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Chip Butty

A sandwich made with chips, bread, butter, and optional ketchup or brown sauce.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,145 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Prepare

  1. Ensure the chips are not too greasy and have been well drained.

Assemble the sandwich

  1. Take two slices of bread (the heel works best) and butter one side of each slice, then apply ketchup and spread evenly over the buttered side.

  2. Add chips in a herringbone pattern, minimizing gaps; add multiple layers if desired.

  3. Put the two slices together, press the sandwich on a flat surface, and slap it hard several times with an open hand to crush the filling.

  4. Eat immediately.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + ketchuptop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together813 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + ketchuptop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chips
Provide the hot, starchy filling that gives the sandwich its bulk and texture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps keep the bread from soaking up moisture from the chips.
Sliced white bread
Forms the soft outer structure that holds the filling together.

The step that matters

Drain the chips well. Excess oil on the chips soaks into the bread and makes the sandwich soggy and greasy, so draining them first keeps the bread intact.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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