No STEW(ards) Inquiry Please

[marsh man]

I gave the ole Stew a miss tonight and just had a bit of slow cooked beef with a few Carrots and filled the rest of the hole up with a piece of Apple and Blackberry pie with custard , not up to Simons standard but the ole site is a bit on the quite side tonight so there yer go . verdict , Pie was nice and the beef and carrots, but again the oven chips have got a lot of room for improvement , but I will get there , just need persevering  

[bruno22rf]

Oven chips are the work of Beelzebub himself IMO (unless you deep fry em)

[islandgun]

A few roast spuds would rounded that off nicely, the pie looks great. I wouldn't mind a slice just now

[marsh man]

19 minutes ago, bruno22rf said:

Oven chips are the work of Beelzebub himself IMO (unless you deep fry em)

The oil in the deep fry always seem to make them look oily so I gave doing them myself a miss , I am going to get some beef dripping and try that , I have got two large sacks of spuds in the garage that need using up so we will see how we get on .

20 minutes ago, islandgun said:

A few roast spuds would rounded that off nicely, the pie looks great. I wouldn't mind a slice just now

You are right I G with the roast spuds , but my fruit pie was three days old so I didn't want a to bigger tea so I could leave enough room . , 

I find not being that hungry and being by yourself that the motivation to spend ages on one meal is no longer there , don't get me wrong , I still eat some good food and don't skimp on anything but buying a ready meal and then adding to it as required seem the best of two evils , fish chips and Peas tomorrow with the rest of the fruit pie . 

[oldypigeonpopper]

1 hour ago, islandgun said:

A few roast spuds would rounded that off nicely, the pie looks great. I wouldn't mind a slice just now

Me to 👍 I wonder if that was a M and S fruit pie 🤔

Edited December 10 by oldypigeonpopper

[JKD]

Meat, veg and gravy looks great 😋 But, those chips,,,, YIKES !!! You must have something wrong with your oven if they keep turning out like that 😬

[ditchman]

Your chips aint done John

[marsh man]

50 minutes ago, JKD said:

Meat, veg and gravy looks great 😋 But, those chips,,,, YIKES !!! You must have something wrong with your oven if they keep turning out like that 😬

I don't think it is the oven JKD , it was brand new when we bought it and everything else come out fine , or it would if I keep an eye on things but most of the time it is my fault and not the ovens , you know what they say about a bad tradesmen blaming his tools 

54 minutes ago, ditchman said:

Your chips aint done John

You could well be right Simon as some them were still a bit hard in the middle , they are Mc Canns and it state 24 - 26 minutes , the minimum I have them in is 30 minutes , I am having fish and chips tomorrow so I will give the chips an extra 10 minutes and see how it go .

[JKD]

55 minutes ago, marsh man said:

I don't think it is the oven JKD , it was brand new when we bought it and everything else come out fine , or it would if I keep an eye on things but most of the time it is my fault and not the ovens , you know what they say about a bad tradesmen blaming his tools 

You could well be right Simon as some them were still a bit hard in the middle , they are Mc Canns and it state 24 - 26 minutes , the minimum I have them in is 30 minutes , I am having fish and chips tomorrow so I will give the chips an extra 10 minutes and see how it go .

Nope,,,, never heard that expression before 🤔😆🤣 Just because your oven/cooker is reasonably new, doesn't mean that there's nothing wrong with it,,,, which I'm sure there is. Either that, or ,,,, it's user error 🥳😂

[ditchman]

1 hour ago, marsh man said:

I don't think it is the oven JKD , it was brand new when we bought it and everything else come out fine , or it would if I keep an eye on things but most of the time it is my fault and not the ovens , you know what they say about a bad tradesmen blaming his tools 

You could well be right Simon as some them were still a bit hard in the middle , they are Mc Canns and it state 24 - 26 minutes , the minimum I have them in is 30 minutes , I am having fish and chips tomorrow so I will give the chips an extra 10 minutes and see how it go .

pre-heat the oven to 220 degs...also put the baking tray in at the same time ...so its hot when you put the chips on it......cook for 26 mins in the middle of the oven....at 20 mins take out and fiddle the chips about and put back in the oven until thay are the right colour for you

[amateur]

3 hours ago, ditchman said:

....at 20 mins take out and fiddle the chips about........

Good grief. Have you no shame?

[ditchman]

3 hours ago, amateur said:

Good grief. Have you no shame?

They are adult chips ...so they know what they are doing

[amateur]

3 minutes ago, ditchman said:

They are adult chips ...so they know what they are doing

So said Harvey and Mohammed.

[ditchman]

Just now, amateur said:

So said Harvey and Mohammed.

under the cooking time instructions there is a Tesco NDA.......

i will add that i never never knowingly done a wrong doing to a legal chip........

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Chip abuse, it's bloody everywhere..........................

 

But on a more serious note;

Some good advice there john, either the oven is not hot enough or the chips need to be in the oven for longer.

I do mine in the air fryer, no pre-heat, just one portion in for 15 minutes, give the basket a shake half way through.

I think you need to stick to one make of chips, practice and get used to getting lovely crisp chips when you have mastered you oven.

You may even enjoy practicing.  

 

Your enjoyment of the pudding is similar to me, I do love a good pie, whether it be apple, apple and blackcurrant or cherry.

Add a little drizzle of honey across the top before putting the custard on. Smashing.  

[bruno22rf]

I think that the instructions on oven chips is often a little optimistic, I would imagine it's deliberate so your average housewife thinks they wont take as long to cook. Aldi have some entertaining times in the past, some of their frozen chicken strips say 30 minutes but if you try that they can still peck you as you put em on your plate.When I do chips (rarely these days) I deep fry then put them on kitchen tissue in a warm oven, then heat a frying pan with salt, tomato powder, curry powder or whatever flavour you fancy then throw the chips in, pop the lid on and shake/heat them for a couple of minutes.

Edited December 11 by bruno22rf

[Penelope]

12 hours ago, marsh man said:

I gave the ole Stew a miss tonight and just had a bit of slow cooked beef with a few Carrots and filled the rest of the hole up with a piece of Apple and Blackberry pie with custard , not up to Simons standard but the ole site is a bit on the quite side tonight so there yer go . verdict , Pie was nice and the beef and carrots, but again the oven chips have got a lot of room for improvement , but I will get there , just need persevering  

Not doing them chips for long enough

[Mice!]

8 hours ago, ditchman said:

pre-heat the oven to 220 degs...also put the baking tray in at the same time ...so its hot when you put the chips on it......cook for 26 mins in the middle of the oven....at 20 mins take out and fiddle the chips about and put back in the oven until thay are the right colour for you

Spot on, those chips look still frozen, must be the temperature or the time??

I'd sort out a new baking tray, one the chips can't lie flat on.

[Mice!]

There you go pal 👍

 

[marsh man]

Do you know what ? , I never dreamt chips could create virtually a thread all by themselves , I have had quite a restless night just thinking about them and will consult Mc Cann's for advice  , I am sure all the advice above is correct and I now have my own theories , the main problem is under cooked , this could be because I am putting them in the oven while they are frozen and at the temp I am doing the main meal , tonight I will change tactics , both the fish and the chips will come out of the freezer this morning and the chips will be go in at the temp recommended in a pre heated oven , we have fought many battles over the years with several this year alone and came out bruised but still in one piece , so the ongoing crisis we are having with frozen chips will soon come to a conclusion , like Winston Churchill once said , We will not be defeated .

[JKD]

Hahaha 😆,,,, this is turning into 'CHIPGATE' 😲🤣

MM,,,, my chips take around 30 minutes @ 200° fan oven. Sausages take 30 minutes @ 180/190°,,,, so things go in the same oven at different times, tweaking the heat setting during the process 🫡 Of course I could use the other oven on my double oven cooker 😝🤣

[TIGHTCHOKE]

MM, they are meant to be cooked straight from frozen in a hot oven. 

I doubt defrosting them will improve things, try it anyway, but don't be too surprised if going against the manufacturers guidance doesn't help.

 

GOOD luck.

[ditchman]

47 minutes ago, JKD said:

Hahaha 😆,,,, this is turning into 'CHIPGATE' 😲🤣

MM,,,, my chips take around 30 minutes @ 200° fan oven. Sausages take 30 minutes @ 180/190°,,,, so things go in the same oven at different times, tweaking the heat setting during the process 🫡 Of course I could use the other oven on my double oven cooker 😝🤣

chipmageddon

[Morkin]

I just can’t wait for the results tomorrow 🍟🍟🍟🍟🍟🤞👍

[old'un]

we use nothing else but McCain oven chips, set oven to 190c fan, cook for 30 minutes on metal tray and they always come out perfect.

Get yourself an oven thermometer and test if your oven is coming up to temperature, one of these will do….

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