Why? Micro-chips

TheVoice · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:29

JIM_BOB7813 said:
Anyone remember "fries to go" (i think), that were long/slim chips in little individual slots in a cardboard/microwaveable sleeve?
They were more crispy than microchips, but tasted pretty bad, like cardboard.

Yep, I used to have those when I was little, good with omelettes and stuff. Still around actually, or at least they were in my first year of uni.

gumbald · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:36

Gilly · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:41

They're better tonight than they were two nights ago

MarcLister · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:41

Greenlizard0 said:
I thought that this thread was going to be about the other type of micro chips..

Angilion · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:42

Micro chips are an example of good marketing. The chips are just normal chips, but calling them micro chips makes them sound special. You can cook "oven" chips in a microwave - if you put them in the right kind of box.

iSam · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:47

yhack said:
Soggy food is crap

..apart from porridge.

FrostedNipple · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:53

iSam said:
..apart from porridge.

or soup

or the immense beef stew

iSam · 9 Mar 2008 at 23:55

FrostedNipple said:
or soup

or the immense beef stew

Na soup is more liquid.

Beef stew is lumpy.

Gilly · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:00

Corned beef hash is soggy.

Looks and smells like Kit-e-cat too so might not be the best example.

iSam · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:02

Gilly said:
Corned beef hash is soggy.

Looks and smells like Kit-e-cat too so might not be the best example.

Now you're talking, that is top notch, I don't care that it looks like cat food!

Gilly · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:05

Gerrit in a Yorkshire pud with some tatties

iSam · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:09

Your making me hungry.

Gilly · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:11

Got plenty of food here. 3/4s of a home made meat and tatey pie, a full home made apple and blackberry pie, some ham sandwiches (wholemeal bread/best ham), pickled onion monster munch, brioche, wine gums, and Haribo tangfastics

Far more than I'll eat in the 2 nightshifts I have left!

Begbie · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:14

Had them once lately the went on fire in the microwave

iSam · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:16

Gilly said:
Got plenty of food here. 3/4s of a home made meat and tatey pie, a full home made apple and blackberry pie, some ham sandwiches (wholemeal bread/best ham), pickled onion monster munch, brioche, wine gums, and Haribo tangfastics

Far more than I'll eat in the 2 nightshifts I have left!

I'm jealous, stuck at uni and we need to go shopping. We have a tin of beans and thats about it.

davethe11 · 10 Mar 2008 at 00:39

could be because of bacteria, like with some oven meals that should be cooked from frozen, leaving certain food above certain temperatures allows bacteria to multiply, and some bacteria (particularly spores I think) will not be killed when the food is cooked in the microwave

peetee · 10 Mar 2008 at 02:03

Gilly said:
Yeah, they've come on leaps and bounds in the past several years. They can be quite nice now (though these ones I have here certainly aren't, they're just something to accompany my pie).

do they do those nice chunky ones now in the bigger boxes? they used to for a bit and stoppe,d they were sooo nice.

Sankari · 10 Mar 2008 at 03:17

Gilly said:
Why must micro chips be cooked from frozen?

I have some defrosted microwaveable chips (oh the joys of nightshifts!) to eat with a home-made meat and tatey pie, but I thought they'd be fine defrosted, however the package states that they must be cooked from frozen.

I can't think of why.

Do you intend to overclock them?

Van Hellseek · 10 Mar 2008 at 07:33

The bog-standard McCain ones havn't changed. They're just as bad as they're always been. Havn't tried any of the more expensive varieties though. Just doesn't seem worth it when you can get a whole sackfull of decent oven chips for even less money.