Bestseller Judge Vista 22cm Chip Pan – Review
This 22cm Chip pan from the Judge Vista range is made from 18/10 stainless steel and has a vented glass lid to allow you to monitor your cooking. With cool knobs and handles in a black Phenolic finish, this is a versatile and attractive chip pan.
List Price: £35.05
Chip Pan,
Bought this after reading the all the reviews. Being fed up with cardboard supermarket chips of all kinds, it was wonderful to taste a homemade chip again like I recall as a child. Its large enough to cope with for a family of four hungry diners. This chip pan itself is strong and sturdy and very well made and matches our other Judge cookwear. One slight critisism or rather comment, is that the hook on the internal wire mesh basket holding the chips could have been made a little sturdier. The hook on the side holds the chips out of the hot fat to drain alright, but it bows a bit under pressure of the weight when cooking a lot.
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|Chip pan basket,
Good pan but basket not too clever. The pan itself is of a good quality. Indeed it cooks nice crispy chips. Unfortunately, perhaps because the pan itself is of a large size. Is that the frying basket handle bends with the weight of the food that is being fried. Needs a sturdier handle.
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|Basket is rubbish, lid is useless.,
I needed this because I have a new induction hob.
The pan itself is OK, however it distorts when lifted with just the main handle (with fat in the pan).
The basket design is the worst I have ever encountered. To shake the chips you need to lift the basket out of its handle slots (in the pan. not the lid as is usual). Each time you lift it loads of chips fall though the basket to get trapped under the basket when it is replaced. These then burn on the bottom of the pan.
Resting the basket of chips on the rest is a little unstable, and the basket tips a little.
When you lift the basket out of the pan, you cannot shake the fat off, as doing so throws chips out of the side of the basket and all over your hob, as well as dropping another load back into the fat through the bottom. Utter rubbish. I have cross wired the basket with stainless wire, to create a proper basket.
The lid is glass, and cannot be used whilst the chips are cooking. This lets fat splatter all over the place. I have always used a lid when cooking chips, and have been fortunate in finding an old lid to use with this pan.
If you don’t need a large pan suitable for induction, then I suggest you look elsewhere. My old aluminium chip pan is still on sale in a local shop (with fantastic tight-weave basket) for £10.
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