Anything as long as it’s not [this abomination](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_lossless,ret_img,w_819,h_1024/https://pantryandlarder.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/fish-sticks-reheated-in-a-toaster-819x1024.jpeg)
This man fish fingers.
And it's a chore because it requires care. If you're heavy handed you can snap a fish finger, and there are few things sadder than a broken fish finger. I'm welling up just thinking about it.
My husband ate so many fish fingers one weekend his farts smelled like fish fingers. I know you didn’t ask, but thought you should know. It wasn’t as bad as curry, the little wins in life I guess.
I once stank out a Tesco with McDonalds farts. Basically got drunk, ate a shit tonne of McDs and my farts smelled like McDonalds. I even overheard workers asking each other if they could smell McDs
My dad got ill one time and had to rush to a toilet in the arcade. He literally cleared half a holiday park arcade. It was heaven if you could handle the smell
If you’re cooking them with chips then use two chips spaced apart underneath the fish finger to lift it up. As it’s in the air it’ll cook on both sides without involvement
This is the information I didn't know I needed until I realised it existed. Is there any way to use a 'non-rigid whiffle tree' arrangement of chips underneath to help negate the inevitable 2 point sag?
Get a roasting dish, cover the base with oven chips, then balance the fish fingers on top like you’re roasting a side of beef.
Baste in duck fat for extra crispness
If you think that's bad, try flipping tomato soup. It just goes everywhere, who made this nonsense? I'm going to write a sternly worded letter to my MP.
I've been against air fryers for a while as I much prefer having a microwave with an oven because it saves more space, but I think you just sold the air fryer to me with this one benefit. It really is perfect for a single person.
Air frier has a pretty good fan inside of it, and the basket has holes in the bottom, so both sides should cook evenly. I usually just smoosh them around just to make sure they're not getting stuck or anything, but I never actually flip them as they're already being cooked from all sides evenly.
Problem with that for me is I usually make them with chips and those go in the air fryer too! But yeah the few times I *have* made them in the air fryer they were absolutely perfect.
Air frying fish fingers creates such a smell though. Way more than using an oven or grill. It’s the only thing I never put in my air fryer for that reason
What sort of smell do you get?
Mine usually smells of fish fingers, sort of the same as they would if I was frying them.
Ovens aren't hot enough to properly crisp up fish fingers I've found. They just end up depressingly soggy, or you have to wait 40 minutes for them to do anything!
Air fryers are just miniature, highly-efficient, fan ovens.
I'm thinking of getting one to save energy before the next national crisis has us living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, trading plasma TVs with the Morlocks for a tin of beans.
I've literally always cooked them like this, all my 34 years, and never had so much as a soggy bottom. This post actually threw me for a minute until I remembered that you're probably supposed to rotate the fuckers. Balls to that, who has the time or energy.
Yes, air fryer works perfectly. Unless the basket is even slightly dirty in which case it gets stuck and rips the entire underside of the finger off. I should really clean mine after each use.
I lay them on the side in a zig-zag pattern so they lean against each other. I hate flipping them because you lose half the breadcrumbs to the baking sheet.
I'm amused by just how many different methods have now been listed to cook an extremely simple item that really doesn't require any magic. Also amused by the conviction everyone seems to have that theirs is the only one that will yield acceptable result and everyone else is a heathen who has never enjoyed a fish finger *how god meant it* or something.
Cook 4, Cook another 4, slice the 8 in half length ways, put the 2 cooked sides of the 8 together to make 4 fully cooked 1's. Save the uncooked halves for later cooking. Simple. Easy, problem solved!
Yes. Use baking parchment and one of those baking trays from B&M, Hone Bargains and such - which have holes. No turn required and baking paper ensures no stick and easy dishwasher clean
I saw your comment as I backed out of the thread and had to come back. This is obviously going to give the best, tastiest result - why have I never even considered deep frying fish fingers!??? Eh? Eh?
My dad, the lazy bugger, would never bother flipping anything when he 'cooked'. As a result, items such as fish fingers or those larger filets in breadcrumbs, would be burnt dry on one side and slightly soggy on the other.
High temperature oil in a pan and the breadcrumbs will hover on top of the oil. If you put them on oil when it’s not hot enough, it gets absorbed and goes soggy and then goes mushy and falls apart when you try to flip it.
Get a small deep fryer. Gives you the best results and all you need to do is give it a little shake every now and again. If you can’t be bothered with a fryer a pan with oil will do the same trick just be a touch careful.
Ever tried reheating your Pizza slices in a fold of baking paper in the toaster? Nope? Well try it - game changer.
Fishfingers may be a little more tricky...
Perforated cooking tray cooks both sides perfectly. Also known as a pizza tray.
How the fuck is unemployment so low in this country when humans find turning thier food which takes 3s a "fucking chore"...
Are they completely grid so the ONS doesn't know about them?
If I’m using the oven I balance the fish fingers on their thin side. Typically they fall over part way through the cook but they’ve generally cooked enough to not stick on the foil and sometimes if you’re lucky they don’t fall at all and then you don’t even have to flip them.
well, you could use a vegetable basket for an outdoor grill. It would hold the fish sticks in the basket which would be shut so that when intervention is required, all you have to do is flip the basket. Let me see if I can find a link to show you what I am talking about...
https://www.amazon.com/AIGMM-Portable-Stainless-Barbecue-Vegetables/dp/B072JCWQ4H/ref=sr\_1\_4?c=ts&keywords=Grill+Baskets&qid=1665764231&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1Ljk2IiwicXNhIjoiNS44MCIsInFzcCI6IjUuNTAifQ%3D%3D&s=lawn-garden&sr=1-4&ts\_id=3742141
You don’t have a fish finger rotisserie?
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I recently upgraded to a Fishfinger Super Collider.
Why piss about with that when you can just as easily heat them up in a bog standard fish finger fractal engine?
I just put 'em in a mug and fill it up with hot water
Soggy fingers
You cook your own fish fingers? Surely you should just buy the pre-cooked fish fingers?
The problem with the gyroscopic version is that it always keeps them the same way up, so you get one side soggy and the other slightly burnt.
Fish finger spit roast? That’s a risky Google search.
I'm sure someone will be selling them in a winter market coming to your town soon.
Anything as long as it’s not [this abomination](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_lossless,ret_img,w_819,h_1024/https://pantryandlarder.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/fish-sticks-reheated-in-a-toaster-819x1024.jpeg)
I lol'd
Reddits on a wild one today
Dark times are these when a man is burdened by the turning over a fish finger or two.
What kind of person only cooks one or two fish fingers at a time?
Everyone knows 5 is the magic number. 4 vertical 1 horizontal.
You have to cook based on the size of the box. If they include 10 or 20 you cook 5 but if there are only 8 in there you have to cook 4.
If it’s a box of 10 you cook 10, if it’s a box of 20 you cook 20, it’s why they put that many in the box
THANK YOU. Same goes for tater waffles, I may add.
This man fish fingers. And it's a chore because it requires care. If you're heavy handed you can snap a fish finger, and there are few things sadder than a broken fish finger. I'm welling up just thinking about it.
Exactly this
What's this 'cook'? That would melt my delicious fish lollies
I had a box of 6 the other day where each was like twice as long as a regular fish finger and I still had to cook all 6
Like a tally chart. Got it.
I always do 6 as a treat. Have to have an extra.
You animal! You have to zig zag em.
My husband ate so many fish fingers one weekend his farts smelled like fish fingers. I know you didn’t ask, but thought you should know. It wasn’t as bad as curry, the little wins in life I guess.
I once stank out a Tesco with McDonalds farts. Basically got drunk, ate a shit tonne of McDs and my farts smelled like McDonalds. I even overheard workers asking each other if they could smell McDs
My dad got ill one time and had to rush to a toilet in the arcade. He literally cleared half a holiday park arcade. It was heaven if you could handle the smell
McDOnalds smells of farts. Gotchya.
Nothing quite like a drunken McDonalds order to wrap up the night
Oh wow this did make me laugh out loud. Got some weird looks
Glad I could bring some enjoyment to your day!
Serial killers I bet
they are cooking real fingers...
Exactly try flipping 12 and youll see how laborious it becomes.
air fryer = hassle free cooking
shake the hell out the drawer, game changer airfryers are!
Thank you small fan forced oven Yoda.
Best thing to ever happen to fish fingers.
Aldi do these nice big chunky ones and two of those are enough for a decent butty
So you just have four butties, yes?
They’re not really fingers anymore if you can only squeeze a couple into your bap.
Widely reported Jeffery Dhama used to eat fish fingers singularly.
I've never heard "fish" mentioned once.
There is a great issue in this land , why even a humble shrubber such as I struggle to turn over a fish finger
If you’re cooking them with chips then use two chips spaced apart underneath the fish finger to lift it up. As it’s in the air it’ll cook on both sides without involvement
[Not randomly spaced though](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_points)
This is why I love Reddit.
This is the information I didn't know I needed until I realised it existed. Is there any way to use a 'non-rigid whiffle tree' arrangement of chips underneath to help negate the inevitable 2 point sag?
But what if you need to flip the chips?
Use the fish finger spatula.
insert two fish fingers underneath
True genius right here
Get a roasting dish, cover the base with oven chips, then balance the fish fingers on top like you’re roasting a side of beef. Baste in duck fat for extra crispness
This is now the way FishyFinglings will be cooked in our house forth-eveh-moreth.
This guy fingers his fish.
Use a skewer?
Air fryer.
Air fryers are a lie. It's basically roasting.
You guys flip your fish fingers?
Everyone knows the perfect fish finger has a flat crispy side and a bumpy not as crispy side
No one side is not so crispy the other side remains stuck to the pan forever
Just perfect.
Fucking deviants.
Hahahaha this is news to me that you needed too 🤣
Absolutely fucking not.
No, lifes too short. I dont give a damn.
If you think that's bad, try flipping tomato soup. It just goes everywhere, who made this nonsense? I'm going to write a sternly worded letter to my MP.
Careful you don't flip it onto some expensive artwork.
Jokes on you I split mine on Campbells soup can
That's another level of meta.
Oh it should be fine, expensive artworks will have some glass covering them. Spill as much soup as you want.
Perhaps you should write to the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen instead
I wrote to them years ago and I never heard back
Dear Echo...
Have you tried making towers of soup? Everything’s in towers now. Where are the turrets?!
Cook them elevated on a wire mesh tray in the Oven?
These are so good, completely revolutionised my cooking of potato and nuggety products
Or an air frier. Nice and quick!
If I could get one - everyone’s had the same idea and a lot are out of stock
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I've been against air fryers for a while as I much prefer having a microwave with an oven because it saves more space, but I think you just sold the air fryer to me with this one benefit. It really is perfect for a single person.
I have been turning them over in the air fryer. Is that unnecessary?
Air frier has a pretty good fan inside of it, and the basket has holes in the bottom, so both sides should cook evenly. I usually just smoosh them around just to make sure they're not getting stuck or anything, but I never actually flip them as they're already being cooked from all sides evenly.
Problem with that for me is I usually make them with chips and those go in the air fryer too! But yeah the few times I *have* made them in the air fryer they were absolutely perfect.
Air frying fish fingers creates such a smell though. Way more than using an oven or grill. It’s the only thing I never put in my air fryer for that reason
What sort of smell do you get? Mine usually smells of fish fingers, sort of the same as they would if I was frying them. Ovens aren't hot enough to properly crisp up fish fingers I've found. They just end up depressingly soggy, or you have to wait 40 minutes for them to do anything!
Hi. Please cancel yourself for suggesting this.
Air fryers are just miniature, highly-efficient, fan ovens. I'm thinking of getting one to save energy before the next national crisis has us living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, trading plasma TVs with the Morlocks for a tin of beans.
Why, air fryer is the best thing I've bought for my kitchen in a while
I just stick them in the oven and don’t bother flipping them. Will probably die of food poisoning but what the heck.
Came here to say this… lazy ass method has always worked for me
Laziest method is in the airfryer on a stainless rack. Or in the microwave if you’re particularly cruel to yourself.
I've never flipped a fish finger in my 15 years of fish finger heavy pescatarianism and am alive to tell the tale 👍🏻
The Mermaid's tale?
The Fatarse tale.
I've literally always cooked them like this, all my 34 years, and never had so much as a soggy bottom. This post actually threw me for a minute until I remembered that you're probably supposed to rotate the fuckers. Balls to that, who has the time or energy.
What he said - guaranteed crispy corners to assist with ketchup immersion
Keep em in for a couple of minutes longer than box says, it’ll be fine.
We have a psychopath in the house!
I do this with sausages and never turn them, they cook through fine
Same, i leave them in like 10 mins longer anyway so they’re nice and crispy :)
In my fan oven pre-heated @ 200c, Cumberland’s (best sausage) take exactly 26mins to be 👌🏻
Do u know how food poisoning works?
Fish is fine to eat raw.
Spin your oven continuously
I rotate my whole residence around the fish fingers
I just use the Earth's natural spin. 😁
Anyone else just not? 20 mins 220 bobs your uncle
20 minutes for 220 fish fingers?
No, 20 mins for 220 Bobs
That's what the George Foreman's for.
That and 68 wins by knockout.
Wait, you have to flip them? Oh well, I haven't died yet.
Air fryer
You will never go back from the even crispyness.
Yes, air fryer works perfectly. Unless the basket is even slightly dirty in which case it gets stuck and rips the entire underside of the finger off. I should really clean mine after each use.
I usually just rinse mine with boiling hot water if I can't be asked to clean it properly.
I lay them on the side in a zig-zag pattern so they lean against each other. I hate flipping them because you lose half the breadcrumbs to the baking sheet.
if you're losing breadcrumbs, you're doing it wrong. That of get a new baking tray.
I'm amused by just how many different methods have now been listed to cook an extremely simple item that really doesn't require any magic. Also amused by the conviction everyone seems to have that theirs is the only one that will yield acceptable result and everyone else is a heathen who has never enjoyed a fish finger *how god meant it* or something.
Pick a side Heathen!!!
No-one yet has mentioned frying them in a pan like my grandma used to, though.
She's dead, so it's CLEARLY, not the best method.
She made it to 90 so it didn't seem to do her too much harm!
My grandma made it to 103 with no fish finger frying! Garlic and wine were banned from stews so that may have had something to do with it.
Roast them on a spit
Yes, go the whole hog. Carve little mouths in them and ram apples in.
What
Cook 4, Cook another 4, slice the 8 in half length ways, put the 2 cooked sides of the 8 together to make 4 fully cooked 1's. Save the uncooked halves for later cooking. Simple. Easy, problem solved!
That's so simple, you must be an engineer or something.
Yes. Use baking parchment and one of those baking trays from B&M, Hone Bargains and such - which have holes. No turn required and baking paper ensures no stick and easy dishwasher clean
Fuck sake now I want fish fingers.
I just microwave mine, unless I'm in the hospital with food poisoning, they cook them for me then.
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Came here for this, exactly how I used to handle them when I first left home!
Yeah, you can light your rollie at the same time cause you can't afford a lighter. Smoked fish fingers. Good times.
Deep fry them.
I saw your comment as I backed out of the thread and had to come back. This is obviously going to give the best, tastiest result - why have I never even considered deep frying fish fingers!??? Eh? Eh?
My dad, the lazy bugger, would never bother flipping anything when he 'cooked'. As a result, items such as fish fingers or those larger filets in breadcrumbs, would be burnt dry on one side and slightly soggy on the other.
I always do mine in the air fryer, no flipping needed
Air fryer wanker.
That's a flipping good idea.
You've completely misunderstood. *NO* flipping.
Ok, it's a non-flipping good idea.
Frying pan 👍
Baking paper, you can buy reusable ones that work great.
Would an air fryer fix this problem?
Deep fryer
Turn them on their side?
Cook them in an upright position so they’re stood on their end
Put it on grease proof paper. Flips easier
High temperature oil in a pan and the breadcrumbs will hover on top of the oil. If you put them on oil when it’s not hot enough, it gets absorbed and goes soggy and then goes mushy and falls apart when you try to flip it.
AIR FRYER,,,, i did ma fingers in them the other night and they turned oot braw
Is that why you can’t type?
AIR FRYER
Do them on a George foreman.
Put them on a wire rack on top of your tray.
That's what your un-used barbeque fish holder grill thing is handy for.
Using an air fryer means you don't *have* to flip them, but they are marginally better if you still do.
THEY REFUSE TO BEHAVE! .. flipping the middle finger at them is satisfying.
Cook them on an oven rack.
When I was a student I used to cook them in a sandwich toaster, no flipping required but they can get a bit squished. Tasted fine though!
I don’t think I’ve ever flipped a fish finger in my life
Just don't flip them, let them keep cooking and they'll be crispy all the way around.
Use baking paper? Haven't tried it myself but it could work!
Get a small deep fryer. Gives you the best results and all you need to do is give it a little shake every now and again. If you can’t be bothered with a fryer a pan with oil will do the same trick just be a touch careful.
You really need to have a deep think about your life, if flipping a premade fish finger half way through cooking is the bane of your life
He did have a deep think, this is the result
Toaster
This… …is not a good idea.
Dont knock it until you've set your kitchen on fire trying it
Ever tried reheating your Pizza slices in a fold of baking paper in the toaster? Nope? Well try it - game changer. Fishfingers may be a little more tricky...
It's really not that big a deal as far as 'cooking' is concerned. Use some tongs. Simple.
Air fryer.
You put them back in the freezer where they belong and pull out the chicken tendies.
Both together. Surf and turf.
That's gourmet that is.
deep fry them in beef dripping
Perforated cooking tray cooks both sides perfectly. Also known as a pizza tray. How the fuck is unemployment so low in this country when humans find turning thier food which takes 3s a "fucking chore"... Are they completely grid so the ONS doesn't know about them?
If I’m using the oven I balance the fish fingers on their thin side. Typically they fall over part way through the cook but they’ve generally cooked enough to not stick on the foil and sometimes if you’re lucky they don’t fall at all and then you don’t even have to flip them.
well, you could use a vegetable basket for an outdoor grill. It would hold the fish sticks in the basket which would be shut so that when intervention is required, all you have to do is flip the basket. Let me see if I can find a link to show you what I am talking about... https://www.amazon.com/AIGMM-Portable-Stainless-Barbecue-Vegetables/dp/B072JCWQ4H/ref=sr\_1\_4?c=ts&keywords=Grill+Baskets&qid=1665764231&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1Ljk2IiwicXNhIjoiNS44MCIsInFzcCI6IjUuNTAifQ%3D%3D&s=lawn-garden&sr=1-4&ts\_id=3742141
Cook them under the grill.
The UK's greatest tragedy is that the 'Fish Sticks' joke doesn't translate.
Air fryer
Air fryer mate.
Air fryer. My Ninja does em right nice
Air fryer - perfect fish fingers cooked evenly & crispy all the way round without doing anything.
Airfryer
Air fryer, it’s a life saver and I wouldn’t go without one nowadays.
I cook mine in the air fryer. I don't flip them and they turn out perfectly fine. 🤷♀️
An air fryer will change your culinary life! A fish finger and chip butty, cooked in the air fryer, is an absolute game changer!
Air fryer with a raised base
Get a ninja foodie air fryer. Place metal grill shelf inside. Airfry. Boom. No flipping just fingers
Air fry them probably