France, F@$% Yeah!

[British_Rover]

Too much Top Gear, maybe?

(nah, it's not possible)

I have had people give me funny looks when I called a wrench a spanner.

[jensked]

^ Naw they are Crisps. jensked Pic is of Chips (although the 'double cook' is a bit la di da).

WTF? Frying them twice is what makes them crispy. It's just basic molecular cuisine.

100% of the freshly made fries in Belgium is fried twice. If you do it only once, you end up with weak and floppy fries that aren't cooked proprely on the inside.

[NooDle]

If you do it only once, you end up with weak and floppy fries that aren't cooked proprely on the inside.

That's what everyone else in the world does. And that's why everyone else's fries SUCK

[bone]

belgium FTW!

[Cobol74]

Depends upon the variety of potato you choose to chip, with high moisture content you can get away with cooking only once, but I will agree with you the double cook works bloody well, its just not the normal way for us to cook them is only once.

[Blind_Io]

Alton Brown did a whole show on the potato, it was pretty cool. I had no idea there were such variations in starch and sugar content. I'm sure the type of potato makes a huge difference.

[upyourego]

[un-dee]

It always touches me when people do something like that. And my grandfather was there, too. Just on the other side.

And now I want some fries.

[AlexmanDK]

I like how this thread developed

[chaos386]

Hey, we were hungry.