How to hold a battered Mars bar in a deep fryer without leaving any chocolate exposed

The trick is to chill the Mars bar in a fridge for a few hours before cooking.

Prepare a batter mix (the kind you deep fry fish in) and get your oil heated to temperature. Here's a batter recipe I've used before:

Basic Fish Batter (Delia Smith Online)

(You can't fault Delia!)

You can use sparkling water to introduce more bubbles into the batter which gives it a nice texture.

Remove the Mars Bar from the fridge and immediately coat in the batter and cook in the oil right away. Cook until the batter is golden and serve with a scoop of ice-cream.

You can also do this with Snickers bars. It's also worth trying with miniature Mars and Snickers bars.

As a Scotsman I must apologise for inflicting this culinary delight on the rest of the world :)

I want a car that can fly. :P

I say you have two options:

• A quality dutch oven . This can do it all, although steaming might be difficult unless you can find a steamer insert for your dutch oven. It's certainly the closest you're gonna get to a slow cooker.

• A quality stock pot with a steamer insert (or two). I have a great 12 qt stock pot with 2 steamer inserts. I deep fry in it often, the high sides contain spatter. The only thing it doesn't do well is slow cook.