What are you eating tonight?

Hiya,

Let's say you're using potatoes when cooking a meal at home. Call em fries or chips.

So how do you cook them things? Are they always deep fried and if so what kind of oil? Just talking about how they're served at your place. Heh, I will hold off on saying anything about what must probably be a real mushy, bland texture y'all would prefer. Won't even bring that up.

Do you actually cut the potatoes in that long french fry way?

Martin
 
dodgy said:
Hiya,

Let's say you're using potatoes when cooking a meal at home. Call em fries or chips or whatever.....doesn't matter.

So how do you cook them things? Are they always deep fried and if so what kind of oil? Just talking about how they're served at your place. Heh, I will hold off on saying anything about what must probably be a real mushy, bland texture y'all would prefer. Won't even bring that up.

Do you actually cut the potatoes in that long french fry way?

Martin
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If new-crop potatoes I boil and eat them with the skin.
If not I peel them. Still boiled.

Larger potatoes are baked in the oven.

Never fry potatoes myself :)
 
dodgy said:
Hiya,

Let's say you're using potatoes when cooking a meal at home. Call em fries or chips.

So how do you cook them things? Are they always deep fried and if so what kind of oil? Just talking about how they're served at your place. Heh, I will hold off on saying anything about what must probably be a real mushy, bland texture y'all would prefer. Won't even bring that up.

Do you actually cut the potatoes in that long french fry way?

Martin
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Martin

Sssshhhh I will be cheating with the fries, oven ready !!!!! I know bad form, but we don't have a deep fat fryer. We have a halogen air oven thingy which uses little to no oil. They are thin and long cut though.
 
Darkbulb said:
Never fry potatoes myself :)
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I like you, but the disturbing lack of frying is seriously messed up,

So wait, you mean you don't use a large quantity of hot oil? I can understand that. How about using butter, like with a sauted slices thing? Tell me you don't like the taste of butter cooked foods.......I dare you.

Take them boiled taters outta the water when they're only mostly soft and then slice em and fry those in melted butter or even some kinda healthy oil. Actually, a mix would even be good. Jazz it up with a few herbs and cook each side till they're medium brown and crisp. Great texture and taste.

To save time I microwave one large baking potato for 2 minutes and finish it off in the pan.

You are missing out on something pretty good,

Martin
 
Now you see Martin, we do spuds in many ways. SWMBO does wedges, mashed, boiled roasted you name it.

But frying, well time was my old mum used a saucepan full of oil, until the day she forgot it and the damn thing caught fire. We have had fat fryers but they are messy, cleaning out the old oil is a chore too far. So either oven or the halogen oven is much easier, cleaner and healthier. If we want deep fried, well we go out. Fish 'n' chips have to be deep fried. Have you ever visited these shores and tried our fish 'n' chips ?
 
dodgy said:
Darkbulb said:
Never fry potatoes myself :)
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I like you, but the disturbing lack of frying is seriously messed up,

So wait, you mean you don't use a large quantity of hot oil? I can understand that. How about using butter, like with a sauted slices thing? Tell me you don't like the taste of butter cooked foods.......I dare you.

Take them boiled taters outta the water when they're only mostly soft and then slice em and fry those in melted butter or even some kinda healthy oil. Actually, a mix would even be good. Jazz it up with a few herbs and cook each side till they're medium brown and crisp. Great texture and taste.

To save time I microwave one large baking potato for 2 minutes and finish it off in the pan.

You are missing out on something pretty good,

Martin
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Well to be honest I do like fried potatoes but here in the states it seems really hard to find good boiled potatoes when you eat out - it's either fried, baked, mashed or double-baked.... I grew up eating a bunch of potatoes and the vast majority were plain boiled ones so when I cook at home I opt for that :)
 
Darkbulb said:
dodgy said:
Darkbulb said:
Never fry potatoes myself :)
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I like you, but the disturbing lack of frying is seriously messed up,

So wait, you mean you don't use a large quantity of hot oil? I can understand that. How about using butter, like with a sauted slices thing? Tell me you don't like the taste of butter cooked foods.......I dare you.

Take them boiled taters outta the water when they're only mostly soft and then slice em and fry those in melted butter or even some kinda healthy oil. Actually, a mix would even be good. Jazz it up with a few herbs and cook each side till they're medium brown and crisp. Great texture and taste.

To save time I microwave one large baking potato for 2 minutes and finish it off in the pan.

You are missing out on something pretty good,

Martin
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Well to be honest I do like fried potatoes but here in the states it seems really hard to find good boiled potatoes when you eat out - it's either fried, baked, mashed or double-baked.... I grew up eating a bunch of potatoes and the vast majority were plain boiled ones so when I cook at home I opt for that :)
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Best boiling spuds are new potatoes, nice and small with the skins left on.
 
Darkbulb said:
Well to be honest I do like fried potatoes but here in the states it seems really hard to find good boiled potatoes when you eat out - it's either fried, baked, mashed or double-baked.... I grew up eating a bunch of potatoes and the vast majority were plain boiled ones so when I cook at home I opt for that :)
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Got it......that makes sense to cook something you really like that's tough to find. Heh, my own question helped to confuse me.
 
dodgy said:
Darkbulb said:
Well to be honest I do like fried potatoes but here in the states it seems really hard to find good boiled potatoes when you eat out - it's either fried, baked, mashed or double-baked.... I grew up eating a bunch of potatoes and the vast majority were plain boiled ones so when I cook at home I opt for that :)
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Got it......that makes sense to cook something you love that's tough to find. Heh, my own question helped to confuse me.
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And in that note I'm off to get some tacos :D
 
Northam Saint said:
Now you see Martin, we do spuds in many ways. SWMBO does wedges, mashed, boiled roasted you name it.

But frying, well time was my old mum used a saucepan full of oil, until the day she forgot it and the damn thing caught fire. We have had fat fryers but they are messy, cleaning out the old oil is a chore too far.
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Reason I asked that question was because it takes some motivation to deep fry something and I am wondering how many people actually make the effort.

On very infrequent occasions my mom would cook home made french fries and they were a big deal. Used a big saucepan like yours did and it took watching. Small batches because of the initial drop in oil temp. Really really good. Deep fried tempura style battered thick cut sweet Vidalia onion rings is also pretty amazing.

If I might also mention, some restaurants will offer 'cottage fries'. Those are not like the thick cut slices that lots of people make at home in the oven. No, these are deep fried till a nice shade of brown. Now those are pretty good. Get em hot to order right from the fryer.

There's a place for breakfast I try and get to every month or so and they make 'chips' as a potato option with the eggs. Not on the menu but one day I noticed a customer being delivered some and asked the waitress what the hell those were.

Very thin cut like potato chips, deep fried till brown, and served in a nice pile. Hot and crunchy made to order. Whew, pretty good.

I usta hang out at a pub called the Mayflower in the late 70s and had dinner a bunch, although I mostly went there to drink and play darts. Did that for a number of years. I am guessing they knew how to prepare that fish dish, since the owner and some of the workers were Limeys.
 
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