pantyfire wrote:

Wtf have kfc done with their chips.  If I wanted lacklustre chips I’d make oven  chips.

I tried some oven chips recently. Haven't tried them since I first saw them way back - probably late 70s when they were vile. They have improved quite a bit I have to say. Was surprised but I wouldn't plan on eating them. 

I'm not a huge fan of chips anyhow - when I was a kid I bit into a one that was half raw - made me throw up and I went off them for a decade or so. I only take them from the chip shop and even that is very occasional now - every 6 months or so. My weight loss antics have resulted in me totally kicking takeaway food and I have no real desire to have it any more.

I can't stand oven chips but the McCains "skin on" ones are good, as are the ones they do in the chilled aisle that come with a bag of seasoning.

Love me some well done oven chips and a fray bentos.

afgavinstan wrote:

I can't stand oven chips but the McCains "skin on" ones are good, as are the ones they do in the chilled aisle that come with a bag of seasoning.

Yeah, they're the best I've found too.

Air frying is not frying. It’s just a small oven. Fuck air fryers in the ear.

There’s a brand strategist out there somewhere who tells people they were the guy who came up with the idea of relabelling warehouses full of unsold and unwanted combi ovens as ‘air fryers’, but he never got any payment or recognition for it.

I'd wager the people making Popeye's at Manna's place are different to those making it at Kow's place.

Re: Air fryers - I've been using one for years and it makes great chips/croquettes, spring rolls, chicken tenders etc but it's not in any way a labour saving device. It makes great chips but you have to do the whole soaking and frying twice thing. Definitely not the same as oven chips.

The deep fryer I just bought is quite a bit bigger than I expected. I guess that’s one of the perils of online shopping. Now I need to pick up five litres of oil next time I’m at the supermarket …

Is this how people end up running B&Bs? By accident.

Bought a place with thermostats in each room and 5 ovens. Accidently bought a massive fryer.
Maybe have some people over. Run out of friends and relatives maybe offer the rooms up to strangers. Should charge them a small fee though.
Could use the fryer to help with breakfasts but will have to charge a bit more.

3 years later you are on a More4 omnibus of Four in a Bed under paying other couples because you found a hair under the floorboards.

Haha … I think we’re doing that plot backwards Liv. This place was built as B&Bs - the courtyard was all B&B rentals while our house was the separate one for the owners to live in. That’s why it has the ridiculous kitchen - they literally did make breakfasts for eight cottages every morning.

poprock wrote:

I got rid of my last one while we lived in a flat, for those reasons. We had an enclosed kitchen, no windows. The extractor couldn’t mitigate proper fryer action.

Technology seems to have moved on a bit and my new fryer includes an auto-filtration system and stores the filtered oil in a removable plastic tub. Seems swish.

Report back on the fryer please. I was just looking at one that has the filter and store thing today.

poprock wrote:

It’s like witchcraft. I left the fryer out overnight to cool down and in the morning it was empty, with a storage box full of clean oil beneath it. Then I put the metal parts (basket, main oil-holding bucket and lid) into the dishwasher. End result is that it’s like having a brand-new box-fresh fryer every time you use it.

What is this magic? Link?

Or like chips as in any chippy in the land... some shit being chatted itt.

Escape wrote:

When keepers are feeling themselves after a save and go straight into that piss-and-vinegar dash, as if to play the ball quickly, only to pull up and take their time.

Liking this observation.