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Chip Month

Milquetoast’s chip butty.

‘British people’s eyes light up’ at this luscious take on a chip butty

Where to find it? Look for the wine bar in the old garage right in the guts of the CBD.

  • Matt Shea
Hot chips

We ranked 37 of Sydney’s takeaway hot chips to find the city’s best

From vintage suburban classics dating back to 1971, to the hatted and the hyped, we disregarded our cholesterol in our comprehensive search for deep-fried potato perfection.

  • Good Food team
Good Food tried hot chips from 32 Melbourne venues.

Good Food ranked Melbourne’s best hot chips, and a surprise westside fish and chipper took top spot

From Mount Waverley to Maidstone, chicken shops to burger bars, we tasted 32 different hot chips. These 11 are the ones to know.

  • Good Food team
Morgan McGlone's four ingredient chicken salt.
EASY

This four-ingredient chicken salt is the closest thing you’ll get to takeaway chips at home

Created by the Belles Hot Chicken founder, it’s made with everyday pantry staples – but one important ingredient – and great tossed through buttery popcorn, nuts or a tray of chips.

  • < 30 mins
  • Morgan McGlone
Somewhere between shoestring and thick-cut, the chips are painstakingly placed vertically on the buttered bread, creating four or so layers, and the perfect cross-section.

No ifs, only butties: This Melbourne chip butty is a carb-on-carb crowd-pleaser

Not one to underestimate the power of simple, nostalgic food, this cafe is serving a “crispy-chewy” chip butty supercharged by house-made HP sauce.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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It doesn't get much better than this, the ones from Frank's Deli.

We’ve crowned Sydney’s best steak frites sandwich, plus eight more chip sangas to try

It might be hard to smoosh the ingredients together so you can pick it up, but its superb chips-to-meat-and-sauce ratio makes our number one unmissable.

  • Erina Starkey, Isabel Cant and Sarah Norris
Frank Sweet with the perfect chip.

From the bleachy to the bubbly: The ultimate plain-salted crisp taste test

In a quest to find the best, Frank Sweet blind taste-tested 17 plain-salted crisps. Which home-brand supermarket crisps knocked the posh ones off the podium?

  • Frank Sweet
Australia invented the Halal Snack Pack (HSP)

Australia is the hot chip capital of the world, but this is how we could do it better

Belgium invented them, America’s famous for them, but there’s no food more universally loved by our multicultural country than chips. Let’s embrace it even more.

  • Adam Liaw
Elvis Abrahanowicz with his hand-cut chips at served at Joe's Tavern and Mister Grotto in Sydney.

Some chefs wouldn’t be caught dead serving frozen fries. For others it’s essential

To hand cut or buy frozen – that’s the question we put to restaurants. Some declined to answer, others say it’s a necessary corner to cut.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Animal fries, featuring burger sauce, caramelised onions and zero shame.

How to make In-N-Out Burger’s famous off-menu loaded fries

Plus four other genius recipes to upgrade frozen crinkle cuts, including leftover bolognese fries and ’nduja, hot honey and feta chips.

  • Katrina Meynink