i think the best deep fried sweet potato deep fried to date for me is the
tempura, sp sweet potatoes at our local chinese buffett, Lee

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"Brick" > wrote in message
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> On 31-Oct-2009, "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:
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>> "Nunya Bidnits" > wrote in message
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>> > When you deep fry yams, do you double cook them like french fries, a
>> > partial
>> > cook till they are limp, pull and rest, then finish in hotter oil?
>> >
>> > Not necessary for premade frozen fries, of course, those have already
>> > been
>> > partially cooked, but I wondered if the technique works for sweet
>> > potato
>> > fries too.
>> >
>> > MartyB
>
> Yes but! The double fry technique is used to get rid of the excess
> moisture in the potatoes that drags the oil temperature down. By
> prefrying you get rid of much of the water leaving a potato that
> is ready to be fried in hot oil. When re-introduced to the fryer
> the temperature doesn't drop radically, thus allowing your food
> to fry properly. Sweet potatoes don't contain nearly so much
> water to begin with, so the benefit is less apparent. I'll still double
> fry, but use shorter timing for sweet potatoes.
>
> You of course are encouraged to do as you please. (YMMV)
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