Oh awesome. Another thread where English people are weird about food.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
JK
It made me laugh though because ime oven fries are the only kind I've ever seen anyone in the US make at home. I know you can get a deep fryer for the house but I've never seen one before.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
Wait a second. The OP is American? This is even weirder now!
You've seriously never seen Ore Ida (or whatever) fries?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
https://www.mccain.ie/custom/uploads/2015/10/49305-Micro-Chips-SC-4pack-R-ROI-HR_500px-1.png
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 26 June 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
Well, I think we can all agree those are just wrong.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
i actually scanned to see if there's any record of chip-pan style cooking tools being illegal in USA. understandably, the term "chip-pan" is not used, not sure what you'd call that. i mean, it's a chip-pan hellscape in UK from what i can see in google, yet that is not "a thing" here, and i've not seen a pan with a lil basket like that really.
from what i can tell, my people put away chip pans, bought handguns when they got here, and decided that would drunk entertainment.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
"be drunk entertainment"
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
you'd use a deep fat fryer. presumably there was some kind of pan equivalent before fryers, altho i'm just guessing.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 26 June 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
you'll get my chip-pan when you pry it from my hot, incinerated fingers.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
they actually taught us at school how to not burn your house down using a chip pan. i bet kids today don't learn essential life skills like that any more.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 26 June 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
I'm an American and I've fried chips/fries in a stockpot (and drained into a colander because I didn't have a basket) but I hadn't heard of chip pans until now. I wasn't aware that homemade chips were such a big thing in the UK (I figured ppl usually just bought them at chip shops) nor that every mid-sized UK town has a monument to its chip fire dead. to me oven fries still signify bad public school cafeteria food, and I'm skeptical of these recent cryofreezing breakthroughs that have apparently rendered these things edible over the past 10 years.
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
But you knew they existed!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
You've seriously never seen Ore Ida (or whatever) fries? like i know about tater-tots do those count? it's like i always suspected then, it's not that britishes are weird, it's that my parents sucked. deprived of oven-chips. on the plus, our place dint burn down, so there's that.
thanks for the education all! glad safer food prep is happening all around, for real.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Tots def count. Also, I wouldn't say you were deprived. Like unreg said, they were pretty gross until recent years.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
lol, I'm pretty sure I learned about them by googling something like "can you fry french fries without a deep fryer", which is how I've acquired most of my culinary knowledge over the years
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
(unrelated, but I was in my early 20s when I first realized that there was such a thing as stovetop popcorn. until then I'd assumed the only options were air-popping and microwaving)
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
you never heard about the midlands burning down because of popcorn?
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
I think at one point a few years ago it looked like exploding vape-charger fires had become the new "chip-pan fires" of the UK, but maybe that was a bad batch chargers.
― calzino, Monday, 26 June 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
Home fries in the states, right?
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
nah, home fries are more like chunks of potato
― kinder, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
I know someone whose freezer doesn't have oven chips in <:-O
surely all freezers contain peas, chips, fishfingers and a piece of grey unidentifiable meat in a plastic freezer bag?
― kinder, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
That's all we did tbh
Another of the great cultural divides then
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
pan-fried though
― kinder, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
isn't 50% of We Want Plates about chips served in miniature fryers
― kinder, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
we never had a chip pan when I was a kid (deep fat fryer cos we were posh) and yet I daren't even risk making falafel these days due to the fear of hot oil instilled in me by those '80s safety ads
― Number None, Monday, 26 June 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
I'm absolutely terrified of deep fat frying due to same and have literally never deep fried anything
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 June 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
We had a chip pan with a basket when I was a kid. Mind you, it was none of this fancy oil stuff, it was good old dripping. I used to be fascinated by the exact point it had started to melt enough the basket could get lifted out, and by the last bit to melt (which always ended up in the centre of the basket) and how long I could keep it solid by lifting it out periodically. Fun for all pre-schoolers, hot fats.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 26 June 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
These Fry Daddy things were fairly popular in the US growing up in the 70s/80s. Everyone that has used one has probably a couple scars on their hands or knuckles from them. I think the Arrested Development 'Corn Baller' from Mexico jokes are kinda remembering these things.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a9/3e/d5/a93ed52ea3794caea0b0d84e64f75ddf.jpg
We had one but we didn't use it much. It was a witch to clean. We would have fried potatoes/hash browns made in an iron skillet.
― earlnash, Monday, 26 June 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
when I moved into my first ever flat I inherited some revolting old plug in chip fryer the previous (probably incarcerated or dead) tenant left behind. I am ashamed to say I actually used the fucking thing a few times. The stench of it still haunts me to this day.
― calzino, Monday, 26 June 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
fear of hot oil instilled in me by those '80s safety ads
yep, same here. also, what happens to all that oil once it's been used?
― new noise, Monday, 26 June 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
You reuse it a few times but then yeah, you really shouldnt toss it down the drain. Tho I suspect a lot of people did?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
Aussie insurance ad from the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2xalBSGXI
Those are the stuffiest sounding aussies ever?
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
Not everyone speaks like Paul Hogan :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
But yeah the joke when I was a kid was that, heck if your kitchen was on fire you'd hardly go "oh my goodness, the chips!" rather than "OH FUCK MY FUCKING KITCHEN IS ON FUCKING FIRE"
That's what I meant, wasn't talking about enunciation.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
(Obv I was)
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
Alarmist PSAs about deep fryers seems
― Je55e, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
Oops
Dropped my phone in a vat of grease.
...seems very niche or like they were made in response to a highly publicized incident, not necessarily b/c there was an epidemic of chip fryer fires. Or was there?
― Je55e, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
how come nobody ever blows up their kitchen frying latkes?
we used to make really good latkes in the oven, using a muffin pan
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
I need to dig that recipe out again and post it somewhere
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
oil down the drain = FATBERGS
they weren't alarmist ads for deep fat fryers
They were for chip pans, which is just a pot with a fryer basket
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 06:54 (six years ago) link
yeah one of the USPs of deep fat fryers was you weren't supposed to be able to burn your house down with them
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 07:01 (six years ago) link
Would love one of those teaspoon of oil fryers but they seem inordinately expensive.Not really heard what the chips etc produced are like.
Also surprised that somebody would buy oven chips then fry them. I thought supermarkets sold precut chips without whatever processing made them oven chips.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link
My parents used to own a Zyliss potato chipper (a fantastic piece of early 70s industrial design) and a chip pan (a grease encrusted lump of metal - IIRC it was dark blue and the bakelite knob on the lid doubled as an adjustable vent). The chipper came with two cutters: wide and narrow. My parents never used the narrow one.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
Our kitchens in university accommodation were sparsely equipped, but they did provide electric, thermostat-controlled deep-fat fryers, presumably to discourage students from drunkenly using a chip pan on the stove.
They are good for putting fish fingers in. Are fish fingers even a thing in the States?
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
Ah, OK, you call them fish sticks. I can't really argue with that.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Or if you're a "South Park" fan, "fish dicks."
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link