Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's Kitchen. Today we're making
McDonald style french fries. Now I've made them before on my channel
but I've had a lot of questions and it was a little bit long-winded and complicated
I'm going to simplify it well simplify it
if you follow this recipe you need your head testing because it
is a long-winded method but it's the only one that produces
real good quality McDonald french fries. I've seen a lot of recipes out there where they are
all limp
and bent and the beauty of the Mcdonalds fry is that it
stays crisp from the point of cooking to the point of servicing
and all throughout the eat so I'm going to show you how to make those French fries
It truly is the only way
but like I say there are better ways to make french fries
and if you stay tuned to the channel very shortly I'll be making my steak
cut fries
which are absolutely delicious too so let's get on
make these fries
Now firstly we want to cut our fries up I've got some peeled potatoes here
and you can either do it like I am here with a knife, there's a tool called
a mandolin which has these little teeth and that cuts them perfectly
like that and also in an earlier video I used the
food processor which can do them super quickly. Now when you've finish cutting your
potato you should have a whole bunch of these wonderful quarter-inch
french fries. Now I've got a big bowl of them down here
you might as well do a lot seeing as you're going to the trouble and I'm using
russet potatoes for these but check with your local green grocers and see what
are the best
chipping potatoes in your area. Now these next stages are very important
I've got a couple of quarts or two liters of water in a large saucepan
I'm adding two tablespoons of salt into there
and 2 tablespoons of white vinegar any white vinegar will do
and next we're going to our take french fries
pop them into this water and then we're going to move that pot onto a high heat
and bring it up to a boil, then we're going to simmer it for five minutes
now if we didn't have the salt and the vinegar in the water they would boil to
a mash and we don't want that and also what they're doing is drawing out the
natural starches
which is going to give us the wonderful golden brown color that we need
for the McDonald french fry. Now when the fries come up to a boil we'll turn those
down to a simmer
pop the timer down, five minutes no longer than that
and then we'll take them off the heat right that's my alarm going off now I'm just
bringing them
over to the sink I've got a colander in the sink and I'm pouring away that hot
water
so we've just drained the hot water off of there now
you can see those fries they're still solid,they're piping hot
now the next thing I need to do I've got a baking tray here and a clean
kitchen towel I'm bringing those fries over to there now and I'm just going to pour
them on there
this is just to help them completely dry off before I fry them so you can
probably still see the steam coming off there and now we need to get our
oil on now whether use a fryer like I am or whether you use a pan with some oil in
it you want to bring that
oil up to at least one ninety degrees Celsius that's 370
fahrenheit and this is going to be a very quick fry
so my oil is up to temperature now and I'm going to fry these
no longer than 60 seconds let's just drop them in there
you want a timer on because sixty seconds from now we taking these out
okay they've been in 60 seconds now so we just want to pop those
straight on to our plate, now I've got another tray over here that I've put paper towels onto
I'm going to pop those french fries out onto there and we want them to cool down
completely
I'll get on and do the rest of these. So now all of those fries have been done for one
minute
now why did we fry them and only for one minute well basically what we've done is
we've sealed the outside of that french fry and we've
coated it in a beautiful little coating of oil which will protect it
so it can be frozen for at least two or three months no problem at all
now why have we frozen it, basically we need little ice crystals to mash the inside
of the potato otherwise we'll have a fudgy interior
and they won't get that lovely light crispy McDonald french fry
so they have to be frozen so I've popped those fries
now into a zip lock bag like that I'm going to pop them into the freezer and when
they're frozen
I'll show you them fried
now with the wonders of
time travel or what I like to call the stop button on the front of that video
camera
I've got my batch of fries here now they're nice and frozen we're going to take a batch of
these out
and pop them into the fryer I've got my fryer back up to 190 degrees Celsius
370 fahrenheit I'm going to fry those for a little under three minutes
until they're just perfect and I'm going to share them with you, so we're just going to
drop those in there now
so we're going to bring those out now and we'regoing to let those
drain, So I'll bring my fries over here now and I'm going to pour them
into a little bowl with a bit of paper in there just to absorb some of the oil
there you can see
they actually smell just like McDonalds fries I'm going to salt those up a little bit
give them a shake, now will you look at these
they look just like and smell
just like Mcdonalds french fries and now I've put them into my own
personalized Steve's Kitchen french fry holder
and like I say you can hear they're nice and crispy, come down here look I've got my
tomato sauce in a pot, one of my french fries in there
here goes they
are so close to the real thing as I said to you before
if you're crazy enough to follow this recipe then you must be a die-hard
McDonald fan. I'm going to be doing some Steak cut chips
or fries very shortly so join me for that please share the love give this one a
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I hope you've enjoyed it be good I'll see you next time
So I've got the packaging, I've got the fries so shall I set up my own chain of shops I don't think so
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