Stand aside the mobile phone, internet and the iPOD the most important invention of the modern age has happened. Well it’s important in Conorland at least.
Is there anyone who doesn’t love chips (fries for those on the other side of the pond)? My favourite being the ones you make yourself chopping up potatoes into nice thick chunks and then plunging them in a deep fat fryer. That crispy deliciousness dampened only by the knowledge that all that fat is just not good for you. Some would say that that naughtiness adds more to the event than a sachet of ketchup ever could but that guilty feeling of clogging up your arteries means that I don’t have them nearly as near as much as I’d like.
Those dark days of smelly oil and fat, not to mention fire risk, are on their way out because some very clever Dutch people have developed a way of frying without fat. Instead they use air and steam! Plus they promise that the results are just as tasty and crispy as with the conventional method. The HiFri® has arrived folks. Well not quite yet but they say it will be on the market by the end of the year. I can’t wait. You can read more about it here. The site is in Dutch but sure isn’t it about time you learned anyways.
“Fry yourself thin”… Uhuh. They don’t quote a price anywhere as far as I’ve seen… and the thing takes as much place as two washing machines.
I guess they’ll eventually develop a smaller version for at home – at the moment they’re concentrating on industry
You know my motto – I want it all and I want it now
Behold the power of chips!
Wooo Hoooo! Great news. And hey, don’t fret over the size of it. Does anyone know how much space the first computer occupied? The fekkers now fit into a mobile phone *caressing the slim lil Macbook as we speak*.
Size doesn’t matter? Gimme fat free chips that taste as good as the fatty, greasy, lethal ones, I’ll take it anytime. If not, it doesn’t phase me. I have to keep my bum size as is, muhah.
After reading that it all makes perfect sense ……………………….
I’m not the type to need the latest must have gadget… just as well cos my Dutch is crap!
You ever thought of approaching the company about writing a sales pitch for them?
Can they do it with battered snickereses too? Thus rendering particular treat fat free also?
Fat-free chips? Sounds too good to be true, I love chips and Jenny adores them – she’d have chips with every meal if she could (even pizza and curry). Yes I love the big thick ones too (potato wedges they’re called hereabouts). No sign of Hi-Fri chips here yet, must inform the chip shops, it’s probably a cheaper frying method than all that boiling fat. Gimmee, gimmee!!
Those who suffered through the famine would be so proud to know that we are utilizing the common chip to the fullest! Soon, with frying-free chips, we’ll all be able to fit into famine-sized jeans!
Bring it on!
Frying isn’t actually all that bad as a cooking method: it’s certainly not much worse than sautéing (where the oil ends up right in the dish). If you fry correctly, very little oil gets into the food at all, since the method is primarily about water escaping from the food rather than oil going in.
The main problem with frying are the things usually used to fry: batters, starchy sugary foods, and so on, all of which brown and caramelize (which is why it tastes so good).
lenfercest – hey that’s my motto too
gaye – they’ll be palm sized before we know it!
ellie – good idea, maybe I’ll get a free one
gimme – now that would be a miracle and a half
nick – cheaper, healthier, no smell, it’s a win win situation. We should have a chip party when it’s out
alan – hey don’t go mentioning blight now that we have the HiFi
bad – why are the yummy foods always the unhealthy ones
I LOVE chips. I’m gonna be all over that when it goes on the market.
put the restaurant industry outta business! Not good, not good at all
want one though….
I doubt it Manuel, more likely it’ll put the fire brigade out of business. None of that blazing chip fat setting fire to the bijou semi-detached. However a fire brigade spokesperson has welcomed the new frying method, pointing out they’ll have more time to rescue cats stuck up trees and little boys’ heads jammed in railings.
I would eat them with every meal if I could. I try to limit it to no more than twice a month and always get them out (hate frying at home).
But will this new invention make them taste as good? I’m doubtful.
God I love chips. Smothered in ketchup – I’m hoping they’ll start research on non-artery-clogging ketchup as soon as they’ve got the no-fat frying thing down. God but I really love chips… Mmm…
Blasphemy!!!!! That is just criminal.
I like salt and white wine vinegar on my chips.
Conor, what do you think of Sufjan Stevens’ music? What would be your fav song?
Steph – me too, someone’s going to make lots of money from it
manuel – not at all – in fact it’ll encourage more people to eat out!
nick – and they’ll have more time to make cahrity calendars
medbh – I am really really hoping that they will be just as good – fingers crossed
caro – and mayonaise too!
sassy – criminally brilliant
gaye – I love Sufjan! Favourite song – that’s very difficult I like one called ‘Lord God Bird’ or ‘That dress looks nice on you’ or almost anything from the album Illinois
“frying without fat” is just about the most perverse thing I have ever heard. I would rather have sex with a goat, or even Boris Johnson, than go anywhere near a fatless chip. God, those Dutch, why don’t they stick to stuff they’re good at, like selling 600 different types of weed. This new fangled invention makes my blood boil. BTW can you get any good I mean REALLY good fish and chips over there…and I certainly do not mean those silly thin frites…i mean the fat fat chips you get at the chippie in England/Ireland?
Your headline made me laugh – a lot but still suspect chips will taste rubbish.