Triple cooked chips

[Workingman]

I posted about these years ago because they were so bad, so very very bad, but I have tried again.

I found a discussion about them on Good Housekeeping and it turns out they are pretty damned good.

Cut your chips to the size you like them. Blanch them in salted and boiling water for six to seven minutes or until softened. Rinse and drain them and let them go COLD. Heat your oil to 100 -110 ºC and fry the chips for four or five mins or till they get a light crispy crust. Take them out and let them go COLD again. At this point they can be frozen.

When you need them heat the oil up to 180 ºC or as hot as it will go and flash fry them till they are crisp and golden brown - a couple of mins max. Keep checking during this stage and DO NOT overcook them or let them go brown. Defrost frozen ones for a few mins before cooking.

Worth it IMHO.

The timings will depend on how you like your chips - chunky ones take a bit longer at each stage than French fries types.

[JanB]

Don't think I could be faffed with it all WM

Just bought an air fryer, will be trying it out over the week-end

[miasmum]

or Aldi do nice triple cooked chips

[Kaz]

We have wedges more often than chips these days. They definitely improve for parboiling - five minutes or so does the trick

[JoM]

or Aldi do nice triple cooked chips

Me and Tom have had those tonight, hadn’t tried them before but will definitely be buying them in future.
The skin on fries that they sell are really nice too.

Jan, I’ve got a new air fryer coming tomorrow. The capacity isn’t big enough on my current one and they all love the wedges I make in them. I find it so versatile and useful though.

[JanB]

I'll let you know Jo x

Aldi is about an hour away from us and they very rarely do English stuff

[Workingman]

Hijacked, by the air-fryer mob!

[JoM]

[JoM]

My new one just arrived, a day late as Amazon sent it on a UK tour in error, and I’ve tested a few home made wedges in it. Sliced up the potatoes, drizzled on a few drops of oil and mixed them around to coat them, stuck them in the air fryer and 11 minutes later they were done. Beautifully soft on the inside and crispy on the outside.

[Kaz]