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BEST TAKE AWAY FISH AND CHIPS NEAR ME PROFESSIONAL

Either way, there's a lot of grease here, you need plenty of (preferably carbonated) liquid, to cut through it. Personally, I think cola's caramel flavours are the most complementary. Strong tea, light beer or your favourite fizzy pop. Bread and butter is essential, the chip butty an exceptional amuse and / or savoury course, as you see fit. Baked beans take the whole plate in a different sweeter direction and are better kept separate and eaten with chips. Each places fish and chips in a different register. There is something about the cashmere textural comfort of freshly cooked, vibrant mushy peas and the sharp, creamy jangle of tartare that jars. As for tartare sauce, a good, homemade caper-packed one is a wonderful thing, but you do have to choose between tartare or mushy peas. Gravy or curry sauce with chips, but not with fish. Who wants to scrape 50% of it off an unwelcome gluey insole? Condiments The fish is essentially a delivery vehicle for the batter. Sat on a plate, trapped under hot fish, it will quickly reabsorb moisture and get soggy. To stay crisp, batter needs circulating air. You knew this instinctively even before (thanks, Harold McGee) you had the scientific evidence to prove it. Was the magic not lost the moment your mum insisted on getting the plates out? Exactly. Picture it: it's Friday, chippy tea night. To be eaten with a tiny, fiddly wooden fork and greasy fingers.

In a polystyrene tray or one of those posh corrugated-cardboard boxes. In a restaurant, your fish and chips will be cooked to order, but your local chippy should be doing that too. Plus, to justify that £11 price tag, restaurants tend to serve ludicrously big portions.

BEST TAKE AWAY FISH AND CHIPS NEAR ME PROFESSIONAL

More importantly, professional chefs can rarely cook fish and chips without refining it: spiking the batter with vodka minting the mushy peas serving your 'chunky' chips in a metal bucket (it's the seaside, geddit?) all of which detracts from the dirty pleasure of fish and chips. It shouldn't be eaten indoors, with a knife and fork. You can't have a 'chippy tea', if you are the chippy.įish and chips in a pub or restaurant, meanwhile, just feels wrong. Plus, fish and chips is supposed to feel like a treat. But is it wise? Unless your local chippy is one of those fraudulent frozen fish and gristle-burger joints, then its fryers will invariably be armed with better batter and fatter fillets than you can muster. Yes, in theory, you could cook fish and chips at home. Cooked where?Īt the chippy, and only the chippy. But what makes great fish and chips? It's time to separate the truth from the codswallop. There are still, it is reported, eight chippies for every branch of McDonald's. Over 150 years after it was 'invented', it remains Britain's favourite takeaway.

It fed an embattled nation during the second world war, and, in Yorkshire, it could yet spark a third conflagration – if you to try fry it in vegetable oil.

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This month on How to Eat – the series attempting to isolate the perfect iteration of the nation's favourite dishes – we turn our forensic fork to a true British classic: fish 'n' chips. Sorry, but our interactive content currently requires Flash Interactive: how to eat fish and chips Link to this interactive

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