chips beautiful chips

Michele took these gorgeous photos on the chip shop tour

Chip shop tour photos now online

Check out www.walkwalkwalk.org.uk for more photos of the chip shop tour of E8.

Left over chips anyone?

I couldn't bring myself to put these in the bin..... but not sure I'll be eating them this morning either (note the beautiful poke, wrapped by the masters at the Golden Star)

Chip Shop Tour Tomorrow Night

Dear all,

We would like to invite you to join us for the Chip Shop Tour of E8, this Thursday 21st June. The tour is part of 'E8: The Heart of Hackney', the current exhibition at Transition Gallery.

The tour will lead you to chip shops you never new existed and to well known favourites; exploring the area of E8 through an examination of its chippies. Observe the variety of Formica ‘ranges’, look out for the flying dolphin wallpaper, or meet the Golden Star's Fryer - he thinks all chips are terrible – but possibly creates the best chips in E8!

Along the way sample the fare in one of our three specially designed commemorative chip paper wrappers. Witness live the under-rated art of chip wrapping and poke-folding.

Read our Chip Shop Stories and view the chip photo archive here on our blog, find out more about us at www.walkwalkwalk.org.uk

This event is also part of Architecture Week 2007 (more info at http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/event.asp?eventURN=3567)

Meet at 7pm at Transition Gallery, for a prompt start.

Hope to see you there!

Clare, Serena and Gail

ps the walk will take approximately two and a half hours

Transition Gallery
2nd Floor
Unit 25a Regents Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8

http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk

Nearest tube is Bethnal Green
Nearest over ground is Cambridge Heath or London Fields
You can take any bus that goes to Hackney, along Mare Street, e.g. number 55 or 48

Chip Eaters with walkwalkwalk pokes

evening, Friday 15th June, outside Broadway Fish Bar

walkwalkwalk eat chips

Friday 15th June, Transition Gallery, E8
We eat three pokes of chips made by Broadway Fish Bar - freshly cooked, hot and delicious with salt and vinegar, and served in our specially designed commemorative chip paper wrapper! Get there quick to eat your own portion - in one of three special chip papers while stocks last!

E8 Chip Wrappers in the Perseverance

Spotted in the Perseverance pub on Pritchards road,
Saturday 16th June, approx 4 pm

Not all Fryers Resort to Dry White

At the Golden Star…
‘It’s such hard work. I work so hard. Everything by hand. Scrubbing and peeling, scrubbing, all the time. This time of year potatoes are terrible. End of season. They leave them sitting in the warehouse. They are all shrivelled, soft; potatoes are terrible! Put them in the machine to peel them, goes round and round – won’t work! They are too soft. Have to do everything by hand. Hours! And they are so expensive. So expensive! Never come down in price. Ten, twelve pounds a bag. Start of season three pounds. Wholesaler says ‘That’s the price’. And they are full of black bits. Can’t get them out in the machine. Have to cut everyone by hand. The eyes go right through the potato. If you put them in the machine, still leaves some black inside. There is no potato left! Hours I am cutting. Some people use Dry White. From the catalogue. Put the powder in the water with the potatoes, make them all white, take away the black bits. Customer thinks, mmm, nice white chips. But the fumes! Just a bit in the water and I’m standing over it and my eyes are hurting. Horrible. I never use it. Just everything by hand, so hard.'

more chip whitening

just finding out a bit more about this....
"Chip-whitener can be added to the water at this stage to prevent the chips from turning brown; however, chip whitener has a major disadvantage as it produces an acid layer on the surface of the chips that attack the oil, leading to rapid breakdown. The advantage of chip-whitener is that it allows for preparation of large quantities at one time without their turning brown, thereby achieving better utilisation of labour." that's from The perfect CHIP Information by courtesy of Hudson & Knight: Perfect Frying in Oil – The Ultimate Manual From Crispa Frying Solution online at http://www.hospitalityforum.co.za/ad_perfectchip.html

dry whitener

heard a shocking story in the Golden Star today, at this time of year, so we're told, some chip shops use a scary sounding product called dry whitener to pep up their end of season potatoes and disguise the black bits so they don't have to cut them out by hand - or waste lots of the potato by running them through the peeling machine 'til all the bits are gone......

getting ready for the chip shop tour

We went out today to show the chip shops our customised wrapping papers. Here's Serena with some from Brittania on Mare Street in one of our very own walkwalkwalk chip wrappers.