What's the best way to make homemade fries? My buddy deep fried them in peanut oil in a sauce pan once, and that seems to me to be the closest thing to deep frying but everything online says to cook them in a skillet in vegetable oil. Is the deep fry method not safe on a stovetop?
shareThe correct way to fry has to do with the oil temp.
I used to do this Belgian method where you put the potatoes in cold oil then heat it up to the right temp. It might be something like 120, but look it up. You then boil them until they get soft and form a still white shell around them.
Then you take the fries out of the oil.
You increase the temp to like 160, then put the fries back in the now much hotter oil. That forms a crispy shell around the potatoes.
The whole Idea is that you cook the potatoes until they are soft and very lightly fried, then blast them in hot oil so they are crispy. You then get fires that are nice and soft inside but crunchy on the outside.
Other types of cooking overcooks the inside making everything too crispy.
My post isn't about cooking fries but you triggered (triggered, lol) a memory of deep frying so allow me to regale you:
As a teenager, one day I was driving past the back of the county hospital and saw, apparently, a family helping a large man into a car. He was covered in bandages and despite, I'm sure, being well dosed with pain medication was in obvious agony.
Over the next couple of days I learned the story behind it.
"Regale" is an interesting word, don't you think? "I so seldom have the opportunity to use it in a sentence". - The Bride -
He and his wife/girlfriend were having a heated argument in the kitchen and he shoved her against the stove and slapped her. She grabbed the closest thing at hand and hit him back.
With the deep cast iron skillet full of boiling oil she had been using to cook their supper. It was full of french fries!
Omg. Had to have been horrible!
shareI've had road rash which is essentially the same kind of injury and pain, but it was comparably very limited. This guy looked to have sustained damage to maybe a third of his total surface area. I'm using technical jargon because thinking about it is almost painful.
And considering the date, early '80s, and the advances made in that field since then I'm certain the resulting scars were monstrous.
Who is Movie Bluff.. Tell me. I'm confused.
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