Try some cayenne powder with a little sugar or honey mixed into that olive oil & salt.
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The fried potatoes I made for myself last night were cooked in bacon fat.
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My new favorite potato recipe:
Preheat cast iron skillet in oven at 375.
Chunk enough potatoes to comfortable fill out a single layer in the pan.
Toss with a tablespoon of oil, a table spoon of soy sauce, and a tablespoon of chinkiang vinegar. Add salt to taste (I go with a teaspoon, but I like salt).
Add to hot skillet and cook in oven till CBR (Crispy, golden brown). I donât even touch them during this time, except to test for doneness in twenty minutes or so.
Sooooooo gooooood.
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Iâm not trying to claim that their food is spectacular, but In-n-Out has figured that out. They only build restaurants where they can ensure sufficient supply from regional farms. That doesnât pass the âMcDonalds scaleâ test but they are a pretty good sized chain. So I think solutions are out there, if itâs a problem people think needs solving.
But weâd have to convince our farmers to grow something other than corn to pull it off.
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Isnât this just a paid advertisement from McDonalds? Corporate shill.
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They donât anymore. I think they stopped that a while back. Even before offending Hindus. But they do add ânatural beef flavorâ to what I assume is the coating on the fries. Being vegetarian, that is the only ingredient in McDâs fries I need to know about.
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Aye, thereâs the rub.
Also, donât let Monsanto⢠hear you think that kind of thing; Sharia blasphemy laws will seem lenient by comparison.
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Itâs a âtrain wreckâ and you canât look awayâŚ
That and padding the first minute or so out of break with a recap of the last minute or so before the breakâŚ
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I believe the network wanted to cut costs or cancel the show. It seems firing the team was the only way to keep it going.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I made a ham sandwich for lunch today and it tasted fine, so why would anyone go out to restaurant and buy prepared food. Bunch of chumps.
Years ago, every McDs was built with a basement, so they could store raw potatoes. They had a system for storing at certain temperatures to develop the natural sugars in one variety. Anyway, yes, they also were frying in beef tallow, but, at least everything was cooked fresh.
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âGrant Imahara reverse engineers McDonaldâs friesâ
If he visited the factory and was told what the ingredients and how they were used it wasnât reverse engineering.
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Strangely, they cut down the actual content for length for the American market. The production company is Australian. The Australian version of the show is longer and has more content. So Iâm really not getting why they feel the need to use the recaps and filler to extend the length of the US segments.
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Last night (in the U.S.) they ran an ad for the Big Mac. They doubled-down on the unhealthiness, going on about no quinoa etc. âit is what it isâ or something to that effect.
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The weird thing with natural flavors is that a ânatural beef flavorâ additive wouldnât actually need to be derived from beef. Since your still often talking about refined flavor containing molecules, if you can extract the same chemical compounds from a different natural source youâd be all good. A lot of âbeef flavoredâ things are largely flavored with yeast extract (including most packaged beef broths). But anyway, McDonaldâs has been pretty explicit for a long time about the fries not being veg friendly.
Its one of those things Iâm often confused to find vocal vegetarians donât seem to know. I once had to explain to some one that instant chicken ramen wasnât made with some magical fake chicken flavor. She didnât believe me so I told her to check the ingredients. Then I got hit with a package of ramen.
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Horse fat is the only way I like my fries. Everything else is so pedestrian.
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I think food science is interesting in its own right, and not in an âOMG CHEMICALS!!1!â kinda way. Iâm a big fan of Kenji Lopez-Altâs Food Lab series over at Serious Eats for that reason: he scientifically âdissemblesâ already tasty recipes and puts them back together to make something amazing.
At the end though, when Grant says âtheyâre not a frankenfood made of chemicalsâŚtheyâre made of potatoes!â triggered in my mind that bit where Tim Minchin screeches âEVERYTHING IS CHEMICALSâ. Because, yâknow. Everything is chemicals. Including potatoes.
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This has been done already and is called Streamlined Mythbusters and it appears to be organized on reddit.
For instance, S04E17 Earthquake Machine/Exploding Lavalamp gets trimmed down to 32:07. And that includes a 30s fake-open.
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