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Chef John’s Cottage Fries

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Description While they don’t get the same love as French fries, home fries, or steak fries, cottage fries more than hold their own against their potato side dish fraternity brothers. Ingredients 4 baking (russet) potatoes, sliced into 3/8-inch thick rounds salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste … Read more

Chef John’s French Fries

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Description I don’t think most people realize that any decent French fry needs to be twice fried. The first frying in done at a lower temperature, which softens the potato and prepares the starchy surface for the second frying’s crispification. Ingredients 1 russet potato, cut into evenly sized strips 1 quart vegetable oil for frying … Read more