Currently enjoying my favourite type of chip whenever I order them, pommes aka the French fry, that deliciously thin and crispy potato chip perfected by McDonalds, I've been pondering it's many cut potato rivals.
Chipshop or chippy chips. I grew up with these, a portion on my lap at least once a week. Once wrapped in newspaper, now served in huge sheets of off-white paper or polystyrene trays, they're not my favourite anymore. Often soggy and overly thick. Even nostalgia doesn't make them better.
Steak chips. I would order these last of all and only if I had to. Way too thick and just short of a wedge, which I really can't stand. Just as bad are chips with the skin left on. Yuk. No, steak needs fries.
Oven chips. A freezer convenience food for at home. The frozen fry is okay but nowhere near as good as it's fast food cousin. Often burnt or dried to fossil hardness, the oven chips progress must be watched if it's to come out tolerable. Thicker frozen oven chips like steak or thick cut are the pits.
Curly fries. A school invention I imagine. Often powdered like an armpit with paprika. Enough said.
Cheesy chips. Similar school innovation. Difficult to say what the chips are like given all the melted cheddar.
Crinkle cut chips. Now we're talking. A leftover from those glorious baby boomer teas we enjoyed in the Sixties, crinkle cut chips done well are second only to French fries in my book. Alas, a rarity these days, possibly endangered, I would go crinkle a lot more if I could.
Croquettes. I love them but they're not chips.
Whate are fave and least fave chips readers?
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There is a traditional Fish and Shop not that far away fro my home. Proper cut fish and chips, but not cheap any more. However they do serve a decent sized portion of nostalgic goodness.
ReplyDeleteThey also serve fruity curry too. If it wasn't down to easily putting on weight I'd be having a portion every week.
Ha ha. Yep, on a good day fish and chips is a cracking meal, plenty of salt and vinegar. My Missus likes curry sauce Bill. I think it has sultanas in it!
DeleteProperly cooked, old style, lard fried, chip shop chips, can't be beat.
ReplyDeleteNext choice, pommes frite (French fries), cooked in the French style, served with moules mariniere (mussels).
Wonderful.
You're right Woodsy, fat chips just don't work, though I don't mind skin on, as long as the skin's crispy.
Yep, it's beef fat up here, which you'll remember Mish. I have cries with anything and yep, I love McDonalds fries with a quarter pounder! As for chips and mussels, years ago I made the missus go with me to Belgo's in London, famous for it. Delicious! Not a shellfish fan, She had chicken and chips!
DeleteCrinkle cut chips, straight cut only if I have to. I do not mind wedges. Shoestring fries are not my first choice - too thin for me.
ReplyDeleteThese days nearly everything gets cooked in an Air Fryer, which I love. A wonderful invention. Every kitchen should have one.
Shoestring fries, ha ha, that's a good name. We've got an Air Fryer, still boxed! We're luddites Paul!
DeleteShoestring Fries is what is says on the bag.
ReplyDeleteThe Air Fryer is one of the most useful things in my kitchen. Unbox yours, you will love it.
Got to get the cobwebs off fist Paul 😂
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