Menu Prices AUThick Cut Chips, Hungry Jack’s Style
Hungry Jack's copycat · ⏱ 50 mins · Difficulty: Easy · Serves 4 · By Sophie Bernard
Thick-cut potatoes, parboiled then double-fried and seasoned. The real Thick Cut Chips are ≈ $3.45 (menu-page guide price — the ordering app never rendered, so kJ is marked ≈). Copycat method follows the standard thick-cut chip technique; Hungry Jack’s describes its chips as seasoned thick-cut, crisp outside and fluffy inside.
The Original
Thick Cut Chips
Price: ≈ $3.45 (pickup)
Energy: ≈ 2,250 kJ (538 cal)
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Ingredients
Home-kitchen amounts for 4 — standard home-cooking quantities for this dish, not the chain’s recipe (chains do not publish theirs). Difficulty: Easy.
- 1 kg floury potatoes (sebago or King Edward)
- Cold water, for soaking
- 1 tsp fine salt
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp onion powder
- Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
Method
- Peel the potatoes and cut into thick sticks about 1.5 cm wide. Soak in cold water 30 minutes, then drain.
- Parboil in salted water 5 minutes until just tender at the edges but still firm in the middle. Drain and steam-dry 5 minutes.
- First fry at 160°C for 5 minutes until pale and soft. Lift out and rest 10 minutes.
- Second fry at 190°C for 3–4 minutes until deep golden and crisp outside, fluffy inside.
- Toss at once with the salt, garlic powder, paprika and onion powder. Tip: the parboil is what makes thick-cut chips fluffy inside — skip it and the centres stay hard while the outsides burn — and cut them thick, or they are just regular chips.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How close is this to the real Thick Cut Chips?
This is a home-kitchen copycat, not the chain’s recipe — the chain does not publish its recipe. It is built to sit beside the original: the real Thick Cut Chips is ≈ $3.45 for pickup with ≈ 2,250 kJ (538 cal). Compare the two before you cook — the home version trades the chain’s equipment for a frypan and an oven.
How long does it take, and how hard is it?
About 50 minutes, rated Easy difficulty, serving 4.
What do I need to make it?
The ingredients are listed below — starting with 1 kg floury potatoes (sebago or King Edward), Cold water, for soaking, 1 tsp fine salt, and 4 more. Quantities are home-kitchen amounts, written to serve 4.
What does the original cost at Hungry Jack's?
The real Thick Cut Chips is ≈ $3.45 (pickup), ≈ 2,250 kJ. Prices vary by location and delivery is higher.
Where can I check the original dish?
On its own dish page — open the Thick Cut Chips at Hungry Jack's page for the price, kJ and calories.
Is this recipe the chain’s official recipe?
No — no Top 10 chain publishes its recipes. Every recipe on this site is a copycat written from the dish’s published description and the home-kitchen method below, and the comparison box shows the real dish’s price and kJ so you can judge it yourself.
Written & checked by Sophie Bernard
Sophie reads every menu directly from each chain’s official Australian ordering site and records the store and price basis on the page. No price is published without a source.