On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:11:18 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Huge wrote:
They were brill. I'd forgotten how ****e oven chips are.

I knew that the one and only time I tried them. As are the standard
'canteen' chips that come out of a plastic sack ready to fry.


Yesterday I found myself out buying Sunday Dinner and the store had no
potatoes.The car was running a bit sick so I didn't want to to go on anywhere
else so I took home a pack of frozen Mc Cains French Fries, (Like Mac D's
chips) they cooked very well in about 1 minute in an electric fryer, (deemed
to be cooked when the first few chips started to float) and were surprisingly
good.

For good chips you need good potatoes and good hot oil or fat - depending
on preference. Fat will give the most taste.

I've heard it said success with chips also depends on how long the potatoes
have been stored. Something to do with the starch changing over time. My
research so far has been inconclusive except in so far as to note that chips
made with new potatoes, when the first large new potatoes come available,
aren't much cop.

DG