What are the best potatoes for making homemade fresh chips? And where can you get them?

Hill tribe potatoes make great chips. Not sure where you get them in town, maybe try the Friday Market next to the Mosque in the night bazaar.

Iain

maris piper and king edward,,

but i think were buggerd here,,,lol

we just got tesco finest

Just go to Muangmai Wholesale vegetable market,near US embassy

they have several varieties on display,price 170 bht up, the best way

to tell if a potato would make good chips is to cut it in half and if the

half's hold together when inverted .but the vendors might not be

happy with you doing that.

I find the best way to chips ,is to boil them first until tender,let them

dry a bit and put them in hot oil, when nearly coloured remove from

the oil, let them cool, then fry again ,they will be soft inside and crispy

outside, just takes a bit longer but worth the extra effort.

regards worgeordie

P.S. that was for a 10 Kg bag, but as its raining now price is sure to go up.

Ah double Cooked Chips the way they where made when I wuz but a boy.

No idea if Chippys in UK still use this method as ALL where owned by Furriners on my last visit.

john

Is this US or UK 'Chips' under discussion?

Are we talking about 'chips' as in 'Fish & Chips' or 'Crisps' as in 'Salt & Vinegar' (UK)

If UK there are diffferent 'tatties' & different methods of preperation and cooking them!

Hill tribe potatoes make great chips. Not sure where you get them in town, maybe try the Friday Market next to the Mosque in the night bazaar.

Iain

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Cutting a slice out of the potato will hopefully reveal a milky starch which will make them good for chips. Ideally there'll be a bit of give in them if you press them.

Few options there I'll look into, interested in trying those hill tripe potatoes.

Just on the boiling and double frying them, you shouldn't need to do that with a potato that good for chips.

It's not the spuds...

It's not the spuds...

Agreed. But it's a combination of both. Beef dripping and lard are near impossible to find here, tho solid vegetable oil is what is used in chippies back in the UK these days. Is that available here?

Thank Buddha the sweaties will soon be gone and we Brits can get back to running our own country.

john

We know what chips are.