This Is By Far The Best Way To Reheat Chips To Keep Them Crispy

Picture the scene: you’ve ordered yourself a McDonald’s and you guzzled your Big Mac/McChicken Sandwich/Filet-O-Fish down so fast, you now don’t have room for all your fries. I mean, I find the idea of having any chips left over absolutely unbelievable myself, but I get it – some people aren’t as greedy as yours truly…

So, when it comes to eating those leftover chips, how are you going to heat them up? I bet you’re planning on microwaving them, aren’t you? Well don’t.

If you microwave your chips, they’ll end up soggy and super-unappealing. The best way to reheat chips to make sure they stay lovely and crispy, is to do it in your oven.

How to reheat chips

Firstly, you want to pre-heat your oven to as hot as it will go. Most ovens go to 250 °c, so that’s ideal.

Now spread your chips across a baking tray in a single layer – overlapping the fries is a no-no as you want the heat to hit every single millimetre of the chip for optimum crisping up. There’s no need to add any oil at this point as your chips will already have oil on them from when they were originally cooked.

Now place them in the oven for around 3 – 5 minutes. Seriously, that’s all it takes: a quick blast in a super-hot oven for a few minutes.

Once the chips come out of the oven, you may fancy giving them a sprinkle of salt, but that’s about all there is to it.

Simple stuff, right?

How to reheat pizza

So, now you know how to reheat chips. But how about we tell you best way of reheating pizza too?

Domino’s has shared a genius hack for reheating it so it doesn’t go soggy. Because, if you do it in the oven it takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Plus, those crusts could break your teeth. And if you microwave it without doing it the right way, it can end up all soggy and limp, and no one wants that.

According to Domino’s Australia, if you put a slice of pizza in the microwave for 30 seconds with a glass of water, it will come out hot and crispy.

The glass of water will stop the pizza drying out as when the water heats up in the microwave, it turns into steam.

Smart, eh?

How to get super-fresh fries from McDonald's

And seeing as you're here, and you clearly take your chips very seriously, have you tried this hack for getting super-fresh fries at McDonald's?

Johnny, who runs Instagram account @cakemail, shared a hack a while back that is so simple, we wonder why we haven’t been doing this the whole time.

He says that if you order fries from McDonald’s and ask for them without salt on, they will be cooked fresh as all the fries that are ready to go will have salt on them already. Simple, yet very effective, right?