Fish and chips
Heston Blumenthal’s perfect fish and chips. The fish is done in a beer, vodka and honey batter. (Yes, really vodka). The chips are cooked in three stages over a period of about 3 hours. Served with an Opie’s Pickled Walnut.
Update
The whole house smells like a chippy this morning!
November 24th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
大好きです！
恋しいです！
にたようなものは､日本にもあるのに、何かがちがうんだよね～
November 24th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Fumineko:
Why don’t you make it using the recipe?! All you need is a cod fillet, some Maris Piper potatoes, beer, honey, vodka, flour, salt and pepper, and some vegetable oil. Easy!
You might have a problem finding a copy of The Sun to wrap it up in, for that authentic newspaper texture.
Rich.
November 29th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
Wow, I didn’t know that Vodka is used instead of vin blanc or sake!! (or is it simply for a drink?) Let’s not forget VINEGAR–this is crucial, ask Yuko san, she loves particular brand, I guess.
Surely I can’t get The Sun, but we have To-Spo. It’s a kind of alternative!
November 29th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Fumineko:
I’m a bit dubious about the vodka as well.
Supposedly it’s to make the batter cook more quickly. The theory is that if you use water in the batter, then the water takes too long to boil away, so the batter doesn’t cook quickly enough. Vodka (or pure alcohol) boils away much more quickly because it has a lower boiling point, so the batter will become crisper. I found that there was a slight taste of vodka left in the batter, which was unsatisfactory for me. Perhaps pure alcohol would work better, but then it’s hard to buy pure alcohol in the UK (easy elsewhere though).
Vinegar: I don’t like vinegar very much but if you like it, you should buy a good, dark, malt vinegar to go with fish and chips. This is the one that I use: http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Sarsons_Vinegar.html
Newspaper: How about using Egg?!
Rich.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Last night, me, colleagues and clients went to british pub like place. After having a pint of white beer and gin tonics, we ordered Fish and chips…. quite nice actually… What a surprise, this pub served the vineger that Rich believes as the best. Malt vineger seemed a rare product for some people and no doubt taht they loved it so much!
December 7th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Sounds great. Where was the pub? In Tokyo?
December 8th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Yes. It’s near my office in Ebisu. It ’s nice to find a cozy place like that in such a residential area of busy Ebisu town…
A pint cost 900en, is this expensive??
December 8th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
900円 - even with the very favourable exchange rate, that’s still £4. A pint in a pub here costs about £3. Still, I suppose they do have to transport it over there. Is it a pint of anything nice?
Rich.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:11 am
I started with a pint of a white beer whose name I never leraned how to pronounce - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoegaarden_Brewery
That was 900円. (The English colleagues went for COLD Guiness or some kind of Ale…) But that wasn’t my white beer ! I used to drink another white beer that was avaialble (mostly out of stock!) at All Bar One! Can’t remember the name again, but for me, it was more acceptable than any other sparkling drinks! Now, Sapporo Beer sells Guinness in Japan and the number of Irish/British style pubs are increasing there days. Fun.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Ah OK. Hoegaarden (HO-GARDEN) is also really expensive in the UK.
Anyway, photos of fish and chips on your boggie? You haven’t updated it in ages!
December 10th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
I know… would be updated shortly…?? The latest news so far is rather a bleak one before Chiristmas,,, I won’t get paid for the last 2 months labour services, it’s quite feasible,,,, To get them onto my bank account, probably I have to take a legal action. Does Santa Claus really exist??
December 10th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Oh dear! Hope you get paid …
December 11th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
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