I always vote for deep frying. Almost burnt down my apartment deep-frying in a pot on the stovetop in March. Since then I bought a deep fryer and have mastered french fries, which are trickier than you'd think if you like 'em perfectly crispy\chewy.

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diss the deep fried sensation again!!!

what the heck is mommymilk? lol

british chips have to be chunky, a bit greasy, and you have to wrap them in paper with salt and vinegar while you take them home, so the steam makes them all squishy and only the corners are still crispy. mmmmmm.

There should be no squishy parts on fries or as you brits call them chips, ever.

I like the fries that get caught in the basket and get a double frying!

This is from Lonely Planet, I used to watch this show so much.

As far as I know they don't deep fry chocolate in Kuwait.

My fries are finger-length, slim-cut, and extra-brown along the edges and corners. Every area of the surface is lightly crispy, while the inside of the fry is soft and moist. I shake sea salt on them and serve in a bowl lined with a brown paper bag. You get a dish of vinegar, and a dish of slightly warmed ketchup (cold ketchup is nasty). My friends are seriously impressed because the fries are better than any fast food place.

These days instead of popcorn I cook up a big bowl of french fries before a movie. Gonna watch one tonight after some work, can't wait!

damn budzos, what time should i come over?

Fried icecream. No ketchup, please.

But... there is the 'montichristo' from Bennigan's: it's a sandwich that's deep fried and then sprinkled with powdered sugar. It's good... but... not...

By the way: Deep Fried Live :an animated cooking show!

british chips are NOT "fries" ok?
they are a different thing. they should be squishy, not crispy. if you haven't eaten them after 5 minutes in a steamy paper bag then you haven't lived.
you can take your crispy "french" "fries" and shove them up your burger king

I worked with someone from northern Scotland for a while and once while drinking a Pepsi I referred to it as "pop." He said "In Scotland we da nae call it pop, we call et joose!" So I asked him what he called juice. He said "we da nae really drenk juice!" I shudder to think of it...

It is TOO called french fries, there IS a "z" in the word "realize," and England has to be the worst island ever - No place to sip a pina colada and good luck on that tan, cuz you ain't gettin' it!

Eh, I'll take American French-Fries over British chips anyday. I've had them many times, and no thanks, I'll live without them.

Most of them smell like nasty fish, from either being in the same grease as fish, or too close to it, or grease never being changed. Most chip-shops in the UK are worse than Burger King, so you can shove those up your Gary Glitter =]

They aren't french fries... you're all wrong, it's nothing to do with sogginess vs non sogginess, it's down to thickness.

A thin chip is a french fry, a thicker chip is, well, a chip... the crispiness doesn't come into it, I've had soggy fries and crisp chips.

The best? Crisp chips with a fluffy inner and chicken salt.

Ooooh yeah.

Oh, and ketchup and tomato sauce, two different things people. Very similar, sure, but different. Ketchup has more herbs/spices in it.

mink your insane if you think those things at burger king or mcdonalds are fries. While they are "technically" fries the best are hand cut fries or steak fries.

What the hell is a steak fry? You damn Americans have a thousand names for deep-fried potatoes...

Every place is different. Get over it, nobody can say they have the "best" of anything, it's just the best for YOU. Pepsi has several recipes based on what country you purchase it in, because the local market dictates what those people like. If you don't like Burger King, don't eat there.

Also, I heard the man say TOMATO SAUCE and then the stupid reporter repeat back KETCHUP (or catsup, whatever). Those aren't the same are they? In America at least, tomato sauce and ketchup are two completely different items. Ketchup being tomato sauce, plus sugar, vinegar, and a secret ingredient that slowly consumes your soul.

ketchup is sugar, red colour, gunk, and one tomato per 1000 bottles.
tomato sauce is normally just fucking ketchup unless you are in a fancy restaurant.

look, in england, if you ask for fries you sound like an idiot. the only place it is used is in a burger king or whatever, because if you say "chips" then they look at you funny and say "certainly sir, one regular FRIES" because they have like an implant in their brain which checks they are using the correct trademarks for stuff.
And you wouldn't say "chips" because they are going to give you FRIES which are NOT CHIPS.

If you are in a restaurant, you might see french fries on the menu, that means thin fries that look like mcdonalds but taste more like potato.

If you are in a restaurant and you order chips, they will probably not be soggy, they should be crispy and THICK like your thumb.

If you buy frozen chips and cook them in the oven at home they will be SHIT. Full stop / period.

But the best is if you go to a CHIP shop which do actually change the oil and get chips wrapped in paper and wait until they go soggy.

The thin slices of fried potato in a plastic/foil bag are called CRISPS not CHIPS. you know why? because they are crisp, and they are not chip shaped.

A chip is chunky, like a sculptor knocks chips of stone off a sculpture. Why you use the word "chips" for totally flat round SLICES of potato is a total fucking mystery to me. I don't know how your sculptors sculpt over there. And look at a computer chip one day. Is it a round slice? No it is a chunk like a british chip kind of shape.

so NOW whut?

Just goes to prove that the UK has the worst food in europe! blaaaargh!

Don't make us kick your ass again! Sure, it's been over 230 years, but we'll do it!