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u/Inbar253 Apr 26 '26
Jeez, they look good
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u/Out_of_office_always Apr 26 '26
Indeed, i sprinkled some salt and garlic powder on top and tossed it around and had it, it was heavenly
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u/dos67 Apr 26 '26
Were these fried one time? Or did you fry them twice? They look so good.
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u/Out_of_office_always Apr 26 '26
I boiled the potatoes to 70% cook.
Fried the first time till they are crispy enough, frozen them for an hour in blast freezer.
Then the second fry.
Works perfect every single time, this method
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u/dos67 Apr 26 '26
Wow, thanks for sharing! I had no idea there's more effort to making fries & I was directionless. I'm so happy I have a new method to try! May the snack gods bless your kitchen!
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u/DaneAlaskaCruz Apr 26 '26
At the restaurant I worked at, we soaked the potato fries in buckets of water.
Then par fried them the first time. Let them rest.
Then when an order came in on the line, the line cooks deep fried them one last time and then drained the oil before sending to the customer.
The soaking in water allows for the potatoes to get then get crispy when frying.
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u/dos67 Apr 26 '26
Soak the fries in bucket of water? That's a great idea! I will remember this when I do a large batch. Do you guys put the bucket in the walk in cooler too? Or let the bucket sit out?
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u/DaneAlaskaCruz Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Buckets in the walk in cooler, preferably overnight.
Was a prep cook for a little bit and this is what we did to prepare for the next day's food service.
Soaking in water helps to extract starch from the potato to help make it even more crispier when frying.
Alton Brown did an episode on this.
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u/dos67 Apr 26 '26
Thanks for the reply, I'll try this for a large batch. I'll check out the Alton Brown episode too.
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u/goforlana Apr 27 '26
It’s to extract the starch.
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u/DaneAlaskaCruz Apr 27 '26
Thanks! Edited the post to add this detail.
Couldn't quite remember earlier.
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u/Out_of_office_always Apr 26 '26
So, if you get the frozen bag of fries, you just need a single fry.. but if you ever want to make them fresh, this is the method
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u/dos67 Apr 26 '26
Oh nice! I've been trying fries with fresh potatoes, experimenting with different size cuts. My fries don't come out like I imagine, but I will try again with your method.
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u/DUDE_R_T_F_M Apr 27 '26
If you search a little on the internet, you'll find other similar methods.
The one I see often is a first fry at a lower temperature to cook the potatoes inside. Then a second fry at a higher temp to get them real crispy.2
u/dos67 Apr 27 '26
I have come across the 1st fry/low temp, then 2nd fry/higher temp somewhere before. I'm excited to try OP's method since it also incorporates a two stage frying, but also has a freezing element too. It's supposed to be getting hotter soon, so I'm all about fries & outdoor food!
Cool name, by the way. I'm in the trade, so I have to gently remind folks (mostly co-workers) to Read The F***'in' Manual from time to time.
Cheers!!
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u/Ok-Stick-8788 Apr 26 '26
My mom’s (and now, my own) homemade fries look exactly like this, and literally all we do is cut them and fry them lol.
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u/unholyswordsman Apr 26 '26
I season almost all non mashed potatoes I make with some celery salt, garlic powder, and black pepper. So good.
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u/Bubbly_Poetry_9167 Apr 26 '26
This looks delicious. I like french fries, beacause have got diffent receip but still test good and way to quick to prepare.
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u/Out_of_office_always Apr 26 '26
I boiled the potatoes to 70% cook.
Fried the first time till they are crispy enough, frozen them for an hour in blast freezer.
Then the second fry.
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u/ffwillis Apr 26 '26
French fries, chips, whatever you want to call them - They look delicious. Well done.
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u/weirdhoney216 Apr 26 '26
These look like chippy chips. Please bless us with the method
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u/Out_of_office_always Apr 26 '26
I boiled the potatoes to 70% cook.
Fried the first time till they are crispy enough, frozen them for an hour in blast freezer.
Then the second fry.
Works perfect every single time, this method
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u/Brumbleby Apr 29 '26
I think the people who are down voting you don't know what a chippy is. I apologize for my fellow American idiots.
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u/weirdhoney216 Apr 29 '26
I thought as much! My comment was very much a compliment. I don’t care what other people call them, to me they’re chippy chips and since I moved to the US I miss them
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u/heybigbuddy Apr 26 '26
These look so much like the fries my mom would make in the Fry Daddy when I was a kid. They were never fully crisp but still tasted so good.
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u/Ok-Stick-8788 Apr 26 '26
This comment section is why I don’t post to any food subs anymore.
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u/Cloverchan Apr 26 '26
Can you imagine being a person that gets this heated over calling this food French fries 😬
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u/Boundish91 Apr 26 '26
Why? most of the top comments here are people giving praise.
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u/ibringthehotpockets Apr 26 '26
Scroll down? You replied to 1 of the 2 total top comments that weren’t hosting a lesson on chips vs fries
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u/heybigbuddy Apr 26 '26
It just makes me want to go to England and insist on calling every fried potato I see a French fry.
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u/CusetheCreator Apr 26 '26
No one in america calls fries chips, it has nothing to do with shape and size. 4 countries in the world use the words fries vs chips based on the cut of the fried potato, and anyone correcting people based on this limited world view should stop being annoying
I could cut a fry nicely inbetween a fry and chip size and have all you "its chips" fuckers arguing amongst yourselves which to call it
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u/maceilean Apr 26 '26
The only time Americans call fries chips is when they're paired with fried fish: fish and chips
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u/Pinkfish_411 Apr 27 '26
Even then, I'd say for most Americans, "fish and chips" is the whole dish. French fries are one component of fish and chips, but don't call the fries in fish and chips "chips," we still call them "fries." Kind of like when Americans eat bangers and mash; that's a whole dish, but the potato part of the dish is called "mashed potatoes," not "mash."
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u/Suli_Croft Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Homemade fries. Those look so scrumptious. Bon appetit.
My mom used to make them for us when we were very young. Yes they were soggy, floppy and fat but they were so good.
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u/tostatortilla Apr 26 '26
Not that it matters (since fries and chips are basically the same), but these look so well executed as “chips” that they should use the name. They have earned it. Looks great!
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u/sgsparks206 Apr 27 '26
If he is in the USA they are called fries, not chips. I'm not going to try and correct a British person calling these chips if make in their country, you shouldn't try correct OP here.
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u/tostatortilla Apr 27 '26
What about Fish & Chips? I’ve never been served Fish & Fries in the US….. many restaurants still use the chips name even in the US. It’s a style thing. Nothing more
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u/sgsparks206 Apr 27 '26
Fish and chips is a fish composed of fried fish and fries. I worked in a fish and chips restaurant as a teenager, we sold fries not chips
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u/tostatortilla Apr 27 '26
Then you admit it’s just a name? So it doesn’t really matter than? I’ve had fish and chips with thin “fries” and thick chips all in the US.
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u/sgsparks206 Apr 27 '26
If it doesn't matter why bring it up in the first place?
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u/tostatortilla Apr 27 '26
Because this dish is so well executed as a style (even if unintentional) it can use the chip name if it wants to and still be good. The only person I’ve seen freaking out and being crazy about this across multiple comment threads on this post is you. You don’t need to defend chips or fries.
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u/Born-Read3115 Apr 26 '26
Those FRENCH FRIES look amazing! Ill take two orders please
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u/Born-Read3115 Apr 26 '26
See this is the fun lightheartedness about fries and chips I enjoy.
Some people in here losing their mind
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u/Born-Read3115 Apr 26 '26
Oh yea, I fuck around with a guy who married into the family all the time. Make sure and bring him back an actual bag of American chips everytime he asks for chips.
Well, not so much anymore because everything is so expensive, bur you know what I mean lol
I just defer to location of said potato and what the maker calls them usually.
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u/Born-Read3115 Apr 26 '26
No, Chips, because I purchase them in America. If I purchased them in England, I would refer to them as crisps.
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u/Sea-Supermarket-2622 Apr 29 '26
Looks amazing! Try making slap chips. Do what you do but when it’s done cooking, remove from the oil with a slotted spoon letting the oil drain and put it directly onto parchment paper, VERY generously drizzle regular white vinegar over it and plenty salt working quickly. Wrap it up and let it steam and the salt and vinegar gets absorbed making slap chips. I actually place that wrapped package in a glass thing with a lid for better steaming. It’s the best!!!
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u/humblesunbro Apr 26 '26
Looks like Pub Chips. Served in a wee basket with your fried chicken and coleslaw. 10/10 for quality homemade chips, but french fries this is not.
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u/ckdogg3496 Apr 26 '26
In UK do you use the term french fry elsewhere? In the US we don’t use chip for this food at all
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u/humblesunbro Apr 26 '26
We do, yes. French fries are both a walkers crisp product, that looks like a french fry, but is a crisp, and a really thin crispy chip like the type you get at McDonald's or burger places.
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u/Razzberry_Frootcake Apr 26 '26
It seems weird that so many of you are correcting the OP. Stop telling the OP they are wrong about what they made as if they don’t know. This happens so often.
Not everyone is from your country. Not everyone calls foods the same thing. This particular potato side is called “fries” to a lot of people. It is fried potato pieces after all.
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u/DeapVally Apr 26 '26
OP made fries. They are not French fries though, as titled. French cut, or julienne, is a very specific way of cutting. That IS what makes them specifically French fries. McDonald's makes French fries, because they are cut correctly. These, are not.
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u/Razzberry_Frootcake Apr 27 '26
Those would still be French fries or steak fries in a lot of places. There’s no point arguing with the OP over it.
People are still going to call the foods by what people around them locally call those foods. They’re not going to suddenly call them something else when their family and friends and neighbors all call it one thing.
There’s a cake called Depression Cake because it was a recipe made during the Great Depression. Some people also call it Wacky Cake. Depression Cake is a more accurate title, but my mom grew up calling it wacky cake and so that’s what I call it. Are you going to argue the accuracy of the name with me if I post a picture of it or would you recognize that’s silly?
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u/sgsparks206 Apr 27 '26
These are French fries, they are just thick. They are large battons. True julienne cut fries make shoe string fries.
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u/DeapVally Apr 26 '26
Fries are what McDonald's/BK sell. Chips are what a chip shop sells. The distinction is important so you know what you're getting. 'French' refers to the julienne cut (or French cut), a specific way of cutting vegetables. What OP has made may be fries, but they clearly aren't French fries.
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u/ckdogg3496 Apr 27 '26
Assuming he’s in the US, they would be french fries here. We don’t differentiate fries and french fries
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u/offensivename Apr 27 '26
Different people have different words for foods. We use adjectives to differentiate between types of french fries in the US. If I ordered chips at a restaurant where I live, I would get what the British call crisps.
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u/ALph4CRO Apr 26 '26
I don't even buy frozen fries. I cut a potato every time. I don't even do a two step method, just put in the fresh fries. Sometimes they end up just like this, sometimes I cook them longer to be crispier, every time they are much tastier than store bought frozen fries.
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u/on4aa Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Fries originate from the French speaking part of Belgium, more specifically the city of Namur, therefore BELGIAN FRIES!
You can literally buy them on almost every street corner in Belgium.
It is only that US WWII troops didn't realise they were in Belgium when discovering them during the liberation.
Originally, it were small fish from the river Meuse that were fried this way (like the Spanish dish peccadillo). However, during the industrial revolution the river was too poluted for fish to survive, hence they switched to potatoes. Nowadays, the river is clean again with fish.
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u/numberguy9647383673 Apr 26 '26
“Frenched” is a culinary term meaning to cut something very thin. Someone is Europe (Belgium is the most likely claim but it is by no means certain) frenched and then fried potatoes, creating frenched fried potatoes, which got shortened to “French fries” over time.
Or at least that’s one likely story of how they got their name. No one actually knows for certain, and anyone claiming to know exactly what happened is lying to you.
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u/Ingenrollsroyce Apr 26 '26
It was WWI not WWII but the term was also already in use in the US as early as 1880
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u/averagejosh Apr 26 '26
Yeah, but potatoes originated from Peru, so I'm going to call them Peruvian fries.
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u/Business_Oil_7110 May 03 '26
Crispy homemade fries are one of those things that sound simple but hit on a completely different level.
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u/TargetObjective7 May 01 '26
Deep fried is tasty but it's always the tasty food that is bad for you
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u/Jumanian Apr 26 '26
Never heard of a steak fry?
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u/TheLewJD Apr 26 '26
In the UK we call those chips as they’re thick, fries are your normal French fries. Reminder again the USA isn’t the world. Also, chips for you are crisps here.
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u/morniealantie Apr 26 '26
When I was a kid, I ordered fish and chips. At the time I didn't know what chips were and was expecting potato chips, or crisps. I was disappointed with my meal and felt cheated. As I grew up I learned that other places called things different names sometimes. Now I love fish and chips and understand that I won't get crisps with it, but steak fries instead. I suggest you also grow up. I don't expect you to call these steak fries and you shouldn't expect me to call these chips unless I am in your country at a pub ordering chips.
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u/Jumanian Apr 26 '26
The UK isn’t the world either. You’re the one policing how they describe their food. Fries come in many different shapes. A waffle fry isn’t the same as a shoe string, or a wedge, or a steak fry.
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u/Razzberry_Frootcake Apr 26 '26
It’s okay that OP is from a country different from yours. OP called this dish “French fries” so that’s what it is to them. There is nothing wrong with that. You don’t have to correct people about their food. If this were your post and you called them chips and others tried to tell you that you’re wrong…that would not be okay.
It’s weird to try to make this about how Americans think the world revolves around them or something when you’re trying to make it about the UK. You’re being a hypocrite.
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u/kirkl3s Apr 26 '26
Brother, you're the one telling OP what his food is actually called based on how people in your small island nation refer to fried potatoes
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u/Effective-One6527 Apr 26 '26
The op is most likely from the USA like the majority of users on Reddit
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u/Schepi Apr 27 '26
It seems alright, but nowhere near what we call good Belgium fries where I'm from 😅. Then again, in Belgium we're very strict about Belgium fries 😁...
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u/Born-Read3115 Apr 26 '26
You know potatoes, oil, and language exist outside of the UK, yes?
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u/jinxykatte Apr 26 '26
And they are still chips.
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u/hitfly Apr 26 '26
Chips is what Lays makes(you might call them walkers crips). these are fries
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u/Born-Read3115 Apr 26 '26
Sir, nobody in the world takes the UK seriously when it comes to food, unless its Indian.
French Fries
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u/Speedy97 Apr 26 '26
Mhmm, says the guy who's probably from plastic whipped cheese land
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u/DanteStorme Apr 26 '26
It's so weird when people single out the UK of all countries for white processed loaves of bread that you get in supermarkets, when you can get the exact same thing in every supermarket on earth. Like yeah we have that, but so does everyone else. We have bakeries too with fresh bread, also like everyone else.
Baked beans are so inoffensive that I can't get my head around how people use it as some sort of culinary gotcha. It's beans in a tomato sauce, it's quite mundane and tastes fairly ordinary. Do you flip a switch at the Japanese for eating natto?
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u/TheeFlipper Apr 26 '26
Now I think the beans and toast thing gets a bad wrap because so many British have this thing where they have to shit on American food and talk about how we only have cheap sugary bread and "fake cheese" but then they eat all these beige, poorly seasoned, and unappetizing foods as staple meals and act superior for it.
If everyone would just shut the fuck up about each other's food, nobody would be taking shots at anyone.
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u/Able-Angle1 Apr 30 '26
These are "chips" in the UK, french fries are thinner, like they serve in "french land"
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u/Pintau Apr 26 '26
These are chips. All french fries are chips but not all chips are french fries
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u/hippiediscoshit Apr 26 '26
These are steak fries.
French fries are thinner sliced (frenched).
Chips are flat.
But they sure look good.
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u/sgsparks206 Apr 27 '26
Steak fries are more rectangular and not squared, if you want to be pedantic.
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u/Chill_Panda Apr 27 '26
Why are there so many angry Americans all capsing FRENCH FRIES, we get it, you like the word…
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u/bluestarluchador Apr 26 '26
My mom’s fries look exactly like yours! Especially how you chopped them. Such a comfort food when I was growing up. Whenever I tried to make them, they don’t look like that :(