View Single Post
  #7 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Hank Rogers[_3_] Hank Rogers[_3_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,220
Default New French Fry method

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 6/30/2019 10:31 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> On Sunday, June 30, 2019 at 3:42:40 PM UTC-5,
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I recently tried a new way of clearing the excess starch off of
>>>> potatoes before frying them to make french fries, and it works
>>>> perfectly and it only takes about 5 minutes. I simply wash the raw
>>>> potatoes in soap and water. Then rinse them very well. The way
>>>> to tell
>>>> if the starch has been cleared away is when your potatoes are in a
>>>> strainer run water over them and place a clear glass underneath and
>>>> make sure the water is not cloudy.
>>> Plain water will work just as well unless you are using some odd
>>> variety of
>>> potato.
>>>

>>
>> But only if it's RO filtered water.
>>
>>

>
> Here at the goat barn we use OS water.* Yep, dug a trench to an open
> sewer behind the barn and get free water.* More flavor than the RO
> stuff.


Yoose have a fancy city goat barn. Mine don't even have a sewer line.