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Old 01-03-2009, 20:12
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I usually buy Mccain microwave chips in small boxes but they are expensive!
Is it possible to make your own or can you you oven chips and microwave them instead?

Advice or tips appreciated.
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Old 01-03-2009, 20:48
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Do you have a combi microwave? If so you will be able to bake or grill your chips as well as nuke them. You may need a special tray to get the best effects.


As for over chips just using the microwave then I would guess that they are mostly cooked then frozen and the microwave just defrosts and heats them. They probably also have special packaging to reflect the heat.
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Old 01-03-2009, 20:50
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i agree with degsyhufc. i was going to say they were already cooked aswell.
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Old 01-03-2009, 21:00
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Thanks for the advice.
Just done some experimenting:
I microwaved some oven chips on a browning dish for 3 minutes.
I think they were a little crispy so might reduce cooking time or add more chips next time.
The chips were quite greasy, so i dried them with some kitchen towel.
Not quite the same a Mccain but they were only Iceland's cheap oven chips. Trying mccain branded ones might help next time.

Mccain oven chips are made from potato's and sunflower oil!
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Old 01-03-2009, 21:04
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if your experimenting, what you could try is...

take a mccain box eat the chips in it first , then put your own chips in the box and see what that does......

do post the results of course
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Old 01-03-2009, 21:32
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I've often cooked oven chips in the microwave (just a normal one, no grill or anything fancy).

I just place kitchen towel around them to absorb the grease (as recommended above).
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Old 01-03-2009, 21:34
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I've often cooked oven chips in the microwave (just a normal one, no grill or anything fancy).

I just place kitchen towel around them to absorb the grease (as recommended above).
how long for? i think when i've tried them randomly in the past they were soggy.
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Old 02-03-2009, 10:21
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Buy a chip pan
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Old 02-03-2009, 14:36
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Buy an oven.
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Old 02-03-2009, 15:32
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If you oven cook Mccains oven chips and have too many left, if you leave them to go cold and microwave them them taste EXACTLY like Mccains microchips.
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Old 02-03-2009, 16:53
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If you oven cook Mccains oven chips and have too many left, if you leave them to go cold and microwave them them taste EXACTLY like Mccains microchips.
So just cook them the night before you want them then nuke them for 30 secs to get that authentic flavour
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Old 02-03-2009, 17:20
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If you oven cook Mccains oven chips and have too many left, if you leave them to go cold and microwave them them taste EXACTLY like Mccains microchips.
Yeah, nasty.
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Old 02-03-2009, 19:36
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If you oven cook Mccains oven chips and have too many left, if you leave them to go cold and microwave them them taste EXACTLY like Mccains microchips.
So i could cook some chips tonight and take them to work for lunch to microwave? cool
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Old 12-03-2015, 16:31
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Experimented today.
Made fresh chips then cooked in sunflower oil for 5 mins until light brown. Cool of and freeze. Next day or when reqired put in a dish lined with absorbant kitchen paper and micowave for 2 x 1 min.
just like Mccains microwave chips. Now making a batch tobag and freeze for quick chip making. Good luck.
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Old 17-03-2015, 11:23
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Wow, this thread is old.
I have never ever tried Microwave chips, TBH, I imagine that they will be soft and sloppy, but I could be wrong.
I presume the box must do something.

Best oven chips are the ones you make yourself in a oven. Peal and cut your spuds, put then on a tray, put some oil on them and cook in a nice hot oven. If you have a air fryer use that,.
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