We like it when you fail. These guys have such a good time.
You failed to agitate. You failed to cook on low long enough for the interiors to cook completely, to nearly disappear, and to begin to puff even at low temperature.
This video shows the process explicitly but it's shot at an angle and the cook's accent is unintelligible. "You gonna need two pots of oil, one gonna be 136 inches, this one 375 Fahrenheit. I repeat. This one 136 inches, this one 385 Fahrenheit."
When he says, "bubbles begin to form" he means a large interior bubble, not thousands of external bubbles in the oil as moisture dissipates.
The evenly thick-cut potatoes are par-boiled in oil. Somewhere around 300℉, 280-320, but under 350. Then fried hotter at 350℉ or above, 360-375.
The Europeans say 2-3mm, but that is not right, 3 mm is 1/10 an inch, they're cut up between 1/4 and 3/8 inch thick.
This video shows a young man agitating a pot dangerously and filled too near the top but without spilling any oil then he uses a pan to lift out even hotter oil to spill on top of his floating potatoes causing them to puff instantly.
This guy in the video below makes a mess of his stove.
This guy in the video below makes a mess of his stove.
Julia Child also does this with a degree of trepidation and uncertainty but now I cannot find the video I watched last night. My YouTube history is incomplete.
Bonus! Chef John celebrates his 500th video with something interesting but useless. He shows how to carve a potato ball inside a potato box. He does not show what to do with it. I was hoping he would fry it.
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Make your potato a video game.
potaotes? You've entered Dan Quayle territory there buddy.
That guy should make a Rubik's potato.
I've occasionally made a puffed up fried potato, but not deliberately. I sliced the spud on a mandoline, the fry looked like a flying saucer.
This is a good recipe for Italian potato balls.
Thanks for the correction. Dyslexia is a bitch.
*high squeaky ventriloquist voice* What dyslexia?
Shut up. That dyslexia.
I was watching an RT video at Youtube about the TransSiberian railroad and the conductor's wife fills several bags with potatoes, carrots and a couple of other veggies for him to take on the 14 day! round trip from Moscow to Vladivostok to Moscow. It seemed very sensible to me. Something that would never be done in America America.
Cabbages. She also filled bags of cabbages for him to take.
No potato vodka?
ric, I know a young man who is a raw vegan. His carry on when he flies is always a box of fruit. His personality is such that he is not insufferable. He's Type 1 diabetic and this has helped him control his blood sugar.
An old cold war joke.
An American and Russian general are having conversations comparing various details of army life.
When the talk turns to diet the American says his servicemen are on a 2000 calorie a day diet.
The Russian sneers " Nonsense! No one can eat that many potatos and cabbages a day."
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