Fried Purple Potato Eaters?

I’m creating a brand new category for this post and I’m calling it:
‘What the F#@k?!’
Apparently when the Chinese aren’t too busy sending missiles into space to destroy satellites/create space debris they do like to mutate the occasional vegetable seed with cosmic radiation. One of these seed mutating missions brought back a potato seed from [...]

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The War on Acrylamide Continues

While I’m going to keep right on eating french fries despite their alleged health risks, I feel it my duty to keep the more health conscious reader(s) abreast of the latest research on the healthification of french fries. I’ve posted about acrylamide in fries before, you may remember it from such posts as:
Acrylamide…delicious but [...]

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Spud lovers month

Good news everyone. February is ‘National Potato Lover’s Month’…. Spudtober perhaps, but I guess, if you want to get all technical, Spudruary might be more appropriate.
Thankfully our friends at Amazon.com have a few products available to help us celebrate. Like this potato ricer for instance. I don’t know what I’d do [...]

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Revving the Search Engine

Looking through my blog stats recently I saw that a search engine term that led people to this blog was ‘poutine prostitute’. Interesting combination. My first thoughts were something about gravy and second degree burns, then french fry pimp, and then finally, what on my site could possibly be linked to this [...]

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Bam!

Over at StartCooking.com you’ll find an interesting recipe, from Emeril, for making ‘healthier’ french fries. Here’s the jist: fries coated with seasoned egg white and then oven baked. They certainly look tasty enough.

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The Universal Principles of Cat Pukery

1. Cats instinctively (spitefully) seek out a puke zone with the following characteristics:
a) the puke zone must contain multiple objects
b) objects within the puke zone must be oddly shaped with multiple surfaces, holes, nooks and or crannies (e.g. [...]

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Mmmm…Pectolytic

“Enzymes improve quality of French fries, says study“
Using pectolytic and hemicellulytic enzymes to change the microstructure of potato cells in French fries improves the quality of the finished product, suggests research from Novozymes.
Writing in the Elsevier journal Food Chemistry, Lisinska and co-workers report: “The results obtained in the study show that pectolytic and hemicellulytic [...]

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Fryday French Fry Fun Facts…Saturday Edition

From an article in the Roseville Press Tribune:
It’s amazing the popularity of the French fry in this country. The average American consumes more than 140 pounds of potatoes annually, and 51 pounds of those are French Fries. More than 6 million pounds of potatoes are processed into frozen fries every year.
If you think McDonald’s and [...]

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From the Bookshelf

Another stop on the ‘End is Nigh’ tour. This week: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, Jr. A rather whimsically ominous look at the folly of mankind. Here’s a description from wikipedia:
It is set in an abbey in the Southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, and takes [...]

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Eating chilies makes him feel great.

There must be a spot for this guy in the IFOCE
From the CBC
Mexican taxi driver wants to be world champion chili-eater
For most people, even the smallest bite of a raw chili pepper means a flushed face and a rush for a gulp of water.
But Manuel Quiroz can guzzle down dozens of Mexico’s spiciest chilies, rub [...]

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