doubled fried chips from chip shops

doubled fried chips from chip shops

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ging84

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8,826 posts

145 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Went to a chip shop today, something i rarely do, because i'm not a fan of soggy chips pale chips which is usually what you get.
As i was getting my order another person was making his order, and he asked for his chips to be double fried, and they seemed happy to oblige him and they didn't seem to be charging him extra or anything.
I've never come across them doing this before, so i am wondering is this a thing that most chips shops do, or perhaps just something peculiar to some of them? Is it a new thing or something places have always done?


Spare tyre

9,456 posts

129 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Belgium triple fries em

sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Double fried means they just stick them back in the oil to heat them back up.

Nothing like a triple cooked chip and to be fair if you go to a quiet chippy your chips will be fried twice or 3 times before you get them anyway.

pingu393

7,715 posts

204 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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I've just googled it to confirm my suspiscions. To do it properly, the second frying is at a different temperature. The chipshop just reheated the chips using the same oil at the same temperature.

Double fried: Recipe
Triple fried: Recipe

Baryonyx

17,990 posts

158 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Do Southerners ask for scraps with their chips?

sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Baryonyx said:
Do Southerners ask for scraps with their chips?
East london here, usually ask for scraps.

lord trumpton

7,320 posts

125 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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sc0tt said:
Baryonyx said:
Do Southerners ask for scraps with their chips?
East london here, usually ask for scraps.
thought you lot ate jellied eels? guvnor etc

Corpulent Tosser

5,459 posts

244 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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pingu393 said:
I've just googled it to confirm my suspiscions. To do it properly, the second frying is at a different temperature. The chipshop just reheated the chips using the same oil at the same temperature.

Double fried: Recipe
Triple fried: Recipe
A chip shop near us does that, or at least appear to, they have posted instructions on which pans to use for first fry and second fry and what temperature the pans are to be at, also which pans for fish etc.

As the temperature gauges are not visible to the customer I don't know if they actually do this but I had chips from there around a month ago and they were the best chip shop chips I have had in a long time, not the usual pale soggy things.

redtwin

7,518 posts

181 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Chinese chippy near me double fries their chips. When they put them back in (to order) they are a much paler colour than the finished product so I don't think it is just to reheat them.

The fat they use leaves an aftertaste which I don't like, but that is for another thread.

PugwasHDJ80

7,522 posts

220 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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All the chips in my chippies were double fried

depending on the quality of the spuds they were fried at 145degrees for 6 minutes in duck fat, then fried for 90 secs at 210 in a mixture of vegetable oils.

This way you got amazing tasting chips and you only ever had to wait 90 secs for fresh!

calibrax

4,788 posts

210 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Baryonyx said:
Do Southerners ask for scraps with their chips?
I wish. Most places down here just look at you blankly if you ask. It's definitely a Northern thing that hasn't made it's way south yet, much like the "munchy box".

My local chippy does do mushy peas though! smile

pingu393

7,715 posts

204 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Corpulent Tosser said:
A chip shop near us does that, or at least appear to, they have posted instructions on which pans to use for first fry and second fry and what temperature the pans are to be at, also which pans for fish etc.

As the temperature gauges are not visible to the customer I don't know if they actually do this but I had chips from there around a month ago and they were the best chip shop chips I have had in a long time, not the usual pale soggy things.
Whereabouts? I might give it a try when I'm on my travels.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Baryonyx said:
Do Southerners ask for scraps with their chips?
Chips and bits cloud9

The poor southerners don't even get gravy do they?

RichTT

3,047 posts

170 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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I have to ask. Scraps and/or bits of what?

Also, if you haven't done so already, please follow Heston Blumenthals technique for tripple cooked chips. Never had anything like it although it does take a bit of prep.

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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B17NNS said:
Baryonyx said:
Do Southerners ask for scraps with their chips?
Chips and bits cloud9

The poor southerners don't even get gravy do they?
I moved South to get away from chips, scraps and gravy! wink

With a spoon of mushy peas in the middle of the gravy. yuck

The Australians have a thing where they take a meat pie with a high crust, cover the top in gravy and put mushy peas in the middle. I seem to remember it was called a "Pie Floater". Bad. Very bad. Like anything, of course, there were places that could do it so well it was amazing...and others not so much.

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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RichTT said:
I have to ask. Scraps and/or bits of what?

<snip>.
scraps of batter - you get a few regardless from putting the battered stuff into the fat as batter drips off , but many northern chippies 'make' them because people like them ...