The tastiest wedges in the world! (Iceland Southern Fried Wedges)

Member Name: aylawarner

Product:	Iceland Southern Fried Wedges
Date:	15/07/09 (86 review reads)
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Advantages: Yummy, yum, yum

Disadvantages: None

We live on frozen food in my house as neither my husband nor I are great cooks. But, whether or not you eat a lot of frozen food, Iceland's Southern Fried Wedges should be a constant in your freezer as they are in mine. These are potato wedges in a southern style coating and they are the tastiest potatoes I have ever had in my life!

They come in a dark blue plastic bag with the Iceland logo along the side and a big picture of the cooked wedges looking very golden and delicious. Across the centre of the bag is a yellow stripe and the bold letters announcing BIG VALUE PACK £1. Iceland tend to have this on most of their products just to encourage you to notice and buy their food even more as they are such great value. You may have noticed that the packaging I've described is different to that pictured on dooyoo, but seeing as the first review was written on these in 2005, it's pretty obvious that the packaging is going to have changed since then.

The bag's size is 1kg and inside the bag is filled up with wedges right to the top. I'm not sure exactly how many meals the bag provides for but there are a lot in there and I'd say maybe it would do up to 10 meals, depending on how many you eat in one go.

They can be cooked either in the oven on gas mark 7 or 220 degrees C, which takes 18-20 minutes, or they can be deep fried which only takes 3-4 minutes. I've only ever oven cooked them as there's usually other food items in the oven that I'm doing at the same time so I can't say which produces the best results but I would have thought the oven as it turns them slightly crispy. Depending on how you like your frozen potatoes cooked, these often take only about 15 minutes before they are soft and plump and ready to eat but I tend to leave them in for a little longer so that they crisp up. When cooked, they are a deep golden brown colour and the smell is just gorgeous with a spicy scent which reminds me of sweet chilli sauce. Actually, even when they are frozen and first taken out of the pack, they have this scent but it's even stronger when cooked and the lovely smell wafts around my house and ends up making me even hungrier before they have even finished cooking.

Each wedge is a sort of crescent shape - long and straight on one side and curved on the other. The curved outer edge has a crisper layer similar to that of a potato skin but, for those who don't like potato skins, it doesn't taste anything like it, it just looks similar with the darker colouring, but it is simply a little crisper. The rest of the outer part of the wedges is a little less crispy and the inside is full of soft, white potato. The coating is the best part about the wedges as this is what provides the excellent southern fried flavour. I'm not really sure how to describe a southern flavour apart from to say that they are a little spicy and tangy. Undercooked or overcooked these are still delicious either way.

The wedges contain 86% potato and the southern fried flavour comes from spices, garlic powder and onion powder. For every 100g that is oven baked, the wedges contain 178 calories and 7.8g of fat.

Since having these a few years ago I've become addicted to southern fried wedges and I've also tried McCain's and Asda's wedges but none compare to Iceland's. The McCain ones are actually pretty horrible which is surprising for such a popular food brand but I refuse to buy any other brand of these now apart from Iceland. To be quite honest though, the price is so good for these at one ridiculous pound that there's no point in splashing out on the McCain ones which cost almost double the amount when Iceland's ones are sooooo much nicer!

Ooh sitting here writing this review with the pack open next to me is making me want some from the smell! Well I know what I'm having for dinner now!

Summary: My favourite frozen potatoes