Hi, I'm Becky Striepe from Glue & Glitter
and today we are going to make frozen French fries
in the air fryer.
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I have a video on how to cook just general frozen food
in your air fryer but I get a lot of questions
about specifically how to do frozen French fries
so I thought I'd put together a video
to show you exactly how I do it.
When you're making frozen fries in the air fryer,
it's very important that you adhere
to two simple dos and don'ts.
Let's start with the do.
You do wanna shake.
Shaking your air fryer is critical
pretty much any time you're cooking anything.
When you shake, what you're doing
is moving the food that's in the outside of the basket
to the middle and from the middle to the outside.
An air fryer works by using hot circulating air
to cook your food and so shaking allows that hot air
to blast everything pretty much evenly.
That'll give you the most even crispy results.
The important don't to keep in mind
is don't overfill your basket.
Usually, with an air fryer basket,
if it doesn't have a fill mark on it,
you won't wanna fill it more than halfway.
Filling it more than halfway
is going to impede that hot air from circulating properly
and you just won't get evenly cooked food
even if you shake it a lot.
That's actually why I recommend
when you're cooking a little bit more food
in your air fryer that you shake more often.
Less food will have more surface area exposed to the hot air
even without shaking so the more food you have in there,
the more often you'll wanna shake.
All right, y'all, let's make some French fries.
So we'll start by pouring our fries
right into the air fryer basket
and these are frozen crinkle cut fries
but this same method will work with waffle fries,
steak fries, traditional cut French fries,
pretty much anything.
We could just put these right into the air fryer
and start cooking but I thought it would be fun
to do a seasoned fry.
You can use the seasonings that I'm gonna use
or if you want, you can choose your own seasoning adventure.
Italian seasoning would work great in this.
You could do seasoned salt
for sort of a traditional seasoned fry.
I'm gonna do a chili garlic fry
so I'm gonna start with some garlic powder
and not even measuring here.
Just gonna sprinkle it right on.
Ooh.
These are gonna be real garlicky
and then some chili powder
and this chili powder doesn't have,
and this chili powder doesn't have a shaky top.
Maybe I'll do this so I can get it nice and even.
That's good.
So now it's time to put the basket into the air fryer
and get cooking.
Oop, it's not plugged in.
Once you have the air fryer basket in
and your air fryer's actually plugged into the wall,
it's time to get cooking.
So we're gonna set this to 400 for 10 minutes
and because it's not a ton of fries that I'm making,
I'm just gonna shake it once after five minutes.
If you're doing more
like if I had done the whole bag of fries,
probably I would do maybe two shakes, maybe even three.
I'd rather shake an extra time and have evenly cooked fries
than skip the shake and have some fries in the middle
that are mushy or undercooked.
All right, so let's set the time and temp.
And that's it.
I'll see you in 10 minutes so we can find out
how these air fryer French fries turned out.
And cooking time is up.
Let's see how those fries turned out.
Oop, I made a big mess, didn't I?
And that's it.
Everything that you need to know
to make perfect air fryer French fries.
I hope that this video has answered all of the questions
you have about making French fries in your air fryer.
If you do have a question that this video didn't address,
feel free to drop it in the comments.
I'm always happy to help
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Happy cooking.
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