The price of fish and chips

[youngoldbloke]

Carlo's Alnwick - haddock and chips, £6.90, excellent as always. Traditional first night meal when we visit. In a box to take away, but forgiveable as kept them hot until back in Lesbury.

 

[Tin Pot]

So I'm getting cod and chips for £5.99 here in eastbourne (£1 is Vat).

Wondering if I could get a few, stick them in a heat regulating bag and get them home 1hr 45 mins) for dinner and still be good?

 

[classic33]

£9.70 at a chipshop in York. I left when they said the price.

 

[petek]

Massive haddock cooked to order is £4-50 in our local chippie.
Cod is £4 and they generally have some in the warmer.
I always choose haddock.
Chips depending on portion size, £1, £2 or £2-50.
The £2-50 portion-size of chips will feed 4 hungry people.

 

[youngoldbloke]

So I'm getting cod and chips for £5.99 here in eastbourne (£1 is Vat).

Wondering if I could get a few, stick them in a heat regulating bag and get them home 1hr 45 mins) for dinner and still be good?

As the nearest F&C shop is at least 20 minutes away by car IME better to let them cool and then plate up and pop in the microwave. Otherwise they'll be lukewarm and soggy by the time you get back.

 

[srw]

the microwave.

(Shakes head sadly)

If there's one thing guaranteed to reduce fish and chips to a soggy mess it's a microwave.

 

[raleighnut]

^^^^^^^^^^+1

Baking tray in the (preheated before you go to the Chippy) Oven ......................10 minutes to warm back up

 

[Tin Pot]

Could be. It's not massive, I don't even know if it's fresh caught - but I like the idea of F&C from a chip shop on the promenade.

 

[NorthernDave]

So I'm getting cod and chips for £5.99 here in eastbourne (£1 is Vat).

Wondering if I could get a few, stick them in a heat regulating bag and get them home 1hr 45 mins) for dinner and still be good?

Probably not - they'll sweat in the wrapper and the bag, and the bag won't keep them hot enough for that length of time so they'll be a cold soggy mess by the time you get home.

£9.70 at a chipshop in York. I left when they said the price.

Mind you, York has been getting ideas above itself for a while now.

 

[srw]

^^^^^^^^^^+1

Baking tray in the (preheated before you go to the Chippy) Oven ......................10 minutes to warm back up

Or you can live three minutes walk from the chippy....

 

[classic33]

Probably not - they'll sweat in the wrapper and the bag, and the bag won't keep them hot enough for that length of time so they'll be a cold soggy mess by the time you get home.





Mind you, York has been getting ideas above itself for a while now.

If the fish were bigger they may have had some chance.

 

[raleighnut]

Or you can live three minutes walk from the chippy....

What if the kebab shop is closer though

 

[classic33]

What if the kebab shop is closer though

Next door to one another, with a pizza shop & a chinese before them.

 

[youngoldbloke]

(Shakes head sadly)

If there's one thing guaranteed to reduce fish and chips to a soggy mess it's a microwave.

- works for me. I can't wait for the oven.

 

[stephec]

What if the kebab shop is closer though

You keep on walking right past it to the chippy.