Our fries were good enough to be rated best in the city for something like 10 years in a row by the readers of our local entertainment magazine.Hot and fresh homemade Chick’n Adobo flavored potato chips are a fun twist on Filipino chick’n adobo and a classic snack! Plus, better than anything you’ll get at the grocery store, and they’re so fun to make! You’ll never want to buy chips again! Even in the last step, you can see the starch foaming in the water! Aside from the soak/cut/soak/rinse method we used, the only major difference was that we only used suet (beef fat) for frying, and the old guys who had been running the place since they were teenagers insisted that the fries be cool before they were fried a second time.

After they were done here, we'd take them up to our big ol' sinks and rinse them off for a good 5 minutes. We'd soak the potatoes whole for an hour or so and then slice them into fries and put them in new water where they'd rest for about 3 hours in a cool cellar. I used to work in a restaurant which made around 800lbs (weight of the potatoes, not the finished product) of everyday by almost exactly this recipe. (From: )īgmiller: about the starch, if you try this out, you'll actually see it happening. This recipe was tested both ways (with and without soaking the cut potatoes in ice water) and the soaked potatoes were lighter and fluffier on the inside and crispier on the outside. Consequently, the outside will be crispy and the inside soft and moist. It is more likely that the inside of the chilled potato takes longer to cook. There may be some slight change in the moisture content of the potato, however.

The starch on the outside edges of the cut potatoes may wash away, but significant starch or nutrients are not likely to be changed. The rationale is that some of the starch is leached away and helps the texture of the potato, but this simply doesn't make any sense. Here is some more info: Potatoes and Ice Water Many recipes for French Fries (as well as other potato recipes) recommend soaking the potatoes in cold water for thirty minutes.

Soaking them in water also helps removes some of the starch which also helps them crisp better (Supposedly).

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