Maybe if chip shops gave free chips to drunken people a lot of these fires could be avoided.

maybe if Hob Based Chip pans were banned alot of these fires could be avoided

Originally posted by "RPG"

maybe if Hob Based Chip pans were banned alot of these fires could be avoided

True but I'd prefer Graham's solution.

Free chips. mmmmmm :)

Buy oven chips, no chip pan required !!!!!!

Man burned by chip pan - A MAN suffered horrific burns after he dropped a burning chip pan and spiltover his chest, legs, back and groin.
The 46-year-old, from Edenthorpe Grove, Owlthorpe, Sheffield, discovered the pan alight at 3.40amand was attempting to take it outside when the accident happened.
He dropped the pan after slipping on the floor.
He is thought to have suffered 60 per cent burns.
His 38-year-old wife was also taken to hospital after slipping down the stairs and twisting her ankle in the panic.
31 May 2005

ouch the groin, gotta hurt

Deep fried chips & fries are the bomb, so much nicer than the dry ones you get form oven cooking.
It's faster, cheaper and nicer, go for it.

how awful.

this just backs up, really, what I was saying, a couple of months ago, in this thread:-

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33407

PT

Originally posted by Jon
His 38-year-old wife was also taken to hospital after slipping down the stairs and twisting her ankle in the panic.


I know I shoudln't laugh but.........

Man - "Help, Help, I'm on fire"
Wife - "I can't, I'm at the bottom of the stairs with a busted ankle"

Don't laugh Nick .......... you could be accused of having a chip on your shoulder :hihi:

Originally posted by Plain Talker
how awful.

this just backs up, really, what I was saying, a couple of months ago, in this thread:-

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33407

PT

I am surprised chip pans are still used! those handles sticking out ! awful, electric non stick are so much safer and cleaner to use, and they don't cost that much either.

surely some manufacturer will be able to come up with a safer version/alternative to chip pans by now?

I would have to say that you can manage without deep frying altogether. Probably one of the most unhealthy methods of cooking, and they stink. Unless you are going to deep fry more than twice a week, you would probably better of saving the space and using the local chippy. And if you do deep fry more than twice a week, you are putting your health in severe danger.

Originally posted by scottf
surely some manufacturer will be able to come up with a safer version/alternative to chip pans by now?

Deep fat fryers are for sale everywhere for £20 or less.
As far as I know they have sold them since the 1970s

I know someone who gutted their house with an old fashioned chip pan, and I used to remember in horror my old Grandma, pouring hot fat from one pan to another over the flame. Which is probably the most stupid and dangerous things you could do.

I haven't had a deep fryer for 10 years and don't miss it at all. And have never had a chip pan.

A chef friend of mine told me that they sell the chip fat out of the huge deep fat friers in restaurants to cosmetic companies.

We have a deep fat fryer, however, we always use the ring furthest towards the wall so there's no chance of knocking it off with the handle, it's away from anything that can catch and we don't use it very often, in fact, I thought we'd binned it until I came home with 'oven chips' that you couldn't do in the oven, have to do them in a frier, so mum dug it out from the back of the cupboard, evicted the spiddies and did us the chips!

However, for ease, we would usually go to chippy, I'm sure that even home fried chips are better than chippy ones though! Usually if we have chips at all (which isn't all that often) we will have oven chips.

Originally posted by Lotti
We have a deep fat fryer, however, we always use the ring furthest towards the wall
Deep fat fryers are electric, you plug them into an electric socket and they heat up to frying temperature and stay there with a temperature.

You are talking about a chip pan which goes on the cooker hob.

Thanks Muddy Coffee! That is what I meant! we don't have a deep fat fryer, we have a chip pan!

Ooh, sorry for my youthful ignorance, but deep fat fryers sound so dangerous!

An electric plug in thing that spits hot fat? surely not....

Originally posted by Lotti
Ooh, sorry for my youthful ignorance, but deep fat fryers sound so dangerous!

An electric plug in thing that spits hot fat? surely not....

But the good thing with an electric fryer you can plug it in anywhere, i hardly deep fry,if i do i take mine out in the garage and plug it in there.

I think that the main danger Lotti is the flame, which can cause a fire, which requires special tecnique of smothering to put it out. Also a chip pan can get over hot, because it is not regulated with feedback.

Chip Pan Fires - How can they be avoided?

Easy. Move away from Barnsley (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?postid=74805), chip pan capital of Britain

Originally posted by muddycoffee
I think that the main danger Lotti is the flame, which can cause a fire, which requires special tecnique of smothering to put it out. Also a chip pan can get over hot, because it is not regulated with feedback.

I realise that, and they spit, but somehow one with an electric current seems so much worse...
Especially as with ours, you stick it to the back of the hob away from anything, whilst you have to have an electric one plugged in.

It's ok, it's probably just this innocence I have with these things, it just seems worse if it's plugged in...

I think Darwin refered to this as natural selection:suspect:

Why on earth can't people just cut a raw spud up into chip-size pieces and eat those.?
Then , there would be no danger of accidents of any kind , no nasty smells of cooking [ cooking smells ! ugh !] , it would be healthier all round and save on fuel bills.
A ban on all forms of cooking is worth thinking about-----it seems to cause nothing but trouble and expense.

I thought that raw potatoes were bad for you, at the very least you have to boil them, or bake them in the microwave?

Originally posted by Jon
Man burned by chip pan - A MAN suffered horrific burns after he dropped a burning chip pan and spiltover his chest, legs, back and groin.
The 46-year-old, from Edenthorpe Grove, Owlthorpe, Sheffield, discovered the pan alight at 3.40amand was attempting to take it outside when the accident happened.
He dropped the pan after slipping on the floor.
He is thought to have suffered 60 per cent burns.
His 38-year-old wife was also taken to hospital after slipping down the stairs and twisting her ankle in the panic.
31 May 2005

It just goes to show that fried food is bad for you.

But the main question this sorry tale raises is: precisely why was a man frying chips at 3.40am? Just how desperate for carbohydrate does one have to be? That's got to be a very serious case of the munchies. Which then points the greasy finger of blame at the supermarkets as usual. In the old days a brisk walk to an all-night garage would not only sober up an all-night weeder with some much-needed fresh air, but would also yield a stash of Mars bars and Twix to satisfy their carbo cravings. Now thanks to all the supermarkets the garages are being turned into flats, nocturnal home junk food cookery is rampant and A&E departments are filling up with parboiled and deep-fried unfortunates supporting wives with twisted ankles. It's global capitalism gone mad, it is...

so did the chips go cold?

Originally posted by Jon
Man burned by chip pan - A MAN suffered horrific burns after he dropped a burning chip pan and spiltover his chest, legs, back and groin.
The 46-year-old, from Edenthorpe Grove, Owlthorpe, Sheffield, discovered the pan alight at 3.40amand was attempting to take it outside when the accident happened.
He dropped the pan after slipping on the floor.
He is thought to have suffered 60 per cent burns.
His 38-year-old wife was also taken to hospital after slipping down the stairs and twisting her ankle in the panic.
31 May 2005

Chip pans, natural selection, yes, how daft do you have to be to still be using one?

My next door neighbours had a serious house fire a few years ago (nothing to do with a chip pan - it was an electrical fault in the washing machine), and they were trapped upstairs. Fortunately they were rescued by the fire brigade before any serious injuries happened. They are now, understandably quite paranoid about fires........however..........STILL USE A CHIP PAN!!!! Que?

More relevant still , Olive , do they still use a washing machine ?
Why can't people wash by hand ? Another thing that would save lives and money and keep our planet from overheating.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
I thought that raw potatoes were bad for you, at the very least you have to boil them, or bake them in the microwave?

Now that's one thing I do know! I don't however, know what raw potatoes do to you, but I know that you feel pretty sick after eating them and should therefore boil/bake them first!

Why are they called baked potatoes? Oven chips you cook, you do them in the same place as you bake potatoes. Therefore why are potatoes that are, really just cooked, called baked?

Can anyone tell me what exactly is the difference? why do you not cook a bun or a potato but you bake it instead? It's on the same heat in the same place as something you'd cook.

I'd like to get to the bottome of this please! There's probably something about what it is, but I'd appreciate somebody pointing it out!

Lottie x

Yup Fareast, washing machine going like the clappers.

Very easy to aviod chip pan fires... just don't eat chips!

Well, someone had to say it.

Originally posted by JBee
Very easy to aviod chip pan fires... just don't eat chips!

Well, someone had to say it.

Yes but there use for other things too, deep fried scallops, shrimps, fish fingers, and lots other good greasy stuff.

Originally posted by Lotti
Why are they called baked potatoes? Oven chips you cook, you do them in the same place as you bake potatoes. Therefore why are potatoes that are, really just cooked, called baked?
Can anyone tell me what exactly is the difference? why do you not cook a bun or a potato but you bake it instead? It's on the same heat in the same place as something you'd cook.

Lottie I think you are getting confused here. Baked potato is a large whole one which is wrapped up in foil and left in a hot oven for an hour or more. You can do them in the microwave (6 mins) but the skin isn't nice.
Usually eaten with butter and other toppngs, e.g. cottage cheese, chedder cheese & onion or baked beans..

Oven chips are chipped potatoes which you put on a baking tray, in a hot oven for about 25 mins. These are already part fried by the manufacturer before they are frozen to give them a bit of a fried chip taste. I prefer them to fried chips because they are drier and healthier tasting, but it's clear in previous posts that some people don't

Originally posted by joyphil
But the main question this sorry tale raises is: precisely why was a man frying chips at 3.40am?
Well said Joyphil. I usually have some toast or a pot noodle from the spar, or pot noodle with toast dipped in it.!

Think the mods should close this thread down, i'm getting hungrier with each post !

In a previous post , I suggested that people would save money and feel safer if they ate chips raw.
I feel really guilty about this as I have spotted another snag.
What if a drunk staggers home , fancies some raw chips and then cuts him/her self whilst slicing up a spud. It makes the blood run cold.
The only sensible way is to register all drinkers of alcohol , who should then carry a ration card and a mature adult would only be allowed , say two pints a night ; those aged between 18 and 21 would be allowed one pint. This would soon see a reduction in all kinds of household accidents and , let's face it , we would all be a damned sight healthier !
As for smoking, that could be banned altogether.Drinkers are notorious for leaving dog-ends smouldering and the next thing we know , the whole place is alight.
The quicker the government acts , the better. The sooner we have a risk-free , danger-free , accident-free society , the more sound we will sleep in our beds.

Originally posted by Fareast
The quicker the government acts , the better. The sooner we have a risk-free , danger-free , accident-free society , the more sound we will sleep in our beds.

Just sit tight for a couple of years. The New Labour Project will have eliminated all risk and liability by then. But they'll also have eradicated any vestige of personal responsibility, so should any kind of accident happen writs will fly like confetti. What a Utopia we stand on the cusp of creating.

In the meantime boozers and stoners would do well to stock up on crisps and biscuits. It's a jungle out there in the kitchen...

Originally posted by GrahamY
Maybe if chip shops gave free chips to drunken people a lot of these fires could be avoided.

i think dont buy a fryin pan simple as that:loopy:

Have salad.

</victoria wood>

simple dont buy a chip pan

How much do we have to protect people from their own stupidity??? Nothing wrong with a deep fat fryer if you use it properly.

Individuals have to take some responsibility for their own health and safety!

A lot of things are dangerous if not used correctly, just don't be stupid, how difficult is that?

Also, know what to do if you have a chip pan fire - use a damp tea towel - how difficult is that?