Fruit and veg market doom

**BolshieBastard** · 29 September 2008, 19:06

The Daily Wail. as bad, if not worse than the Daily Excess!

**TimberWolf** · 29 September 2008, 19:13

Spurred on by this talk about healthy vegetables, I'm cooking one of my 5 a year. Chips take ages, they've been going an hour so far and not yet golden brown... and I even left them to soak this time. Meat is much easier.

**PRC1964** · 29 September 2008, 19:14

An hour?

are you heating them over a candle? They should be charcoal by now.

**TimberWolf** · 29 September 2008, 19:29

Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post

are you heating them over a candle? They should be charcoal by now.

They've been bubbling away in Sunflower oil for 1.5 hours now and are still stodgy. I didn't turn the heat up beyond bubbling temperature though, working on the premise that that would just waste energy vaporising oil, like when you boil something in water. How long are chips supposed to take?

**DiscoStu** · 29 September 2008, 19:32

Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

They've been bubbling away in Sunflower oil for 1.5 hours now and are still stodgy. I didn't turn the heat up beyond bubbling temperature though, working on the premise that that would just waste energy vaporising oil, like when you boil something in water. How long are chips supposed to take?

About 6 minutes in 180 degree oil!

**HairyArsedBloke** · 29 September 2008, 19:33

Mmmmmm.

Plan B: Fruit 'n' Veg stall down the market - BOOMED

**FarmerPalmer** · 30 September 2008, 07:14

not from my local farm they haven't.

If you buy from supermarkets, don't forget they have to be driven to the airport, flown to Africa or China, driven to the packing plant, driven, back to the airport, flown back to the UK, driven to the central logistics depot, and then driven to your local supermarket ... and fuel prices have increased because our government made such a great job of stablising the Middle East.

Fruit and veg market doom