a poorly cooked homemade chip.
Jambo_c
09-05-2013
Originally Posted by Gogfumble:
“I don't care. As long as they are crispy on the outside and nice and fluffy in the middle - which you can get from frozen chips then I am happy. I would prefer a nicely cooked frozen chip to a poorly cooked homemade chip.”

I've never had a frozen/oven chip that has come close to a proper homemade chip.

I think that any chef that is half decent should be able to make a decent chip.
annette kurten
09-05-2013
always. it`s laziness.
stud u like
09-05-2013
I don't like chips. I prefer mash or sauté.
Voynich
09-05-2013
I love a "real chip". Frozen roasted potatoes are a bit of a cheat too!
degsyhufc
09-05-2013
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“I don't like chips. I prefer mash or sauté.”

Wrong thread for you then isn't it
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