Glaucus
05-10-2010, 20:21
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food-drink/americans-claim-to-save-soggy-british-dish-blog-8-gaby-leslie.html
An American company claims it has finally come up with the answer for preserving the crispy texture of one of Britain’s most popular food delicacies - fish and chips.
A tangy vinegar-flavoured white powder called ‘Malt Salt’ sprinkled onto the traditional take-away food could be the solution to preventing the fish and chips from turning soggy, according to US food inventors Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow.
Malt Salt is made by blending salt and vinegar flavouring together in a £2.80 plastic salt shaker, appropriately embellished with a Union Flag.
A spokesman for the inventors said: “We've had the idea of producing vinegar in powder form for some time but didn't quite know how to make it work until one day we decided to make a sample of Malt Salt."
“We added malt vinegar-flavoured seasoning to sea salt and the result is salt and vinegar flavoured chips without the sogginess.”
Les Lock, owner of the Dolphin Fish Bar in Bournemouth, told The Telegraph: “I'm looking forward to trying some of it. Some people do like their chips soggy and others prefer them crispy – it's all down to the
“It would be great to be able to offer people a choice when they're having vinegar on their food. Of course, fish and chips is a traditional dish so it would have to be good to get people to change their habits, but stranger things have
“It just might work – I wish I'd thought of it myself.
The ‘Malt Salt’ makers might just prove John Major wrong, who famously said while he was Tory Prime Minister that the best way is to put the salt on last so the vinegar doesn’t wash it away.
anyone else think this company hasn't done any trials.
FFS it is not vinegar that makes it soggy, it is the steam produced from the food when wrapped up. Total fail on their part me thinks.
And I often wondered why someone hasn't made a chip wrapper that works well. I hate it when chip shops serve it in polystyrene boxes, it's worse than paper for condensation. Perhaps I should go to the invention shed.
This quote is also so wrong
The ‘Malt Salt’ makers might just prove John Major wrong, who famously said while he was Tory Prime Minister that the best way is to put the salt on last so the vinegar doesn’t wash it away.
Salt goes on first, otherwise it clings to the vinegar parts. Vinegar also absorbs the slat into the chips..
Total bunch of heathens.
/rant
An American company claims it has finally come up with the answer for preserving the crispy texture of one of Britain’s most popular food delicacies - fish and chips.
A tangy vinegar-flavoured white powder called ‘Malt Salt’ sprinkled onto the traditional take-away food could be the solution to preventing the fish and chips from turning soggy, according to US food inventors Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow.
Malt Salt is made by blending salt and vinegar flavouring together in a £2.80 plastic salt shaker, appropriately embellished with a Union Flag.
A spokesman for the inventors said: “We've had the idea of producing vinegar in powder form for some time but didn't quite know how to make it work until one day we decided to make a sample of Malt Salt."
“We added malt vinegar-flavoured seasoning to sea salt and the result is salt and vinegar flavoured chips without the sogginess.”
Les Lock, owner of the Dolphin Fish Bar in Bournemouth, told The Telegraph: “I'm looking forward to trying some of it. Some people do like their chips soggy and others prefer them crispy – it's all down to the
“It would be great to be able to offer people a choice when they're having vinegar on their food. Of course, fish and chips is a traditional dish so it would have to be good to get people to change their habits, but stranger things have
“It just might work – I wish I'd thought of it myself.
The ‘Malt Salt’ makers might just prove John Major wrong, who famously said while he was Tory Prime Minister that the best way is to put the salt on last so the vinegar doesn’t wash it away.
anyone else think this company hasn't done any trials.
FFS it is not vinegar that makes it soggy, it is the steam produced from the food when wrapped up. Total fail on their part me thinks.
And I often wondered why someone hasn't made a chip wrapper that works well. I hate it when chip shops serve it in polystyrene boxes, it's worse than paper for condensation. Perhaps I should go to the invention shed.
This quote is also so wrong
The ‘Malt Salt’ makers might just prove John Major wrong, who famously said while he was Tory Prime Minister that the best way is to put the salt on last so the vinegar doesn’t wash it away.
Salt goes on first, otherwise it clings to the vinegar parts. Vinegar also absorbs the slat into the chips..
Total bunch of heathens.
/rant