French fries are often served with fish inEngland.
French fries,chips,finger chips,French-fried potatoes, or simplyfries, arepotatoes, cut, anddeep fried. They are prepared by cutting potatoes into even strips, drying them, and frying them. They are usually fried in adeep fryer. During the process of making, they are pre-cut, blanched, and frozenrusset potatoes are often used to make them. French fries can also be baked in a oven.
French fries are served hot, either soft or crispy, and are generally eaten for lunch, dinner, or as a snack. They commonly appear on the menus ofdiners,fast food restaurants, pubs, and bars.
People often put salt on them, and sometimes dip them inketchup,vinegar,mayonnaise,tomato sauce, or other condiments. French fries are sometimes topped withpoutine and/orchili con carne. French fries are sometimes made from sweet potatoes, instead of potatoes. When baked in a oven, little oil or no oil, is used.
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French fries are often fried in adeep fryer, which submerges them in hot fat. They are may be cooked in oil, instead.Vacuum fryers make French fries have not as much oil, but mostly work on the French fries' color and texture, instead.
The potatoes are prepared by first cutting them into even strips. They do not have to be peeled. The strips are either removed from the plate or put in cold water to remove the starch outside of the strips. Once they are taken out from the cold water, they are dried. Then they can be fried in the two-stage or two-bath technique. Most chefs think that the two-bath technique, will make them fried better. Potatoes that are taken fresh out of the ground, may have too much water which makes the French fries soft and wet. Most people choose potatoes that have not been used for a while.
