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Does it matter if you don't preheat the oven for frozen French fries?
For fairly forgiving things like french fries, I've never found it makes a difference. Typically I turn the oven on, get the chips (which is what we call them here) out of the freezer, and the baking ...
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What are the advantages of serving fries in a metal cone?
In a traditional British chip shop, you would have got your chips (fries for Americans) in yesterday's newspaper, wrapped into a cone shape. These days of course, it's food grade greaseproof paper, ...
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Does it matter if you don't preheat the oven for frozen French fries?
The primary reason that instructions on the packaging almost always tell you to pre-heat is that different ovens heat up differently, so both to the people who write the instructions, and those ...
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How are Belgian fries different than the average French fries found in North America?
All of the sources I read say the same thing... what makes them different is that they're fried twice.
From Saveur:
Frites are the supercharged cousin to paltry American-style fries: made from ...
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Baked sweet potato french fries (chips) too soft, how to crispen?
You can try a few things:
dredge the fries in cornstarch (whack them in a plastic bag, give it a good shake), shake off the excess, then season.
ensure the fries are in a single layer in the pan - ...
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How to make Frozen french fries
Here, check this out. This is an article explaining at length how to make perfect French fries.
How to make perfect McDonald's style French Fries
So basically, you have to cut your fries so that ...
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What should I do if I forgot to dry fries before baking?
Bake them anyway and accept that they might not be quite as good as they would otherwise be. A little extra moisture won't be fatal, and there's nothing you can easily do now. You could try patting ...
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Low-calorie French Fries
Isn't the oil (and bad oil temperature), the main reason for calories in fried food, not the vegetables themselves?
Just coating in corn starch will not help at all, the moisture in the vegetable ...
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Small baskets for fries
They just look like gimmick frying basket used for serving.
When you fry things, you need to have "space" in the fryer to have a good consistent frying so that you have as much surface of the ...
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What makes fries "oven fries"?
They have additional ingredients which make the fries more crispy than they would otherwise be -- often this involves cornstarch. For example, America's test kitchen has a popular recipe where you ...
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When making french fries, can I precut them before baking or frying them?
Regarding potatoes, not sweet potatoes:
It's actually great to precut potatoes for French fries, it gives you an opportunity to soak them in water, which removes the starch and simple sugars from the ...
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Baked sweet potato french fries (chips) too soft, how to crispen?
There are a few questions on this site about French fries, I'd suggest you take a look. But I think the best answer is: baked sticks of potato do not French fries make. French fries are deep fried. ...
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What is the type of cheese in "chips and cheese" UK fast-food? (with photos)
Its more than likely what they call 'Pizza Cheese' which is a mix of mozzarella and mild chedder.
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What are the advantages of serving fries in a metal cone?
The paper cone is a traditional single serve package shape for street vendors, so you can walk away with your chips (fries), and eat while walking. Many street vendors set up shop near parks and ...
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Can you mix raw chicken and French fries dip them in the same flour batter?
As long as you are cooking both, as you suggest in your question, there is no danger. Any potential hazard will not survive the heat of cooking.
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What is the type of cheese in "chips and cheese" UK fast-food? (with photos)
The majority of fast food take-away restaurants buy their grated cheese in bulk from suppliers. The majority of the cheese is a 70%/30% mix of mozzarella and cheddar. I know because I've worked in the ...
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What are good counter-top oven settings to reheat french fries soggy from refrigerating overnight?
They won't be as good as when fresh (of course) but generally:
You want the oven pretty hot. How hot depends on the oven, size of fry, etc., but a good first guess would be 425°F–450°F. On most ...
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How do I make french fries that are crispy inside and out?
I rarely bother to deep fry fries. I buy them precut, blanched and frozen in the supermarket and bake them in the oven. If I bake them as intended, they are fluffy on the inside. If I forget them in ...
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Does double-frying French Fries in an air fryer make it crispier?
I tried out the following procedures with Air Fried french fries and concluded that the best way to make them is to cut, wash and air-fry.
Note: Any kind of "frying" here refers to air-frying. Also, ...
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What to prepare first, the fries or the burger? How to serve everything crispy and warm?
My instinct is that you should have everything cook at the same time. Cut all veggies and make sure fries are pre cooked so the second frying is for exterior crispness. You should be able to drop ...
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How are Belgian fries different than the average French fries found in North America?
Yes, the oil can be a major difference. Many Belgian fries were cooked in horse fat, or a combination of horse & beef fat.
Although most American fries are cooked in vegetable oils, McDonalds ...
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standard way to make crispy sweet potato fries?
Freezing fries opens up their texture and makes them more fluffy. This is helpful for regular fries or sweet potato fries.
Sweet potatoes have too much sugar and not enough starch to crisp up on ...
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How can I make sweet potato fries soggy?
the reason you haven't found any recipes for soggy sweet potato fries is because of one simple fact: soggy is the default state for oven fries, unless you do something to specifically make the crispy.
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Can you make fries with coconut oil?
Use the refined coconut oil. And not only for temperature reasons...
I admit to not liking the taste of coconut in many cases... but I particularly don't want my french fries tasting like them. That ...
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Did I do anything wong when making fries?
I haven't noticed regular potatoes being sweet when overcooked, undercooked, or even raw. So I don't think the sweetness was due to cooking time.
However, according to
http://www.finecooking.com/...
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Forgot to add salt to french fries while soaking it in hot water
Any salt added during the soaking step won’t make your fries significantly salty, during blancing the potatoes will precook and absorb some water and if salted, some salt (a 3% brine is suggested here)...
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Does it matter if you don't preheat the oven for frozen French fries?
Bacteria, the main reason why we want to keep our frozen foods frozen, can double in volume in just 20 minutes in an environment between 40°F - 140°F (5°C - 60°C). As such, the theory is that you don'...
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Triple cooked chips: Removing moisture by cooling
The matter here is much more complex than simple "drying out". Starch physics is complicated stuff, and I don't know it in all details, but here is the rough picture.
Starch starts out in tiny ...
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Triple cooked chips: Removing moisture by cooling
There are a lot of things going on to change the starches in the potatoes besides drying too; see rumtscho's answer for more on that. However, the drying matters as well, and these are indeed good ...
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Crispy sweet potato (yam) fries in a deep fryer?
I would also cut down on the "Full Basket" to lessen the Oil Temp Recovery. Try just a few handfuls at a time to keep the temp above 325'F. Frying time per batch should only be between 1 - 2 minutes.
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