I've never owned or..I think..eaten chips made in one of these new fangled Chip Fryers'. Leaving aside aspects of health and life expectancy.
Your advice is requested on these. How does the Chip Fryer fried chip compare to;
a) The chippy chip? Must be better..surely!
b) The chips our mams made in a frying pan in days of yore?
Arthur.
Main benefit is safety - they can't boil over on their own as a pan can due to having a thermostat. And if you cause them to overflow though whatever reason, there's no flame or whatever below to ignite that oil.
Otherwise, the results they give are the same if you use the same fat or oil in a pan.
I find they're very nice - and of course freshly made with just the right crisp outer and soft inner!
The fryers are thermostatically controlled and therefore safer than the old fryers.
We have a Kenwood, which comes apart for cleaning. Nearly all the parts (body, lid, filter, basket and pan) can be put in the dishwasher, leaving just the power pod (dial and cable, basically) to wipe down.
How do you dispose of the oil?
Dunno...my wife does that. I think she pours it into an old Coke bottle...
You can always do an engine conversion on your car. IIRC there is some guy in the USA who did this and now gets all his fuel free from his local diners.
Don
Probably.
Impossible.
There's no conversion to do. Strain the chip fat through a pair of ladies' tights (come on fellas - we've all got a pair) and add a bit of diesel to thin it out a bit. It's still subject to tax, though, I think at the same rate as petrol or diesel.
On the other side of the coin, repeatedly used veg oil is the source of damagingly high levels of oxidants. Oxidants cause some of our very worst health problems.
Yes, crunchy chips is nice, but I'll stick to cooking them in a small amount of fresh oil myself.
NT
So do I, but I still get crunchy chips - what's the correlation?
Mary
Dunno why, but I have this mental image of hundreds of petrol mowers etc., spewing forth chip fumes next year ;-)
Don
Making bio-diesel is a bit more complicated than filtering chip fat:
In message , Arthur writes
Doesn't it all boil down to what the chips are fried in ?
Some oils have a lower boiling temperature and so don't crisp off the chips
A chip fryer is just a means of heating the fat / oil
Get thee some good old chip fat if tha' wants good chips
... of course it's not that simple, it also depends on the type of potatoes used
In message , Malcolm Stewart writes
Google "bio diesel"
Speak for yourself
So, how much methanol do you add ?
Yes, I wondered about that too. I don't have a pair and Spouse doesn't need a pair.
Mary
Beef dripping.
I don't know of any which won't chip but some are better than others. I've found that Nicola, which are normally sold for salad, are excellent for chips but they do need different conditions than, say, Duke of York.
Mary
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