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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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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Mmmm…Sciencey.

Huzzah!
From CEE-foodindustry.com
Using the common food additive calcium chloride could reduce the formation of acrylamide in potato chips and French fries by about 95 per cent, according to a new study.
The researchers, from Hacettepe University and the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, report that by immersing the potato crisps and French fries in [...]

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Fry-ology 101

…and yes, this material will be on the midterm.
From UC Davis Magazine:

Metamorphosis
The most important factor that distinguishes a potato from a french fry is its layers. A raw potato is 100 percent “core,” with no crunchy crust to please the palate. A potato chip, on the other hand, is 100 percent crust, crisp all [...]

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Very Fry-Tech Cont’d

Okay, so now I’m more amused than outraged…very amused.
Here is another French Fry Vending Machine from Spain.
The Patatas Chef, proud purveyor of the Spanish Fry. (snicker)

Spanish Fry Vending Scientists?

Spanish Fry production process:

A CLEAN AND SMALL SOPHISTICATED FACTORY

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Very Fry-Tech

I find myself feeling both amused and outraged.
Hanna Introduces . . . The French Fry Vendor
Hot Air, not hot oil.
The French Fry Vendor does not [...]

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Eating fries for a better tomorrow.

Cool. Is there anything that fries can’t do?
Most drivers fuel their vehicles with gasoline. Robert Tomey powers his with French fry grease.
The owner of four McDonald’s — in Amory, Aberdeen, Houston and Vernon, Ala. — recently converted his Volkswagen Beetle and the company’s Ford pickup truck to run on used vegetable oil drained [...]

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Freaky Fry Science.

Time well spent:
Having nothing better to do at the North Dakota State University, Dr. Panigrahi and his team decided to have a look at how colours bounce off French fries.
They used a technique called spectral reflectance, also known as colorimetry, which describes colours in terms of numbers. Each wavelength of light in the visible [...]

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Fry-tech

Driving and eating fries too complicated for you?
Wishing someone would come up with a better system?
The wait is over….

Even has a clip-on ketchup cup!

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