I finally perfected homemade french fries!

[Katrina]

Today was an historic day in that I finally got homemade french fries made correctly! In the past I don't even remember the last time I tried to fry them, tbh. But I used a deep pot, got out my candy thermometer to make sure that the temp was correct, I had my cut fries sitting in a big bowl of cold water for an hour, then blotted them a lot to get the dry. But here's something I had never done before...I sprinkled cornstarch on them! Wow. They crisped up so nicely ?



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[PGen98]

Wow, that sounds absolutely delicious! Homemade french fries with cornstarch for that perfect crisp? I’d love to try them and see how they stack up against the McDonald’s fries that I love so much. I mean, McDonald’s has set the gold standard for fry perfection in my book, but who knows? Your creation might just dethrone them. Either way, it sounds like a fry-tastic achievement!