Chips, French Fries, Wedges and Any Other Hot Stick Shaped Potatoes

SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
They do here. Onion or sometimes just onion powder but they’re not purely potato.
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I guess I don't eat them that often. But I did check Maccas and they don't have them in.

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Odd really because I've never known them with onion. Such is life... but we did tend to have tatty scones more often than hash browns.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I guess I don't eat them that often. But I did check Maccas and they don't have them in.

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Odd really because I've never known them with onion. Such is life... but we did tend to have tatty scones more often than hash browns.
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Possibly why they’re the worse hash browns I’ve ever tasted 😂

Hash browns are commonly gluten free and the only thing on the menu (apart from terrible fries later in the day) that I can eat in fast food places so I have an unpleasant amount of experience of hash browns and avoid McDonald’s ones like the plague.

There’s not a single non-onion version available at ocado, Morrisons, sainsburys, marks and Spencer’s or Waitrose.
Dunno about the other supermarkets don’t shop there 😂
 
vernplum said:
I've been in quite a few online disputes about the difference between a fry and a chip
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Here, generally, all hot stick potato things are fries - it’s an umbrella term, so you might hear an exchange like this:

“…and that comes with two sides.”
“What are your sides?”
“Baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad, side salad, or fries.”
“Oh…what kind of fries?”

vernplum said:
but KFC Fries are very, very good
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Here, KFC serves cold, floppy skin-on wedges. They’re terrible. It’s specifically why I might go there once every two or three years, because if you can’t get the potatoes right, I don’t want anything else.
 
It’s probably important to point out that, much like the hoagies/grinders discussion, “hash browns” can mean a couple of different things here. <ducks for cover…>
 
TastyReuben said:
Here, generally, all hot stick potato things are fries - it’s an umbrella term, so you might hear an exchange like this:

“…and that comes with two sides.”
“What are your sides?”
“Baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad, side salad, or fries.”
“Oh…what kind of fries?”


Here, KFC serves cold, floppy skin-on wedges. They’re terrible. It’s specifically why I might go there once every two or three years, because if you can’t get the potatoes right, I don’t want anything else.
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This is true, but (I know you know, but not everyone does) not all 'fries' are 'chips'. :)
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
If you find yourself back in the uk you should try the ‘Gastro’ frozen chips (I prefer the M&S ones) and oven them on a very high temp like a roast potato.
They are coated in beef dripping and you’ll get the super crispy on the outside fluffy on the inside experience.

Don’t make the mistake I once did though, they do not work at all in a perforated dish like an air fryer, they need the hot fat on them while they cook. That was a disappointing chip day 😂
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I have tried them - both the Waitrose and M&S ones (I was in the UK twice last year at my mum's), They come ready-slathered in lard/dripping as you say and are designed to be done in the oven, but I deep fried them (which you'd think would make them better) but it didn't improve the 'mealy' structure of the centre.

Well, it could be my technique; I'm not ruling that out as I've never been brilliant at deep-frying.
 
vernplum said:
I have tried them - both the Waitrose and M&S ones (I was in the UK twice last year at my mum's), They come ready-slathered in lard/dripping as you say and are designed to be done in the oven, but I deep fried them (which you'd think would make them better) but it didn't improve the 'mealy' structure of the centre.

Well, it could be my technique; I'm not ruling that out as I've never been brilliant at deep-frying.
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I can’t imagine them standing up to deep frying.
Hot as you can go into the oven like a roast potato is the way for them. But no they don’t have a dense potato interior, more a light almost disappears on impact type of consistency.
I like that though, super crispy and potato like air, not all the time but I enjoy them when I’m in the mood for them a lot.
 
karadekoolaid said:
Just out of interest, does anyone make their own hash browns?
Or their own chips/fries?
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Very rarely my own chips from potatoes but I do ‘chip’ other veg. Have a swede on the next delivery for that very purpose.
But hash browns no, I wouldn’t choose them for anything other than an easy crumbled pie topping and even then I favour Rosti potatoes.
For breakfast it’s sauté potatoes all the way baby!
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Very rarely my own chips from potatoes but I do ‘chip’ other veg. Have a swede on the next delivery for that very purpose.
But hash browns no, I wouldn’t choose them for anything other than an easy crumbled pie topping and even then I favour Rosti potatoes.
For breakfast it’s sauté potatoes all the way baby!
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I love sauté potatoes, but after they get a bit crisp I sometimes mash them into a mound where they stick together that's similar to a hash brown patty, just not deep fried.
 
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