Might try that next time I do home made chips.
Should I go microwave free and buy an air fryer?
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Might try that next time I do home made chips.
My favourites are Aldi Home Style but I don't know what coating (if any) they have. They are, for me, just the right size and thickness. 200° for 11 mins.... I give them a shake part way through, don't know if I should, I just do it.
fossyant
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You still can't beat real chips in a chip fryer. Even occasional use. Oh heck, that's added another gadget for Accy to decide on.
I used to love chips in a deep fat fryer.
When the grandkids came i would cut a few slices of spud into 'ginger bread' type shapes.....they enjoyed biting thier heads off.
Got rid of our fryer when they became demonised.
glasgowcyclist
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If you have an Iceland near you, try their own brand “Ridiculously Crispy” chips. They’re very good and cook quickly (6-8mins).
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Accy cyclist
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Oh don't start me off!🙄 They have a deep fat fryer in my local Tesco for about 25 quid. It does catch my eye everytime I see it, but am I to be trusted with 2 pints of boiling chip oil?!!😳 😬
Potato in the microwave for around ten minutes then oil it and bang it in the air fryer for eight minutes, lovely job.
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Accy cyclist
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Yes, thankfully you never hear of chip pan house fires these days! Every other week we'd hear of folk dying, houses going up in flames etc, after folk who'd usually had a few too many 🍺fell asleep, to be woken by the smell of burning oil, then panicking they'd throw water on the burning oil! A lad on our street I knew died must be going on for 30 years ago, when he did the water thrown on burning oil mistake. According to reports, the chip pan went up like a fireball, hitting the kitchen ceiling then spreading throughout the kitchen in seconds, then the house! The fire brigade found the lad and his mate who'd somehow survived in the house after they deemed it safe to enter. He was burnt to a crisp, beyond all recognition, according to the post mortem. His parents weren't allowed to see his body in the funeral home, for obvious reasons. 🙄
Being the type who sometimes dozes off after a few 🍺, I think I'll give a deep fat fryer a big miss!!🙄
Bonefish Blues
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Or one process in a multifunction microwave, of course.
They are illegal.
Too squidgy and soft.
You need a crispy skin on your baked spud.
EDIT
does the multi function one have that part?
I saved a neighbour's life 30 years ago by noticing the smoke, going into the house (luckily the door was unlocked) and turning off the gas.
He was too pissed to notice. Or thank me later. I don't care as I know, and that's enough.
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Accy cyclist
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A neighbour in these flats, who's a heavy drinker fell asleep after a session, setting fire to a grill pan of sausages, after falling asleep. She was lucky as her immediate neighbour smelt burning, hammered on her door to wake her, with him phoning 999! She now buys takeaways, on the advice of her carer!😏
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
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Not quite as crispy as one done in the oven for eighteen hours Dave, but there again, they aren't a patch on the ones you nicked off your mum and put in the fireworks night bonfire embers, are they?
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Accy cyclist
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No, that 6.7 litre one looks fine as I've been eyeing up 7 litre ones in Tesco and Aldi. There's a Lidl in Accrington, but it might be like the Accrington Aldi I went in the other day, searching for air fryers and microwaves. It was full of stuff, the usual Aldi jumble sale style, but no air fryers of microwaves whatsoever!😏
