Americans claim to save soggy British dish

[Glaucus]

http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food-d...by-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

[Knipples]

Theres a chip shop in Bristol (I cant remember which one) that has started putting its fish and chips in cardboard boxes, with air holes on the sides to help the condensation escape and therefore keep it crispy, so you may have been beaten to it sorry.

[Mark]

I don't have vinegar on my chips anyway. Fail!

Edit - and thanks for the reminder - I got my chicken and chips on Brighton Pier in a cardboard box with holes. Definitely beaten.

[Burble]

Originally Posted by Mark

I don't have vinegar on my chips anyway. Fail!

Yes, that is indeed a fail.

[Mondo]

I don't put salt and vinegar on it anyway, if i do, i do it when i get home.

Normally i just have some ketchup and thats it.

[Glaucus]

Originally Posted by Mark

Definitely beaten.

Darn it, back to work tomorrow then.

Originally Posted by Burble

Yes, that is indeed a fail.

Indeed massive fail. Tasteless rubbish with out salt, I can almost forgive no vinegar, who am I kidding no I can't.
Heathen.

[Jonny69]

I like my chips a bit on the soggy side. Easier to cram in your mouth when they're like that

[Garp]

I'm slowly but surely converting people here to the awesomeness that is Vinegar on chips.

[Mark]

Tried it, didn't like the taste. Would be prepared to try again.

Added salt? Certainly. I'm not that much of a heathen!

[divine]

I just put it on at home. Much easier.