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Unnatural cut fries

Dimitri

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One of the shows like How Its Made showed how they cut fires. The potatoes
are in a pipe with water and get pushed through a grid of cutting blades.
Like a water jet. Cut and washed at the same time.

On 2011-06-26, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> One of the shows like How Its Made showed how they cut fires. The potatoes
> are in a pipe with water and get pushed through a grid of cutting blades.
> Like a water jet. Cut and washed at the same time.

I thought you were saying they were cut WITH jets of water. I've seen
hight pressure water cut through 6 inches of armor grade steel like it
was butter. I can't imagine it's not being done with a wimpy potato.

nb

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:38:18 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
> wrote:

> One of the shows like How Its Made showed how they cut fires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkZXwyr3Mvo

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notbob wrote:
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> On 2011-06-26, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
> > One of the shows like How Its Made showed how they cut fires. The potatoes
> > are in a pipe with water and get pushed through a grid of cutting blades.
> > Like a water jet. Cut and washed at the same time.
>
> I thought you were saying they were cut WITH jets of water. I've seen
> hight pressure water cut through 6 inches of armor grade steel like it
> was butter. I can't imagine it's not being done with a wimpy potato.
>
> nb

High pressure water jet cutters are pretty expensive, both to purchase
as well as to operate and maintain. For something easy to blade cut like
a potato and where modest water pressure can force a potato "piston"
past cutting blades, I expect the blade method is a lot more cost
effective. I did see that water jet cutting is used to slice large sheet
cakes into small portions without crush damage to the cake.