Fish and Chips from a Bygone era
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- Here in Durham I heard about a Family that have been cooking fish and chips for 115 years cooking the old fashioned way in beef dripping and a secret batter and wrapped in newspaper so I just had to go and check it out .
OMG, proper fish & chips like I used to get at least 30 year back. Mouth slapping goodness 🤯
Thanks for your comments much appreciated
Proper f&c beef dripping fired by coal Marvellous 🤩 🤗🤗
Yes this is the real deal. I am 68 and I can just remember a fish and chips shop in Cemaes in Anglesey that was coal fired. I was fuelled up at the end just like this range.
Hi Ian and thanks for your comments me and you same age so we know about some of the nice things from years ago , never heard about that place in Anglesey but I’m going to check it out .Thanks again and have a great weekend
We must support the tradition before it's lost forever
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Am on my way cannot wait to try these fish and chips cooked in beef dripping, am drooling from the mounth
My family ran a chip shop jn a little village in Cornwall called Mevagissey, they used lard to fry in, this gives a sweeter lighter taste then beef dripping. I spent many a summer holidays in that cafe. Such a better time and place in the 70s-80s
Thanks Sanderly and that sounds idyllic , yes my mam used to also cook with Lard I wonder if any Chip shops use this I would love to do a Vlogg with that as a point of difference , Thanks for your comments and yes the 70s were FAB
We used to use lard if we could'nt get proper dripping. Cow or pig fat, the dog's dooda's !!
Thanks for your comments Bob much appreciated
@@thedurhamvlogger can you imagine how lucky the customers are if their local chippy uses lard, I'd be there in a flash
@@Sanderly1820 Sounds amazing and id love to try , Thanks for your comments much appreciated
Avoid Asian and halal fish and chip shops
I will bear that in mind thanks for watching much appreciated
omg, i nearly cried. this is it. this is what i want and can’t have. I think i have to make a pilgrimage.
Hi Ray and thanks for your comments and hope one day you will get to sample these , Have a great weekend .
We live in Consett, so will have to try this out - looks tasty! Thanks again, brilliant as always Kevin 🙂
Thanks for your comments BuddieNE and yes the way they are cooked gives them a unique taste , hope you enjoy as much as I did
The peas have so much food colouring you can see them from the moon 😂
Hi sainy I cannot argue against that , thanks for your comments much appreciated
Thought exactly the same, 375. I had to put some "shades" on to watch it, like !
What an amazing shop.
Love it 👍
Thanks for your comments boyakka79 much appreciated .
With all the theft from utility companies they must be quids in.
Good point Nigel thanks for your comments
I was just thinking when she was putting the vinegar on the fish, that looked like the best fish and chips I'd ever set eyes on, and your body language and words said all the rest 👍
Think you made their day going back to compliment them, they looked delic!
Thank you for your comments and yes I just had to go back and tell them
what a cool fish and chip shop that is and cooking them the old fashioned way too absolutely brilliant, food always tastes even better eating it outside too, thanks for the vid kev brilliant as always.
Thank you Lee and yes I totally agree with you .
Dam that looks delicious ❤ long May it continue 😊
Thank you its appreciated
They looked fab. I'll have to try those. You do great reviews. Keep up the good work.
Beef dripping fish and chips. 🤤 get the salt and vinegar put on and by the time you’d got them back home the fat had cooled with the vinegar and solidified slightly, tasted delicious. 🤤😍
Thanks for your comments normality and yes yes yes I agree
Outstanding mate 👍👍👍
Thanks Glyn much appreciated
Do they do fish patties , fish in between 2 potato slices 🤔 can't get them anywhere, I used to get them from Evenwood in durham years ago when we had a caravan there.
They have them In Rossington South Yorkshire
That fat Fillet looks just like the ones my mom used to fry up for us at home as a treat when we were kids . Delicious !
Thanks for your comments Scott much appreciated and pleased it brought you some good memories.
Great review as always fish and chips looks gorgeous
Thank you Greg the taste was something else , ,have a great weekend I fear the sunshine won't last long .
Ah thought it would be a coal fired range, as you said the old-fashioned way. Think there's one in a small village that only opens 2 days a week and then only for a few hours. Nostalgia, bet the prices have gone up 😁 Got to be said. real finger food, served in paper. Bang on. See ya in the next one. Allan and family
Thanks for your comments Allan and yes not many of these left now , I know they have working one of these in Beamish museum which is super popular waiting times around one and a half hours .
Alan are you on about the one in upton, near gainsborough cos if you are, I've been and it's absolutely fantastic but be prepared to queue 😊😊😊😊
The only other coal fired fish and chip shop that I know of(apart from the one in Beamish), is in Upton in Lincolnshire. Apparently, that one has been going since 1948.
Thanks for your comments much appreciated and yes I think you’re right .
Asians can't make proper fish and chips like we British can't do Indians, am going to try it sometime traditional 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Looks absolutely amazing Fish n Chips and if I ever come that far up the country I will definitely try it👌👍. No need for the peas to be that green though, unnecessary and if anything off-putting 🤢, make proper Mushy Peas and that place could be the best place ever.
Thanks for your comments they are appreciated and yes a few people have commented , I must admit ive never seen peas that colour although they tasted okay and I agree I love home made authentic style
Proper chip shop,no shite halal there, well done
Looks amazing 👍
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only thing missing is 2 rounds of bread , banging meal 😘👏
Do you know you are 100% right , I did ask for bread and butter but they only did buns so I didn't bother , Thanks for your comments much appreciated
Quality video Kevin, food looked lovely
Thanks for your kind comments much appreciated
Thumbs up mate looked great You got a new sub.
Thank you kindly much appreciated
Just come across this channel today and I love it. That fish and chips looks amazing!! Great video mate you’ve a new subscriber in me 👍🏼
Thank you kindly that's much appreciated and yes the Fish and Chips were super tasty .
Very nice …….it is impossible to get decent fish & chips, beige chips seem to be a thing these days
Thanks for your comments Dave and your absolutely right
pleased you enjoyed the taste is so much better than normal fish and chips
Hi Chris and thanks for your comments and yes 100% better taste
Certainly sounded Gorgeous 🤔😜
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@@thedurhamvlogger no probs mate
I love fields!
Thanks for your comments Robert and yes a fab place
Those peas look almost radioactive…what a shame they felt the need to colour them that much it would of put me right off the rest of the food if they were willing to do that
Thanks for your comments and yes technicolour springs to mind
Best fish & chips I've seen. Is it cod or haddock; skin on/off? Thanks!
Hi Dale thanks for your comments, it’s skinless Cod and was delicious.
@@thedurhamvlogger Perfect! Yummy! My Dad's father used to operate the exact same set-up in Hammersmith, circa 1930.
All it needs is a nice bottle a Newcastle brown ale 👍
Now ya talking and I agree , than in a for your comments
so damn cool!
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That looks great but nearly £13 for a bit of fish that small is ridiculous but very common now. Luckily i can still get large cod about 3-4 times the size of the bit of fish on this video, along with large chips, peas, a bread roll, scraps and jumbo sauasge in batter for just shy of £10. The fish chips and peas are £7.95, sausage is £1.50, bread roll 50p and scraps are free. It's nice anyway, but sometimes you get the cod loin and it is amazing! They use the beef dripping aswell. I always use that when cooking my own at home.
But like with the place in this video, if the fish and chips are exceptional you don't mind paying a bit more for them.
Hi JacknVictor thanks for your input its appreciated and yes prices have rocketed lately especially on the coast down at Whitby for a couple buying fish and chips with a drink each your talking close to £40 , you are lucky having a bargain chippy and yes the quality was there so I didn't really mind
@@thedurhamvlogger yeah I am but I don't expect it to last. I reckon prices will go £10+ for half the size potion we get now soon. Most of the chippies around have already,I think this one is trying to hold out for as long as it can. What gets me is this all started around COVID when there were limited supplies so prices went up, but now there's an abundance, the chippies aren't putting the prices down because they are wise to the fact that people will pay those prices. Potatoes are a lot cheaper now than they were before COVID, and fish prices haven't gone up enough to substantiate and justify chip shops charging around a fiver before COVID to anywhere between around £10-£21+ after COVID as seen In a lot of chip shops nation wide. You used to be able to get a fish/chips/peas special with a small fish decent amount of chips and peas or curry etc for £3.50 at one of our local chip shops which was popular with school kids and local workers etc, plus it was an all day special so come tea time you could get it for £3.50 still. Since all these price rises, they don't do it as a special no more, they've changed its name to "large fish and chips" and the large they used to do is now called "XL fish and chips" and instead of them costing £3.50 and £5.50 respectively, they are now £9.95 and £14.95, and £1 extra if you want to sit in and eat. All these chip shops are going to price people out of being able to afford them, to the point chip shops will go the way pubs are going, and closing down in their hundreds. It's such a shame, when we was kids, you used to be able to go into a chippy, empty any change you had in your pocket, whether it be wtp or a couple of quid, and you could ask them for chips up to the value of whatever change you had and you would get it. If they start closing, future generations of kids will lose the experience on a bit of a crappy day, of going in to the chippy, getting an open portion of chips salt and vinegar n, and walking home in the cold with your mates and eating those hot delicious beauties. The memories I have with my mates and even with my dad who's no longer here anymore, just enjoying some chips on the way home or on holidays at the seaside. Now you need a mortgage payment to afford it.
You used to be able to guarantee that no matter where you set foot in the British Isles, whether England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland and Ireland, North South East or West, you could get amazing chips from amazing chippies and not break the bank. It was an affordable meal for everyone. Now not only are the prices beyond poorer families but, although I'm not rich I have enough to retire on if I want to, and even I struggle with accepting that 2 medium potatoes that cost 15p each, cut into chips and fried, is worth paying £4.50 a bag for in a chip shop. The prices have gone up but the quality in a lot of them has gone right down. They do too many items on the menu to be excellent n the ones that mature. Quantity over quality. At least that fields looked like it offered quality. Loved the video you did aswell, no nonsense and you went back and said thank you afterwards. Manners cost nowt, and my dad would always do that, if we got chips to eat in the way out, he would always stick his head in the door on the way back and give them a thumbs up. Mind you, he would let them know if it wasn't up to scratch either!
I'll stop writing now, if I put much more I'll have to release it as a paperback!
Hi jacknvictor yes its a sign of the times and its sad that something that was a staple for many could end up being priced out of many peoples reach and we will be left with Pubs offering inferior product , I like your dad and he was absolutely right manners cost nowt and I always tell them if I enjoyed the meal and likewise if I had concerns . Ps I sense you could be from Yorkshire if im wrong apologies .
Way too heavy on the food colouring for the peas there. They're marrowfat peas that need to be steeped overnight. You usually add 2 tablets to add a bit more of the green colour, but seems like they added 10 in that one! Anyway lovely to see a traditional chippy still around.
Yeah need your sunglasses on for those peas and thanks for your comments much appreciated
The first time I checked this channel out, there were no close-ups of the food, just you holding a fork up. I have no idea what the price was, maybe I missed it. Most food reviewers on TH-cam say the price a few times throughout the review.
Hi jays and thanks for your comments , I did forget to mention the price but did include a print of it at the point of purchase £12.70p and did include a close up of the freshly cooked fish and chips just before before they were wrapped , I normally always include more close ups than that but my second camera I was using for this the memory card malfunctioned and I lost that footage and I was gutted that I lost this footage , I hope this didn't spoil your viewing .
Thanks for the reply. Yes I watched a few of your other vlogs, and you're right, I see the prices and more close ups. Good job mate. I wish you the best of luck with your channel 😊 just subscribed
Those peas though mate.....I was going to describe them as luminous but they were down right incandescent 🤣
The fish you only described as white....pollock , haddock , hake , cod ? I need to know as only cod works for me.
Personally I couldn't give it a 10 mate but would consider a road trip with a little more info 👍
Hi and thanks for your comments and I cannot argue about the peas and I should have had my shades on when I was eating those , and your right I didn’t say what fish it was but did put a banner up at point of purchase with details of fish and price , and perhaps I was a bit generous giving it a ten and that was based on the actual taste of the fish and chips which I thought was different to any others I have tried and took me right back to when I use to go to a little fish and chip shop in the midlands fifty years ago , anyway point taken and thanks again.
@@thedurhamvlogger ...nipped back for a second look and just seen the banner , I was interrupted by a visit from our granddaughter while watching and obviously missed it as it's only there for a second or two. Now planning a visit knowing it's cod 👍
@@geebee6737 Enjoy
The only good chippy left here is in a museum, oh and one in Wednesbury that still in British hands, bring back beef dripping
Hi Ann thanks for your comments much appreciated and yes I agree bring back the beef dripping
Loads of chippies still use beef dripping.
@gabberman250 I need a list please 😂👍
This green colour comes straight from an atomic power plant
You could be right , I was tempted to put my sunglasses on , Thanks for commenting its appreciated .
Proper cod n chips , me sister was there last month said it’s a must to go .
Thanks Rose your sister is spot on and obviously loves quality fish and chips
How can it be just outside county Durham. ? Were your falsies clankin when u was chewin🤔
Hi Adam thanks for your comments , its not far from Durham centre just 11 minutes in a car
@@thedurhamvlogger Sorry pal, just being facetious. That's the city of Durham ,but Esh Winning is in county Durham.. Good Vlog mate.
No worries Adam have a great weekend
@@thedurhamvlogger You too pal & sorry for being a dick.😬
What a numpty whoever eats fish and chips from an old newspaper using cutlery
Ah thanks for your comments David but the actual fish and chips were wrapped in grease proof paper first and over wrapped in newspaper and this is the way it was in every chippie in days gone by , as for the cutlery my old hands cannot stand touching boiling hot food I guess I’m getting soft in my old age ,
Where is it. I have no sound on this video.
Hi Mick the sound is there so don’t know why you cannot hear but thanks for your comments much appreciated , it’s at Esh Winning County Durham
Can’t beat fish n chips… I live in Portugal originally from Tynemouth North East of England…nice video chap.
Thanks for your kind comments and had my first visit to Tynemouth visiting Stan Laurals home there in my Stan Laurel video , have a great weekend and thanks for watching .
I’ve not lived in the Uk for 20 years , 12 quid for fish n chips 😳
Thanks for your comments Paul and yes crazy prices , I’m going to Whitby and have been told it’s about £17 there so I’ll need to save up my pension…keep watching and thanks for your comments.
@@thedurhamvlogger used to love Whitby,,,, as an ex Darlington lad we were not too far away
Beef dripping fish and chips now your talking great blog 😂
Thanks for your comments Greg much appreciated
I see you went to Waterhouses to eat them. 😊
Thanks for your comments and I didn't think anyone would figure that out but what a nice area with and old wagon way running through .
@@thedurhamvlogger I was born and bred in Esh Winning and worked at Field’s when I was a kid carrying the dripping, potatoes and fish from the other side of the back street where they were stored but that’s all gone now.
I got paid ten pence a night plus free fish & chips.
Esh was a brilliant place to grow up in.
Thats brilliant , and beautiful countryside around there too . Thanks for your input much appreciated .
Thanks to Health & Safety, wrapping fish & chips in clean, unused newspaper was banned.
Newspaper was plentiful and almost a waste product so often a whole broadsheet newspaper was used so your fish & chips were still hot when you got them home, and it was perfect for soaking up any excess fat from the fried food.
Now we are no longer in Europe can we get back to using this ideal wrapping ???
Hi Graham thanks for you common sense comments and I totally agree with you .
I think the inks used would not be very good to leak into the food.
Hi Thanks for you comments The fish and chips were first wrapped in a greaseproof type paper first and the newspaper didn't come into contact with the product .
@@thedurhamvlogger Thanks for replying. I could see it was the modern stuff used today. I meant that the inks used on newspaper itself are not good f or us :) And next time in Durham will have to visit here.
Ah yes your right and I hope if you do visit that they areas nice as mine were , my only other preference would have been old fashioned style mush peas
Rate My Takeaway reviewed this 8 months ago.
Hi Philip i might be wrong but I think that one was at Upton Fisheries in Gainsborough , if im wrong can you send me the link as I would like to see Rate My Takeaway's version , Thanks for your comments much appreciated .
@@thedurhamvlogger sorry just checked you're correct
Do you want some fish with that vinegar.. 🙂✌🏻
Ah yeah well spotted , thanks for your comments
@@thedurhamvlogger looked really good mate
id love to watch this..but for some reason i have no sound ! weird as every other video is fine
Thanks for your comments Alan I have just checked and it plays fine so I cannot understand what's going on , hopefully it will work at some point for you and thanks for trying its appreciated .
@@thedurhamvlogger no bother i can already tell this is a great channel..subscribed !
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Thank you Irene
The peace are a very odd colour
Hi Dave thanks for your comments and your not the only one to notice that and the took me by surprise too but didn’t put me off the fish and chips
Get the camera closer!!!
Hi Martin thanks for your comments and I was gutted as my second camera had a error message and wouldn’t let me download the close up footage that I did take , I hope it didn’t spoil the video for you .
Look at the nose on that….
Explain to me the curry source and that green stuff. Why is it called fish and chips????
Thanks for your comments, the green stuff is mushy peas and the other curry sauce , some people up in Yorkshire prefer gravy instead and the fried fish is Cod with local potato chipped
@@thedurhamvlogger yet again why is called fish and chips???
@thedurhamvlogger As a born-and-bred Yorkshireman, I can state we don't claim anyone who prefers gravy on one of each. It's them funny folk on t'other side o' hill that seem to go for that.
@@rexochroy2 Because you are buying Fish with your Chips together and we have been doing so since 1850
Brilliant you made me chuckle and I was quoting a guy from Pickering ( does that count as Yorkshire ) , perhaps I should have done a bit of research instead of listing to him , Many thanks for your comments have a great weekend .
You can't eat fish like that it must be eaten with you fingers
I aint ever seen peas that colour before🤢
Hi Barry thanks for your comments and it’s a first for me , my wife was convinced I was glowing in the dark last night .
a man neaR me do egg platteR, 30 boiled eggs with 5 fRied and also plecetal balut egg. It is most delicious foR £30 u should tRy duRham
In fairness that looks like a shit portion of fish and chips, greasy and second rate. Avoid!
Thanks for your comments and each to there own some people love em some just don’t .
Looks totally overcooked....
Hi Frank thanks for your comments and that’s exactly what I thought when I saw the fish but tasting it told a different story , I don’t know if the beef dripping gave it the dark colour but it tasted lovely.
They always look like that but are absolutely delicious. They would have gone out of business years ago if the food was poor.
Its the beef dripping giving it that colour.
Thanks for that Julia much appreciated
So you are eating them in a middle of a field with a park bench in it???
It was a park just up the road from the chippie , it was either that or find a car park and stay in car and the park did look nice .
They must added dye to the 🫛
Hi John thanks for your comments and I’ve not seen peas that colour and I wondered why they were technicolour.
Beef driping will be gone soon it will be curry driping nothing english anymore soon 😂
Hi Dan thanks for commenting the way things are going price wise there will be no more chippies
Your sound is only coming through the left speaker
Hi Thanks for getting back its appreciated , I will check that out thanks .