/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13264387]

What kind of fish do Brits usually eat with their chips? I'm trying to make authentic British fish and chips. Which condiments are typically used?

[Anonymous No.13264408]

>>13264387
Cod
NBC in chip shops.
Malt vinegar in restaurants.
Lemon and tartar sauce on the fish.
Maldon salt on the chips.

[Anonymous No.13264407]

tilapia is the classic

[Anonymous No.13264411]

>>13264387
Use Cod.
Make either a beer batter or any other kind of thick, liquid batter.
Mushy Peas (just use peas and a fuckload of butter) and ofc fries.

[Anonymous No.13264422]

>>13264407
>tilapia is the classic
Idiot.

[Anonymous No.13264423]

Cod prevalent in the south, and Haddock in the north.

[Anonymous No.13264436]

>>13264387

My local uses Cod, Haddock, Skate and Rock. All are nice, but I personally prefer haddock.

Good sides with chips are either Mushy Peas, Pickled onions and Gherkins. You use Malt Vinegar for the Fish AND chips, or you can just squeeze a little lemon on the fish.

Don't underestimate the Chip Butty, in proper crusty rolls or bread and well buttered, it's simply delightful.

[Anonymous No.13264553]

>>13264422
pretty sure it was a joke. if you were not an autist you would be able to understand the irony of them saying tilapia... but here we are, autist.

[Anonymous No.13264567]

for me, it's tartar sauce

[Anonymous No.13264573]

>>13264423
You’re all eating frozen whitefish-of-the-month from the South China Sea, actual North Atlantic cod and haddock are reserved for the elite.

[Anonymous No.13264580]

a proper good chippy fries their food in Lard

[Anonymous No.13264585]

>>13264553
Not the guy you're replying to, but I don't get it. What's wrong with Tilapia?

[Anonymous No.13264587]

>>13264422
Based zoomer

[Anonymous No.13264618]

>>13264585
it's petite and unused

[Anonymous No.13266093]

>>13264580
No, a PROPER one uses beef dripping, but lard is pretty good too.

[Anonymous No.13266203]

>>13264387
This is one thing brits really get right. Being an island nation, I'm continually baffled why there aren't more seafood dishes from britain other than the silly stargazy pie meme.

[Anonymous No.13266673]

>>13264387
Cod is best

[Anonymous No.13266693]

>>13264408
NBC? What’s that?

[Anonymous No.13266730]

>>13266203
everyone was too busy trying not to die from some plague or a war with the frenchies

[Anonymous No.13266745]

>>13264573
I buy mine from the fish quey

[Anonymous No.13266806]

>>13264436
I second this, chip butties are delicious

[Anonymous No.13266883]

American here. There were a lot of British-style pubs around where I used to live. They offered cod and haddock. Honestly I liked haddock better but from what I understand there's some environmental issues with cod.

Best place I've been to battered their fries. God help your health but if you gave a fuck you wouldn't be a drinking and eating fried food. They had the best english breakfast for a while too before everyone forgot how to make blood sausage. Apparently bread can be dry as fuck but sausage can't taste like an organ.

[Anonymous No.13266924]

>>13264387
Should ideally be a white fish.
The best white fish to use would be fresh halibut from Alaska, or traditionally cod, esp icelandic cod.

Do they use cod and haddock anymore? At quality restaurants, yes, and prices are similar to having a nice lobster or a steak night out.
Everywhere cheap? No, there are some substitutions due to cost wherever cod used to be in recipes. Will it be pollock? Basa/swai is the world's new farmed tilapia, a mild fish caught from muddy farms in the most polluted areas of the world. If you aren't in a restaurant where you can see them filleting and actually see a fishie's head and fresh eyeballs to ID it? Probably you could be tricked. If you don't care, you don't care, but to experience something like the old days, you need to buy some nice filets.
I'm going to also say that a fish batter should use some modern sensibilities, from corn starch on the filets first, to making the batter light with beer and sparking water both.
I like the malt vinegar and extra good fries.

[Anonymous No.13266994]

>>13264387
I like either cod or haddock for the fish of choice
chips should be made of particularly starchy potatoes, quickly boiled/rinsed and then fried so they cook properly
all covered in malt vinegar ("non-brewed condiment" is disgusting, stay away from it) and served with a little bit of mushy peas

[Anonymous No.13267515]

>>13264436
haddock is the thinking man's choice

[Anonymous No.13267543]

ive kept trying fish and chips but never got it right. im guessing i have to throw the fish in the dryer aswell as patting it dry with a towel?

[Anonymous No.13267582]

I don't get it, the most popular dish of England is fried fish and french fries? How can one entire country have such SHIT taste?

[Anonymous No.13267668]

>>13267582
It's actually chicken tikka.

[Anonymous No.13267680]

>>13264407
>>13264422
>>13264553
>>13264585
>>13264587
>>13264618
I still don't understand what's so funny about Tilapia.

[Anonymous No.13267681]

>>13267515
Indeed.

[Anonymous No.13267716]

>>13267680
Americans don't eat it. Whatever worthless fish is leftover they call it tilapia.

[Anonymous No.13267721]

>>13267716
Great post... yep, a real dandy.

[Anonymous No.13267783]

>>13267716

tilapia is the best fish if you want fish but don't like the taste of fish

[Anonymous No.13267787]

>>13267680
>Known in the food business as “aquatic chicken” because it breeds easily and tastes bland, tilapia is the perfect factory fish; it happily eats pellets made largely of corn and soy and gains weight rapidly, easily converting a diet that resembles cheap chicken feed into low-cost seafood.

Typical murican trash food

[Anonymous No.13267869]

>>13264436
>Don't underestimate the Chip Butty, in proper crusty rolls or bread and well buttered, it's simply delightful.
>>13266806
>I second this, chip butties are delicious
Defender of British food, and I've had chip butties in England and Scotland many times, and they are simply not good. They're not terrible, but they're not good.

[Anonymous No.13267886]

>>13267680
>>13267716
>>13267787
None of those are correct.
Tilapia is raised in Vietnamese and Chinese farms using raw human sewage as food, and I'm not joking.
Tilapia is made from Chinese turds. Since Chinese are already turds, this is like the second-derivative of turd. It's hyperturd.

[Anonymous No.13268996]

>>13264387
>>13264436
>>13267515

Haddock has the same appearance and texture of cod but has more flavour in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.13268998]

>>13266203
I heard that ancient celts had some taboo about eating fish, Norfs to this day hate all forms of sea food.

[Anonymous No.13269348]

>>13266203
They don’t even eat a lot of fish. Compare that with nations like Portugal, Norway and Japan.

[Anonymous No.13269352]

>>13266203
Class prejudices.

[Anonymous No.13269551]

>>13267886
Wrong. They feed on the excrement of farmed salmon, it's efficient.

Before you saw eww gross, that's exactly what lobster eat, mainly.

[Anonymous No.13269619]

>>13266203
There are tons of recipes for seafood dishes in Britain. You just don't see a lot of them because they don't get much exposure outside of the seaside.

[Anonymous No.13269623]

>>13269619

[Anonymous No.13269634]

>>13269623

[Anonymous No.13269644]

>>13269634
Not really seafood but it counts.

[Anonymous No.13269671]

>>13268996
Haddock also comes from deeper and colder water meaning there's fewer parasites in its environment. I worked for two years as a fishmonger and one out of every four cod filets would have parasitic worms working their way through the flesh, yet I never saw worms in haddock.

[Anonymous No.13270419]

>>13269619
This is a blue board.
> pornography is a ban

[Anonymous No.13270434]

>>13266203
There are loads of seafood dishes in britain. You just wont find them talked about by the retards on /ck/ who can only talk in memes.

[Anonymous No.13270452]

You can't beat plaice and chips. Salt and malt vinegar and a bit of tartar sauce.

[Anonymous No.13270469]

>>13264411
>anybody that recommends malt vinegar
pic related

>>13264411
No shallots or mint in your mushy peas?

[Anonymous No.13270493]

>>13266693
National Broadcasting Company

[Anonymous No.13270577]

>>13264573
>Not living in a norfern fishing town
Cringe

[Anonymous No.13270597]

>>13267582
It's only as popular as it is because it's like getting a mcburger in America. That and there's a chippy within 5 minutes walking almost everywhere, it's quick and you don't have to cook anything, it's good on your way back from the pub and it's filling.

[Anonymous No.13270608]

>>13264387
usually cod
but haddock if bothered about conservation

[Anonymous No.13270630]

>>13264387
Don't even bother. You wont get the full experience unless you're coming home from the pub and go to your local chippy

[Anonymous No.13270670]

>>13264387
Not speaking as a brit, but as an american: rockfish and cabezon fry really well.

[Anonymous No.13270785]

>>13270630
Based

[Anonymous No.13270920]

>>13270577
How far norf fish lad?

[Anonymous No.13271308]

>>13264387
Tinned pilchards

[Anonymous No.13272286]

>>13266693
Non brewed condiment. We live in a world where fake malt vinegar exists.

[Anonymous No.13273335]

>>13264387
Cod you idiot look up any recipe and most will say cod you want the blandest shittiest fish possible do you can drown it in vinegar

[Anonymous No.13273457]

>>13264580
>>13266093
You're both mongs, Duck Fat is king.

[Anonymous No.13273469]

>>13270920
>literally game of thrones

[Anonymous No.13273884]

>>13266693
Since we're talking about British food, it probably stands for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical.

[Anonymous No.13274040]

>>13264387
>authentic British fish and chips

Anon, please. The British (despite living on an island surrounded by an ocean full of fish…) didn’t know how to fry fish until the Jews taught them how.

[Anonymous No.13274631]

>>13273457
>You're both mongs, Duck Fat is king.

What's the matter? You don't know the difference between ducks and geese?

[Anonymous No.13274643]

>>13274040
thanks for the ((info))

[Anonymous No.13274671]

>>13264387
>What kind of fish do Brits usually eat with their chips?
Whatever mystery white fish is cheapest.
>Which condiments are typically used?
Fake vinegar.

[Anonymous No.13275905]

>>13273335
Why would you possibly want the shittiest anything. Just shut up you mongoloid.