Three Times Fried Chips

[jagjag]

Does anybody else like me dislike this description, with the chips either in a little bucket or piled in a little heap next to the meat. I am afraid I can't see the point in this ,just so pretentious.

[EcclesCake]

I like crispy chips that are fluffy on the inside. Cooking them three times achieves this, how is that pretentious?

[jubieanna]

prententious or not they are soooo nice

[ChillDoubt]

They sound rather scrummy to me!

http://www.redonline.co.uk/food/recipes/heston-blumenthal-triple-cooked-chips

[gingejbee]

Probably not pretentious if you do them yourself....but highly pretentious if paying a tenner for a little heap of them?

[Sycamore3House]

For those of us that can remember what real chips taste like I find we do not need a description as such. My Grandma made the best chips ever which she cooked in dripping. I still try to copy every so often. I think foodies make us feel that we have not achieved perfection in creating a meal unless it looks like a picture on a plate.

[Tilly2]

My meals always look like a picture 'The Wreck of the Hesperus'

[Mamyalynne]

All my life I have made chips using the 'twice cooked' method, rarely make from scratch now but do sometimes do them 'Thrice' - Pretentious Moi??

[diddlydo]

It's chip in a bucket that I can't stand - just pointless. And the only time I had thrice fried chips I would more accurately have described them as burnt.

[shaneystar2]

I rarely cook chips at home .I get a bag of chips fried in beef dripping on the local market now and again .I very much doubt if they are fried thrice and care even less .All I know is they taste delicious !

[berniecuddles]

a chips a chip!!

[EcclesCake]

I don't mind skinny chips in a little bucket but I do loathe jenga chips!

[noodle_miner]

If you don't like chips in a bucket, just tip them on to the plate. A lot of restaurants use a tin/pot to keep the chips crisp as often a plate is wet from sauce/dressing resulting in soggy chips. Putting them in a container avoids this.

[kvalidir]

the thrice fried things sound absolutely vile. Our local chippy though does chips that taste just like roast potatoes. Nom Nom nom...

[ummmm]

I love them. They are steamed/boiled first, cooked in oil at a med temp...then the temp gets turned up to high to really crisp them.

Not burnt at all.