What’s your favourite hot chip cut?
- Standard
- Steak (thick cut)
- Shoestring
- Crinkle
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I find Logan Farm brand from IGA the best frozen chips I have tried .
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Mr Z is the chip eater. He prefers the Birds Eye Deli Seasoned chips which are cut every which way creating some very long standard/thick chips, some triangular, some thin, some tiny. He hates shoestring.
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Oven baked chips are all pretty awful. They tend to end up chewy. I prefer potato gems (or whatever Aldi calls them) as they have a nice mouthfeel and crunch. They are no worse for you than chips.
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I used to “do” supermarket chips in the panasonic microwave oven before it died … it was the combination of convection and grill that did the job. Can’t wait til Amazon has a special again… I paid full price last time but now $800+ is just too much for me.
Oh yeah I voted for the “steak cut” because theres not as much oil in/on them.
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I know them as “potato gems”, but in the USA they’re “tater tots” (a proprietary name that became the generic there).
I do a NY Times Wordle every day, and a couple of months ago was surprised by the word of the day: “tater” … not a 5-letter word that springs to an Aussie’s mind.
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Living in Tassie, Australia’s potato state, we have scores of potato varieties to chose from. As a result, we now rarely buy supermarket frozen chips but make our own. Home made ones are very easy to do and taste great.
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Living in Victoria we don’t readily have a lot of choices. We found Kestrels to be our top pick for home made chips as well as crispy roasted potatoes that are nearly as good or better than chips, and lots easier.
We bought a cheap chip cutter for uniformity and cook them in a Rotofryer. We most often soak them, boil them, freeze them, 6~7 minutes at 150C, freeze them, and then 8~9 minutes at 180C. They are dramatically better chips than cutting and frying straight away.
We periodically wonder if the trouble is worth it and invariably get another package of frozen chips and realise the trouble was worth it. Potato Gems are also better from the Rotofryer. Baked chips? Reputed to be healthier but not fans.
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Politeness at home is to not torture the wise one by serving up something so tempting but outside the dietary guidelines.
Beer battered, if there is a missing button or two in the selection. Usually when out - most likely from the supermarket to the cafe’s and pubs. A specialist Providore. Assumes the pre-nurtured product will be deep fried. Several grades and varieties. Not the only product that comes semi prepared in larger than retail pack quantities.
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We found sometimes past Aldi’s straight cut and beer battered product a good choice for the Air Fryer - caution not to overcook and dry out.
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Frozen processed food appeared to be a healthy alternative but the process uses trans fat and palm oil. Surely potatoes can be frozen without them!
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Sure they can be frozen without any oils. But then how do you cook them in the oven without oil? Either you add the oil to bake them, or the manufacturer adds their oil so you don’t have to bother. Just stick them on a baking tray, and cook.
I used to buy frozen chips that had the primary cooking method of deep frying. And they were good. But now, it is all oven cooked, and they are not good.
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Buy a Kmart Airfryer - excellent for doing frozen chips. I bought kmart airfryer because it was inexpensive and I didn’t know if I would like the appliance and not wanting to risk $300+ on the big brands in case I didn’t use it. My first Kmart airfryer I had for over 3 years and I only just replaced it because I thought it wasn’t being as hot or as fast as it was intially. Cheap as. 5.3lt $89. Can do whole chicken in it. Does great scones etc.
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Sweet potato crinkle chips.
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Coles beer battered steakhouse
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I like McCains Shoestring chips
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Might seem silly bit easily make ones, self buy the , smaller potatoes slice them around 2 or 3mm and bake for 30 minutes or until choice. The frozen chips taste pretty bad i find texture to be different.
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I have begun to suspect that frozen chips are cooked and then mashed with an additive like gum arabic. Then extruded into chip shapes. Have you noticed that frozen chips are all the same size.
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Some seem to be same size but i don’t buy them anymore taste strange
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Potatoes which are used for chips have to meet a specifications imposed by the chip factory. This includes strict requirements for potato size and varieties. As a result, chips when cut will be more or less the same size. They will be the same shape as they use mechanical potato chipping machines for cutting the potatoes. This means that each chip is exactly the same shape, albeit with slightly different lengths.
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