[Closed] Egg, Chips and Beans

A lad i used to go drinking with in my younger days had a tattoo on his back that read 'Chips, Egg & Beans'. Obviously enjoyed the meal as much as you lot.

Eggs must be fried. Minimum 2.
They can touch the beans, but just a bit.
Eggs can go on top of chips. Or under for dipping.
Beans shouldn't soggy the chips.
Salt only, no place for vinegar here.
Brown Sauce allowed if HP.

Thems the rules. Now let's do this!

Had to share ours as the girls got wind of what we were having and came home to visit

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Beans should be heated on the hob for no less than 15 minutes

Agreed, and should form a skin as they cool down… 😋

Tracey, please let me apologise for what follows...but
1. Beans too runny. Need to be warmed (but not boiled) for another hour.
2. Fish fingers - Sloppy. Left to burn. (sorry)
3. The “chips” are floppy, I can tell, but worst of all, they’ve got skin on them. That’s never allowed.
4. The round, plump, brown thing with bits of grain in it at the top should be a square, white flat thing with enough coating of butter (at the right temperature) so as to leave bite marks.
5. Finally, there’s no goddam egg.
Honestly. Amateurs.
As you were.....

🤣

half litre G&T

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.

Your ketchup is a suspicious colour, though.

That beige cubist relief sculpture with the pink mousse is interesting.

However, to work:

Eggs must be fried. Minimum 2.

Indeed. And chips must be home-made or frozen, not chip shop. Thin to medium crinkle-cut to capture yolk and sauces, and also for extra flavour (more golden surface area per chip)

They can touch the beans, but just a bit.

Yet again on the nosey

Eggs can go on top of chips. Or under for dipping.

Are we related?

Beans shouldn’t soggy the chips.

Dad?

Salt only, and vinegar only on the chips and egg. no place for vinegar here.

Zounds, an imposter. ^ FTFY

Brown Sauce allowed if HP Daddies or 'OK'

All better.

PS yes to beans must be heated properly until dull and gooey the plate. Shiny slippery beans are too cold or heated too quickly to have produced the correct flavours and texture.

I’m trying to lose weight at the moment, this thread is hell ha ha.

I can’t decide which I love more, Egg Beans and Chips or Fish Finger Sandwihes. I worked a system to ‘get’ 6 in each (by eating 2 as I’m making them).

Not sure what all this nonsense about dipping eggs is about. Only one way to eat fried eggs. Trim and eat all the white from around the yolk and then the yolk is eaten whole in one go.

Admittedly, I don't know anyone else who eats them like this, and my wife gives me a proper disgusted look every time I do it...

PS yes to beans must be heated properly until dull and gooey the plate. Shiny slippery beans are too cold or heated too quickly to have produced the correct flavours and texture.

Oh god yes, beans need to be cooked, not just warmed.

My inherent tightness lead me off the path recently and I bought Branston Beans, they’ve been half-price in Tesco for months. They’re about 80% okay, can’t justify a reduction in happiness like that for the sake of a few pence.

Lush

^Have tried being precious with baked beans yet after extensive home-lab blind taste-tests* I can report the following

Cans of regular baked beans taste like baked beans whether a 27p Aldidl job or a best part of a quid tin of H****57 from the corner shop. Especially after 15-20 mins on a low heat.

OP has it right. nice and simple, but with bread and butter - no need to sully the plate with pig flesh.

Salt & Vinegar everywhere!

I am fairly sure that my gran, who was a black belt tenth dan at cooking, used to pop a drop of full fat milk into the pan of baked beans and yes, cooked on them on the hob until dull and gooey, not shiny and runny.

One of my aunties used to buy beans from Aldi while my family is a staunch proponent of Heinz.

She used to say "well what can you expect for 4p* a tin? Anyway - beans are beans."

Those last four words almost caused me to fillet her with a butter knife.

*I'm going back a while here.

Yes, we rinse out the tin with a spot of milk.

 

Pleased to note the general appreciation of long simmering times for beans. Also the use of 'basting' as applied to fried eggs gives me hope for mankind.

But, putting vinegar on this meal is a travesty.

Get ye behind me, Satan.

Well guess what we're having for dinner tonight!!

Egg's won't be flipped - they'll be gently bathed in hot oil to ensure firm whites and runny yolks.
Brown sauce, salt and vinegar will be used - sorry.

As for having a barrier - my Mrs would disagree as she has this thing where she just cuts the whole lot up and mixes it all together - weird right???

Sorry to spoil all your fun but i am going to be “that guy” in this thread. I hate eggs and wont have them in any form anywhere near my chips and beans! I am going to be “that guy” again and say i stopped eating beans years ago because the wind they created was just too much. I love beans but i only break my bean hiatus when i go abroad and its part of an all you eat breakfast buffet. I then have some and hope to time the wind to happen when i am swimming so thst i get a little extra propulsion in the water.

I was offered soup for tea last night, refused as I'd had soup for lunch.

Home made chips, beans and 2 fried eggs it was ! And I mixed the been juice with eggyness.

Sorry to spoil all your fun

If you think your snowflake attitude to eggs and beans is going to spoil our simple pleasure in the same then you are wrong.

Now begone weirdo!

Home made chips, beans and 2 fried eggs it was ! And I mixed the been juice with eggyness.

This guy gets it!

Bangers and mash tonight, and brown sauce. Peas or beans ? Or both, or carrots, or all of em.

Onion gravy only for me with bangers and mash.

Gravy only with bangers and mash for me too. Anything else just sullies the experience

Carrots? CARROTS?!!

On the beans front, does anyone else drop a fair old wedge of butter in with them while they’re cooking?

You can even stack the chip in the form of an actual wall.

You are Donald Trump and I claim my £5

Does anyone else here occasionally mix beans and tinned tomatoes, or is that just me?

Beans juice and mash on the same plate actually makes me feel a bit queasy. I think it's some deeply repressed school dinner thing involving low quality beans and mash.

OK.... It was Bangers, mash, garden peas and a few beans ! + Brown sauce.
No carrots.

We are currently trying to use up what's in the freezer before we re-fill it.

Binners, Rone & Partridge +1

Had to share ours as the girls got wind

It's the beans.

Tested the theory tonight that cheap supermarket beans cooked long and slow are as good as the H57... it’s a revelation!! Although I did liven them up with paprika and cayenne pepper...

i stopped eating beans years ago because the wind they created was just too much.

Whimp you dont know what wind is until you have tried homemade Boston Blackeyed Beans.
Just thinking about it makes me bend double.

I can't believe that no one has mentioned what must happen at the end of this wonderful meal.
Keep a few chips back to make a chip buttie to mop the egg yolk and bean sauce up.
Stodgy heaven.

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Great. Lunchtime here in Oz and all I want now is sausage egg chips and beans...

Hmm...

Inspired by an earlier post on this thread, I've just had ham and eggs for lunch. Bloody great, it was! 😀

No beans though, as that would be just plain wrong

Stuck for what to do for dinner tonight, then STW won again 😀

oh man that looks lovely - missing the snags though. And an adult sized plate? :p

missing the snags though.

Egg, chips and beans

And an adult-sized plate?

Often get asked if I might instead 'wear grown-up shorts?'
And yet, even when I show them the 'XXL' label they still frown as if somehow I'm pulling a fast one.

When I was around nine my 'rich' aunty asked what my favourite meal was so she could cook it for me.

I replied egg chips and beans, naturally. She turned up her nose and pronounced that was just a snack.

She said would you like a nice steak. I replied I don't know what that is.

My life from that moment forward has been coloured by that divide in so many ways.

So tonight in honour of that moment I will be having my favourite meal with plastic bread - delicious

Bravo, Malvern Rider. Served on a saucer but a meal to make us proud...and yet...
Firstly the tea. Top marks for the mug, but I’m afraid it’s downhill all the way after that. The keen eyed will notice a transparency to the liquid contained therein. This is typical of too short a brew time, with too little milk in an attempt to try and counter the weakness.
Moving on to the chips, the black tips indicate that they’ve been cooked in an oven. Never acceptable. Get some big fat maris pipers and get the fryer on. There really is no substitue.
A better effort with the beans. They’ve clearly been on the hob longer than Tracey’s cursory warm through in the microwave, but if the keen gourmet zooms in, he/she will notice a little more liquid sauce to the right. 7/10
Finally the eggs. What’s going on there? A little ragged at the edges. Wrong kind of oil. Doesn’t have a hot enough smoke point. Also displays the “half moon sign” i.e. yolk which is half white/opaque, half yellow. Signifies that the “cook” can’t be arsed to baste the egg evenly. Sloppy.
All in all, a modest attempt. 6/10. If there was more effort with the chips, it may have been a 7 plus.