As others have said, it depends on the chips, what they're with and what meal it is.

Perfect triple cooked chips need nothing but salt.
Chip shop chips need salt and vinegar.
Tartare sauce if with fish.
Gravy and mushy peas with pie.
Some kind of relish with a burger.
Curry sauce is good.
Garlic mayo on chips and cheese.


Eh? Are you for real? Whatever is disgusting about it, it's just another cooking method, you may as well say an oven, microwave or slow cooker is disgusting. I love my fryer, do all sorts of great homemade things in it. Triple cooked chips, beer battered fish, onion rings, jalapeno poppers, churros, even the wonder that is a deep fried jam sandwich (fresh strawberries and jam in a brioche sandwich dipped in pancake batter, fried and served warm with a gingerbread ice cream) etc etc. You could use a pan of oil but a fryer is much easier to regulate the temperature and to get perfect chips certain temperatures are required at different stages of cooking. Agree about oven chips though, they're rubbish, if I can't be bothered to use the fryer for chips I generally do homemade potato wedges.

Only eat oven chips or own saute potatoes.
Both with mayo.

For those of you who like chips & gravy and cheesey chips then try Disco Fries.

Chips topped with cheese covered in gravy.


It's a dish popular in some northern states of the US. Probably a offshoot of the Canadian Poutine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine

For those of you that don't care about caloric intake and live life with reckless abandon there's the kapsalon. Also called a poutine à l'hollandaise.
A monstrosity of chips with kebab meat covered with copious amounts of grated Gouda cheese and put under the grill. Served with a dressed salad and garlic sauce on top.
It's not unusual to order an extra large portion that weighs in at 4000 kcal. Howzat!

Well I had two variations of that over the weekend.

Saturday was chips, doner meat with salad (lettuce, onion, cabbage) covered in garlic sauce.
Last night was chips, with doner on top and melted cheese on that. No salad though.

The first one I have quite often but with a chargrilled marinated chicken breast which is treated as the kebab.

Yep, I'm for real.

Deep fried stuff should be a treat, not a regular occurrence. And, regardless of how clean the oil is, it makes your house, hair, clothes etc smell of grease and gunks up your walls/tiles.

Yeah, my mum does that. Still not convinced. I'd rather nip out to the chippy or go without.

Who said it's a regular occurance? I don't use mine that much but it's great to have the equipment there for when you're doing a meal that needs it. I might be making burgers and just think "ooh, I fancy some onion rings", it's great having the ability to just do some nice onion rings. I don't make ice cream all the time or fresh pasta or juice but I still wouldn't be without my ice cream maker, pasta machine and juicer.
Mine doesn't make anything smell either, I imagine that It only makes stuff smell if you leave the oil in the fryer all the time, I use mine then use the handy little tap to drain the oil back into a bottle, the fryer is then cleaned and put back in the cupboard. I bought a good quality fryer and it's incredibly easy to clean.

Why should it be a treat? What's wrong with it?

Are you extracting the Michael?

No, the smell comes when you're cooking. It's horrible and I don't wNt my house smelling like that.

crumble a chicken oxo cube on your chips... lovely !!

Salt, vinegar and curry sauce

My house certainly doesn't smell bad and there's never been a bad smell when I've been using my fryer. Maybe it's that it's a good quality fryer with a filter. Oil should be thrown away as soon as it takes on a smell, maybe you've experienced people using old oil.

I don't like putting stuff on chips, prefer to dip them in sauces. My favourite 4 at the minute are Colemans Tartare, Franks Red Hot Wings, Blue Draggon Hot Sweet Chilli and Mcilhenny Fruity Habanero.
I only tried Tartare Sauce this year for the first time. The Franks and Blue Dragon sauces are not that hot but the Mcilhenny Fruit Habanero has some kick.

No. What's wrong with eating deep fried food all the time? Genuine question.

Mayonnaise. or if I'm feeling a bit unusual, parmesan.

Broon.

loads of salt. sometimes sauce if from chippy. encona hot sauce is yum too

I made my own chips yesterday (to go with fish) and mostly added salt and vinegar, but beforehand, coated potatoes in olive oil, herbs, lemon and seasoning - very nice
How do you "triple cook" chips? I've heard of them but how are they prepared exactly?

Cut your potatoes into chips. 1) Par boil & then drain and cool. 2) Deep fry cooled chips at 130-140c until the outside is starting to crisp but not colour. Drain and cool. 3) Then fry on high (180) until golden brown. Drain, season and serve.

I havent eaten chips in years but they are the best with curry sauce from the chinese in Nether Edge in Sheffield. Left Sheffield half my life ago and never found better

Yeah, this is how I do mine. Also, You should soak them in cold water for at least half an hour before you boil them too as it gets rid of excess starch.
When cooling you should try and cool them as quickly as possible so I stick mine in the freezer for a quick chill.
Definitely the best chips I've ever had.

Salt & vinegar... sometimes burger sauce.