Deep Fat Fryers

Bought a great little one at christmas , Cookworks from Argos  Just perfect for one person & looks quite cool too in silver & black
Only use it for fries really & the odd chicken bits but are 100 times better than any oven chips , had a few years of them , yuk !

as you say the oil's the only problem , changed it last month since christmas but the amount of sludge in the bottom when you change it is quite Amazing

will change it sooner next time but still worth every single penny , fries taste gorgeous

only takes 5 minutes , hate using the oven really for anything , like to use the hob to fry on instead

allow myself fried chips once a week.

Going to attempt to make my own french fries in the near future

I've discovered Lidl do the Best Fries Pug

or Pomme Frittes as they like to call them

Do a huge 2.5 kg bag for £1.36

i usually get mine from m an s. 2quid for 1kg but they have to try the ones from lidl moonbeam.

Thats a really good deal.

may

We've got an Actifry. It's the healthy way to fry chips.

You put the chips in  with a spoonful of oil and cook them for twenty minutes.
The chips come out crispy and golden and taste awful.

You'll soon give up eating chips.
I suppose that's where the health benefit comes from.

does the actifry work for both fresh and frozen chips?

I only have chips once a week so prob couldnt justify paying the money for an actifry

You'll soon give up eating chips. 

Nahh Love my pomme Frittes too much !!!

yep it is Pug
I always used to buy the best ones in Asda , special fries for like £2 odd bag & only 750g , but since buying these i realize just how much i've been ripped off over the years ...
Cheap as Chips as they say

they do a nice small bag for 69p too !!

Harvest basket fries

does the actifry work for both fresh and frozen chips?

Yes it oven chips okay as well.

I spend tons on beer , tobacco , junk etc

Gamble around $5,000 per day

but am just so chuffed i've discovered my 69p bag of fries

You just wash the removable bowl and paddle after you use it.
We stick them in the dishwasher.

There's a cheaper one on the market. It's built sturdier than the Actifry, but it smashes up the chips and turns them to pulp.

We sent it back and changed it for the Actifry, at least the Actifry works.

BUY THE COOKWORKS *NAP* 

I paid £15 (half price)

moonbeam i am going to go to lidl next wk and pick some up.

Becoming more and more p1ssed of with tesco. They are decent for milk and bread etc but they never seem to have anything in that i am wanting.

I do like the beef mince tho. 2 quid for 500grams.

JAre lidl good for mince and other meat?

Yep , they're really very good Pug , i'm surprised , get all my sausage , bacon etc from there regularly , they do lovely fresh bread 15p mini baguettes , and freezers full of fresh meat , some isn't a bargain but they do some great stuff like big bags of chicken drumsticks for £3

Nice pizzas too , first time i went in i thought they were £2.79 each , so left them for weeks , then realized they were boxes of 3 !!

My fav are the double pepperoni singles for 99p though (full sized)

Milk 95p

It's a v good shop & helps as is only round the corner so enjoy walking there & back , only really used my car for shopping so there's 1k per year i save already

Mc Moonbeam,

If your doctor finds out about that lot he'll put you on a diet of Statin sandwiches.

all he ever asks is how much i smoke

Pug i only ever peel my own chips and do them that way, quite tasty and usually my hangover food if able to eat, r the frozen ones much better?

you peel Chips , Hungover ......................... 69p bag kid

frozen chips are great bhoys. I only eat french fries.

Got a bag of maris piper potatoes earlier. That will do me for 5 days. Mashed potato and roast potatoes on the menu

roast potatoes are the business!

Yea mate i buy maris pipers also, great spuds, what bag u get 3kg? Roasties r class mate but does it not cost u a bomb on elec making them?

Boil the feckers first

I've always found them easier to clean (well the wife has) if you use beef dripping instead of oil. Oil tends to coagulate and go lumpy after a couple of uses.

2.5kg for 2quid at tesco mate

roosters are the best and am going to start buying them again.

Need to cook in over for an hour in oven. I dont know how much elec it costs

i could boil them for 20mins and then fry them in olive oil for 10mins to get them crispy. Fairly healthy too. Would save me in elec aswell

Never tried roosters, i hardly use the oven mate as its way to expensive, usually use a goerge forman grill or steamer. so u boil them then deep fat fry them? surly thats not healthy at all?

have you never heard of double or triple cooked chips?

^^^ posh u BB £4.00 a portion in fancy gastro pub

i usually do mine in oven

but an idea could be to gently frying them in olive oil. As this is a healthy oil. Nothing like vegetable or sunflower oil which are bad fats.

How do u make roast potatoes bhoys?

Havnt in a while pug but usually boil them for about 20 -25 mins, take out of steamer, put butter on them and do them in the oven until crispy brown, but that would cost a fair bit on elec

you could buy frozen potatoes and they would only take half hour. But fresh are sn much better

Nah mate i only eat fresh stuff, usually buy fresh stuff then freeze it, how much u spend on eleccy a week mate?

around 10 a week on lec and 5 on gas at moment

in winter its usually closer to 10 a week on gas

Thats a lot mate,

average monthly bill for a flat is £57 so it seems fair enough

How much are u in total?

About 45 - 48 depending how often i go on the pi ss lol, If im on the drink id only be watching tv and listening to tunes if home,

lol

staying off drink until nxt wk at least. Need to try and just cut down to once a week.

Its gd at the time but u wake up nxt day thing what the fcuk was the point.

Mines about £60 electric month , but that's for everything , pc on all day , tv , cooking etc

thing - thinking

Ino mate, i say that every week, i think my problem is im single and want a bird so head out to try and get 1, then i just continue for days drinking, few mates looking me to go out for boxing tomara

love a bottle of red tho. One of lifes pleasures

just drunk 3 cans , i don't get drunk , head is back to normal already , need drugs not drink methink!!

boxing will be amazing . Wil just watch on laptop

r u goin 2 go out for it?

lol moonbeam

i dont wana mate i will get it on my dreambox for free, if all the lads head out and i dont il just watch with my da im seriously sick of drink mate, had enough

is it easy to get stuff in your area mc?

join the club bhoys

amount of cash i have spent on booze past month sickens me.

Ive decided just to buy decent food and munchies instead. Get a lot more for your money with the bonus of no hangover

tbh since i moved last year pug , i don't know the people & have stayed away from getting involved with locals etc

but the area as a whole is probably rife with stuff , there was a bust just down the road from me on a local business, was one of the biggest crystal meth / chemical factories in the country , 68k in cash just lying on the table .

My flats are quite respectable though , everybody works , and don't really wanna get involved with local dealers , my old man grows enough himself to supply the entire area , lol

Pug ive decide to spend june eating well and building myself up, which means no fu cking drink as i dont eat when drinking or dying but its the same old problem if u dont go out how do u pull

lol everywhere is rife with the stuff mate. Personally feel that certain drugs should be legalised. But thats another matter entirely

I downloaded anchorman 2 so going to watch it now.

Enjoy the rest of your evenings mc and bhoys

Ok pug but its not very good mate

enjoy your evening anyway

Bhoys many pull birds on internet chat sites , or so i've heard , maybe invest in some faster broadband & skype

christ im not that desperate, i can pull, just dont have the doe to head out much and am fu cking sick of drinking

you were correct bhoys anchorman 2 was awful. Switched off after half hour