Posted on 07/10/2015 9:10:26 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
cut, unprocessed potatoes. abrading them ... cutting them ... washing them ... blanching them
Dude, you were PROCESSING them, lol!
So you own some of their stock, then.
Correction: I'm not the one who needs to cite evidence, since I'm not the one making the insinuation.
When you took them home, they tasted like potatoes. Be confident your stock in them is protected. I really don’t care.
I did, they did. You can tell on current production, too. Some have a bit of black from an eye, or a slight green hue from the skin. They're not chopped and formed, otherwise they'd all be uniform. They're not. They're all different sizes and shapes (within the fry cut shape, that is). They have imperfections.
It's not the fries, it's the oil they use anymore. McDonald's changed from using beef tallow to something else several years ago to please Indian consumers and Muslims.
I remember seeing that as a kid, but it's been a long, long time ago. Not that I've grown up. I've just grown older.
I have stock in McD? I wish.
That could be true, I guess. But there is a distinctive difference between how they used to and do now. They only are palatable if you eat them there right away.
Regardless, the preparation and storage is completely difference now. NONE of their fries are blanched in advance now. Right out of a plastic bag or box into the approved fryer.
Yep, McD uses real potatoes, they just process them at the factory instead of at the restaurant.
Burger King uses some kind of chopped/formed concoction.
Yes they are, at the factory.
That cylindrical device was an upright drum that had an abrasive coating on the vertical surface and a similarly coated rotating bottom. It basically sanded the peel off the potato by tumbling them against the abrasion (like those spray on truck bed liners).
From there a chute put them in a sink where they could be washed and hand cut in a cutter into another sink where they could be further washed. Then fried for a while (blanching) and then stored on a rack until final cooking.
Best fries ever.
Ever had Five Guys? They do now what McDonald's used to do, except they don't peel the potatoes. They wash them and run them through the cutter right into the oil. Even their fries taste like crap when they get cold. You can't nuke 'em, either. You have to warm 'em back up using the oven. They even have the source farm's name written on a sign. Every time I've been, they've been from Idaho, usually near Pocatello or Idaho Falls (I'm from there, but currently live in New Mexico).
I’d have to see that.
You have to wash them after cutting. That’s the key. I remember at least a quarter to half inch of starch buildup per load in the sink after washing.
Yes, McD's fries were double-fried (once quickly, to prevent browning/deterioration before use, I think). They even do that now. They're quick fried and cooled, then frozen at the factory. They then fry them again at the store.
Actually, my experience with FG fries is they are larger in size, and I have driven 20 miles with them and even nuking they were better than MDs 5 minutes away.
If that is true, then it have to be the oil and possibly a smaller size in cross section. What they have today is crap.
Part of it is that it was just a pain. They used to have 2 oils, the one with a bit of beef tallow for the fries and the one with none for everything else (because you really don’t want to fry your chicken and fish in beef tallow, it would be weird). Add minimum wage employees that can’t keep track of blue box in this one red box in that one, and using the up at different rates, and different rates of spoilage, plus of course whiny vegetarians, and 2 greases was too much.
True, but it takes that larger mass more time to cool, and they still taste like crap when they get cold. That, and the bag is pretty much filled with fries on top of the burgers, so there's much more heat and mass to have to cool over that 20 minutes than McD's at 5.
I’d agree, but they aren’t the same. I sometimes used to take stuff home from there when I worked and it always better than now.
The bottom line now is that I’d never stop at a McDonalds to give my grand daughters something to eat. They deserve better, IMO.
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