French Fries

Name: French Fries
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 lb russet potatoes; 3 qt cold water; 2 qt peanut oil; 1 tsp fine sea salt

👥 4 servings

🗣️ English (detected)

category: Fried & Crispy

counters: Diner, Meat and Three

aka: fries, chips, steak fries, pommes frites, hot chips, french fried potatoes

pairs-with: homemade-ketchup

slack: narrow — the thirty minutes of resting between the two fries is the crust; skip it and you have one soft fry and one greasy one

washing-up: the frying pot, a bowl to soak the potatoes in, a rack to rest them on

step: salt them the second they come out

#potatoes #fried #side #double fry #stovetop

🥘 Ingredients

1

Cut russet potatoes and 30 min in cold water , until the water goes cloudy and then clear.
2

Blanch @&( timer , dried hard on a towel, in peanut oil held at 325°F (165°C) 6 min , until limp, pale and cooked through with no colour at all.
3

Rest @&( timer in one layer on a rack 30 min , to room temperature or colder.
4

Fry @&( timer again at 375°F (190°C) 3 min , in batches small enough that the oil does not drop below 350°F, until deep gold and audibly hard.
5

Salt @&( timer with fine sea salt the second they leave the oil, while the surface is still wet enough to hold it.