Make Perfect McDonald's French Fries at Home!

Hello everyone, hunter, fisherman, trapper, trainer, guide, explorer and performer, and just country cook Steve Hall here in Nashville, Tennessee, along with the nice miss Sheila manning that camera there. Hello, today we are going to

make

McDonald's

fries

at

home

and all the recipes that I have seen that have complications and I will explain to you why the size, the texture and how you prepare them. Come here, let's start now. If you've ever tried to use one of these things, they come with two different grilles. too big, the others are a little smaller, but you can't fit things in, but it's still too big for McDonald's

fries

and let me explain, this is what I ended up with every time I used any type of potato

make

r large fries. huge thick fries like that and even the smallest ones are this big from here to the smallest ones.

Great, now let me show you something: these are McDonald's fries. Sheila just brought them from the store. Look how small those fries are. small and some of them are really nice and long and the way they get them is McDonald's actually takes real potatoes, they don't make them with pressed mashed potatoes, they take real potatoes and they put them through a water tube that is It shoots like 60 miles per hour. hour water cannon and shoot them through a Dicer and make them this small and I've come to the conclusion that the only way to make them is to cut them up yourself and I'll show you what I do and look what I do.

I have small fries that look like McDonald's fries and how I got them. I'll show you exactly what I made now just for this recipe. I bought four of these potatoes at the store. I cut them like this, three so far and here are even a couple of small slices from one and I don't waste anything. I'm saving all the pieces because they're going to fry like potatoes for dinner tonight, but let me show you what I do: I cut off the end caps. Out of these, but I try to keep them as long as possible because I want a nice long potato, then these guys go in my little bowl to fry up later here because I don't waste anything.

Now let's square them. cut one side to get a flat side and then turn it to that flat side, you have another flat, turn it to that side and do it on all four sides, no, it's okay if you leave a little skin in the corners and stuff, because then They become like they taste like Wendy's fries, which I love now. I'm not going to waste this. The skin is good nutrition, it is delicious. Fry it up, so I'm going to cut them up here and then I'm going to put them in my fry up. tonight for the dinner bowl, now I figure out which way the thinner side is and I lay it flat so it's wider than it is tall and then I make my cut so it's as thick as a McDonald's fry, very small, Now this takes a couple of minutes longer instead of running them through a V-slicer and all that, but then the V-slicers come out with huge, fat fries and it just doesn't work well, it doesn't have the same texture, it doesn't produce the same flavor. . of those things and I think I can maybe get three more out of this little piece here and always cut away from your hand, of course, be very careful and split the difference.

It's beautiful and there we have our little flats, now it's very easy when you put it like this and you just put your fingers sideways, you can cut the

perfect

McDonald's fry every time and usually when you get here the last one is just divide the difference, look at that pretty one, long and small, like McDonald's. fries, they don't all have to be

perfect

because they're not and let me cut the rest and I'll come back to you to see, it seems to work perfect every time I made each fries. He finished the same thing and that's the last one there and look what we have a big bowl of exactly McDonald's fries.

Now it may take me a couple more minutes, but it only took me five minutes to make the four potatoes and that's simple. Now what we're going to do now is I have a bowl of ice water, very cold water and this is the first process to make these McDonald's fries, just put them in cold, cold water and you'll notice it as soon as we put them in. in the sense that the water immediately starts to turn cloudy because we want to get the starch out of these things, I'm going to stir them around a little bit in there and we're going to let them soak here for about five minutes so they all soak up. the excess starch from where we made all those cuts, but look at our perfect fries, they look amazing and look just like McDonald's fries.

Okay, see you in five minutes. These babies have been here for five minutes and look how cloudy the water is, now we're going to take them out of this cold water, put them on our paper towels here and let them drain for a good 5 to 10 minutes here, we're actually going to make a kind of Pat. Let them drain for about five minutes, but we'll pat them at the same time and I'll show you what I'm talking about. I am so proud of my little fries because they look amazing. no more hiding there and now we're going to pat these down here, try to dry them a little bit, we're going to move them to the side, dump this water, come back right now as part of the process to get that wonderful McDonald's taste.

Do you soak your fries in hot water with corn syrup and sugar? I have about 12 cups of water here. You can use less in a smaller pot and pour it into a saucepan if you want to do it that way, but for these 12 cups of water I'm going to put in 1/2 cup of corn syrup and I'm waiting for this to boil so I thought I'd dissolve my sugars right now we're also going to put add 1/2 cup of white granulated sugar and stir it until it dissolves, then we're going to bring this water to a boil and right when it boils I'll be right back to show you what we're going to do next, watch in a minute , okay, the water boiled, we just turned it off and look at these beautiful fries here.

I have to show them a little more. You can see them? Sheila. I'm telling you what. Now it's your turn to take a 10-minute bath in our boiling water which we turned off. We're not going to keep boiling it. We're just going to use that hot water with that sugar and that corn syrup in it to soak these fries for 10 minutes, in fact. , I could close the lid again now. You don't need a big pot like this, you can do it in a saucepan or whatever and just leave them out in the open so I'm talking, but I'm going to push these guys to really start happening and then I love doing that, then I'm going to put this cover here for ten minutes and we'll come back to you, we remove them. the burner and we let them sit here for ten minutes in this sweet water with corn syrup and sugar hot boiling water but we never continue on the burner we take it out we're going to put these here what I'm going to do because I want to pat them dry.

I'm going to put out some paper towels. I'm going to put a little more on top of those paper towels. You also want to pat this pile dry. You want them to be really nice and Dry, then we're going to turn them over here a little bit and open them up, they're spread out as much as possible and now we're going to put them in the freezer for 20 minutes, this seems like a lot. of work, but trust me, if you want some delicious McDonald's style fries perfectly cut without anyone slamming the window when you go through the drive-thru, this is how you do it, we'll stick them in the freezer for 20 minutes and I'll be right back, our fries Fries came back from the freezer, but they are not frozen, but they are very cold.

Our oil has reached 350 degrees, so we turn on the camera and gently put them here and what are we going to do. What we do is we cook them for exactly two minutes, we'll blanch them, so to speak, then we'll take them out of there and put them here to cool a little bit and I'll explain. See you in two minutes then well these have been cooking for exactly two minutes and we are going to take them out of the oil and let them rest here for ten minutes and let them cool down then we will put them back in the oil for seven more minutes and you will see the potatoes Most perfect McDonald's fries on the floor.

Let me bring the rest here. We will put them in a different container so they cool differently. The rest of our small fries and the fries you're looking at came from four of those nice big potatoes, if that helps I'll put all the ingredients, times and everything in the description box under our second batch. here for two minutes so they come out too and what we're doing is cooking them nice and fluffy on the inside or blanching them just like you would blanch corn that my Uncle Bob used to make. all types of sweet corn then I blanched it and then I froze it now here is the clean part you want to save yourself a lot of time do all this in advance up to this point right here do it where you cut it soak it cold water put it in the hot water with the corn syrup and sugar, then you blanch it, after letting it sit in the freezer for a while, you blanch it for two minutes and then you can freeze them, place them well and freeze them. and put them in a bag and then when you're ready to eat fries and have the kids over, all you have to do is cook them for another seven minutes, that's what McDonald's does when you see them throw out that big bag of fries frozen.

They have been soaked, they have sweetness, they have been blanched, they are already pre-cooked on the inside and then they only have to cook on the outside, so we are going to let them rest for about ten minutes and we are going to cook them. Leave them for seven minutes and get them nicely browned, hit them with a hand of salt and you'll have some of the best perfect McDonald's fries you've ever seen. See you in a moment. Our oils go back up to 350. These have been cooling for about 10 minutes. I actually put them in the refrigerator for the last five minutes to help them cool down a bit.

Now we are ready for the final step. We're going to leave these babies here for seven minutes. and perfect McDonald's fries are going to come out. Maybe I can get the whole little batch because I only have a few more here, let me see if I can fit the rest in there, sure, look, okay, that's four potatoes. your watch goes to seven minutes with the perfect McDonald's fries, we're going up in our last thirty seconds to seven minutes and these are floating up, so I've been gently pushing them down from time to time to help you with a little bit of oil. in the top half of these few that are at the top and I have to tell you that I took one out of the fryer and I chilled it here and I ate it a minute ago and it's absolutely fantastic and it stretches out so what are we going to do? do?

Look at these McDonald's fries, with a perfect golden color. We're going to sprinkle about half of this stuff in the basket, hit it with a little salt, and then look at it some more, exactly like McDonald's fries, not like those big, huge, French fries.

french

fries coming out of that cutter you have at

home

I know because I have a couple and I'll never use them again I'm going to take the time to make mine with a little more salt on top let me move this to the side here if I can, yeah I can slide it out of my way, be careful with that oil so I can have this front and center, mix it in with the fries a little bit, look at this, oh you know. those nice long ones you find in the McDonald's bin from time to time, what if each one of them were that big?

Wouldn't it be great to let them cool for just a second? All we need now is some game ketchup. crispy on the outside soft and fluffy on the inside you won't believe what I told the kid at the window to get McDonald's to come out two of these little containers for me and Miss Sheila and I don't have one of those little metal spoons so I'm going You may have to push them with your fingers to get them to look right, but I will tell you that they are absolutely fantastic. If I can really tell you about this recipe, it turned out so good, each one of these fries is just perfect, put them in there and see if I can get another handful or two of these, just cool off and go where you can get them.

If you're tired of coming home to soggy fries, make your own at home and this. This is exactly what they look like at McDonald's, am I right? Or am I right when you buy them at McDonald's? well, fantastic, wow, perfect homemade McDonald's fries, they are absolutely crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside, I got slammed on camera because they are too good and look what we have for dinner tonight, all the little outsides of the skins when we square them we are going to fry them later stop using one of these that is, stop using one of those things cut them like I showed you and you will make the most delicious and perfect McDonald's style fries Have you ever eaten?

They are absolutely amazing, right? Sheila, ate a couple of them while we moved the camera back and wow, it's fantastic, we hope you enjoyed this recipe, in fact we hope you subscribe to our channel, little shock, and rinse your face. palpable here in just a second, if you haven't already, when you click on it a popup will appear and you can press subscribe and once the SUBSCRIBE box is there, if you look to the right of that you will see a little bell , click on that and a notification box will pop up. If you highlight that box when checking it, press sure, you willwill notify you every time we come out with a new recipe. and we really hope you do and we thank the subscribers who are already doing a great job on this side.

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