French Fries Recipe

Tasty.

Well If scoochmaroo plagerized Emeril then he plagerized me, I was making french fries that way before Emeril Lagasse was in three cornered pants. I make my fries now-a-days by boiling the potatoes for about 5 min in salted water, drain put in the fridge till dead cold, chip then fry, crisp on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. Unofficial instructable.

Hm, that's funny, my other comment accusing scoochmaroo of plagiarizing Emeril's recipe is gone. Why would that be moderators? Please, tell me why you would pull my comment and not this unattributed and blatantly plagiarized instructable? Does copyright mean nothing to you?

the British put "MALT VINEGAR" on their frys er chips, its a nice change but I am a Heinz catsup man.....

awesome pics !  and tasty food!

I just washed them, I didnt feel like waiting I'm hungry

 Heres what I do I take a few potatoes scrub em down good. dice them up wash em again and put em in the frier for 5-7 minutes.

i usualy do them in a deep frier at 350 degrees

Hmmmm, can't wait to try it! What does the soaking/refrigerate in ice-water do? And what is better 30mins or 2 days soak?

bgmiller:  about the starch, if you try this out, you'll actually see it happening.  I used to work in a restaurant which made around 800lbs (weight of the potatoes, not the finished product) of everyday by almost exactly this recipe.

We'd soak the potatoes whole for an hour or so and then slice them into fries and put them in new water where they'd rest for about 3 hours in a cool cellar.  After they were done here, we'd take them up to our big ol' sinks and rinse them off for a good 5 minutes.  Even in the last step, you can see the starch foaming in the water!

Aside from the soak/cut/soak/rinse method we used, the only major difference was that we only used suet (beef fat) for frying, and the old guys who had been running the place since they were teenagers insisted that the fries be cool before they were fried a second time.

Our fries were good enough to be rated best in the city for something like 10 years in a row by the readers of our local entertainment magazine.  People line up around the block, killing off their whole lunch hours to get at these things, even in the dead of winter!

Good job, schoochmaroo!

i love crunchy almost concrete fries. will try this sometime, bookmarked! 5*

Refrigerate at least 30 minutes and up to 2 days. i dont get this part

You should try oven baking them...Its probably healthier because it has less fat/grease/oil...and they end up almost perfect...you heat up the oven to like 340 degrees and you put them on a cookie sheet(metal) and they are good... Good i'ble, rated.

i havent tried the refrigerating and soaking thing....will give it a try soon!!...

French Fries are bad realy bad the fries from belgium ar way much better

Just read Cook's Illustrated's article on cooking French fries starting with cold oil. I'm definitely going try the cold oil technique. Looks a lot easier and the fries absorbed less oil!

http://tiny.pl/37r8

you have big potatoes i have small ones

Why do you need to refridgerate the fries before cooking?

Hey, what should I let them rest on? Is it like bacon how you have to put something between it and the plate or can I just set them on a plate?

Just looking @ the pictures makes my mouth water :P im going to try this now

Peanut oil is the best. This must be emphasized.:)

Here in Belgium you can find these "French" fries on every corner of the street :d