4 Levels of Fish & Chips: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious

We challenged chefs of three different skill levels - amateur Bianca, home cook Julie, and professional chef Palak Patel from the Institute of Culinary Education - to fry us up some fish and chips. Once each chef had presented their dish, we asked food scientist Rose to explain their choices. Which fry up gets your tastebuds at attention?


Follow Chef Palak on Instagram at @chefpalak
Julie is on Instagram at @jb2960
Follow Bianca at @its_bink
Find Rose at @rosemarytrout_foodscience

Give the Institute of Culinary Education a follow at @iceculinary



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[rononyonka]

Measurement Systems
Americans: Imperial system
British (& most of the world): Metric system
Julie: iPhone system

[bekozhang]

Frank is busy in writing his newspaper to wrap the fish

[llllllllllllllllliiii]

i love how people still talk about frank even though he’s not even in the video

[federicasanna]

"We've cut it almost like the size of a small iphone"
Ah yes, the american measurements

[alexanderwilson]

Frank is busy growing a forest to make his newspaper to wrap the chips

[padmajakalyan]

So, Fish and chips is what it takes to get literally every British person on YouTube to comment.

[sleepykat]

Frank isn't here right now because he is reading a bedtime story to his fish

[tv]

Julie seriously seems like she has had the most interesting life

[Rhinneh]

‘Repeat after me, fries and chips are not the same’ *distant sound of brits crying with joy*

[TheMrWoodLin]

Julie seems like she’s been all over the world. What a lucky woman

[PetiteKatesCorner]

Level 3 Chef: "We'll rough chop it, it's just pub food"
Also Level 3 Chef: Makes her own mayonnaise and triple cooks her chips with duck fat

[someguycalledt]

Julie makes Crisps instead of Chips

*Britain has entered the chat*

Julie says Tartare Sauce is American

*France has entered the chat*

[takocat]

Level 1 is like when you’re making something at home while pretending you’re on a cooking tv show

[ananassiks]

"For chips part I like to make actual chips" Julie is 'bout to start a war here. :D

[littlebigdaniel_]

Meanwhile Frank is seasoning his ocean to grow his fish

[finhill]

When the level 2 chef makes chips like crisps
British people: I can’t believe you’ve done this

[chilibreath]

Not shown: Julie holding a small iPhone against the fish before cutting them in pieces.

[yutianfeng]

I actually really like this level 3 chef, she's always smiling

[KTheories]

"These chips are gonna be darker than your usual fries, but it's how they serve them in pubs"

I have *never* seen any pub here in the UK serve Fish and Chip chips _that_ dark.

[danielhdidouan]

Bianca, Julie, Palak and Rose = the super group we never knew we needed.