THE BEST Air Fryer French Fry (Ranking 7 Methods)

Fresh-cut fries cook best in the T-fal Actifry, and it's hard to mess it up, in my experience. I use a Cosori for air-frying almost everything else.

Peel the potatoes first ya lazy bastard

ok, i am going to stack them very carefully to space them all out. then i will slam them into the fryer and they will absolutely not change spacing. swedish chef

Buy frozen -> soak for a couple minutes (inside needs to stay frozen) -> drain -> shake with salt and oil -> dry and defrost on low heat in the air fryer -> turn up the heat and crisp them up -> when there are a few minutes left i put a cup with butter, rosemary, sage and salt into the air fryer -> mix the herb butter into the fries and serve

Second method is not for people that are hungry

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It feels that if its the crispiness that youre looking for, you couldve just fried them for like 2 minutes longer.

I'm a 💯% follower of Heston's technique that I learned many years ago from "In Search of Perfection". As far as I'm concerned every technique for good fries are based on his method. It just needs to be adjusted for air fryer. I've done stage 1 and 2 and frozen them for convenience.

Salted water right?

Air fryers are about making your life easier. Some of your methods are such a hassle that it would be preferable to deepfry and clean all the mess afterwards. Experimentation is good, anyway.

Another time wasting vid with no temp or time

What even is the premise of this video? On what planet is some elaborate 6 hour long procedure with multiple stages to make a small plate of fries more convenient that just heating up some oil on the stove and making a batch of way better fries by just deep frying them like a human being with dignity? Literally the only point of an air fryer is that you want something that's better than an oven fry but more convenient than deep frying.

Isn't the air fryer suppose to be faster? What's with the alkaline water instead of regular water?

Avec mon Ninja Max je cuis durant 18 minutes à 200 degrés celsius, 500g de frites huilées, je remue toutes les 5 minutes et j'obtiens un résultat parfait. Ne refaites surtout pas les idioties que préconise l'incompétent de cette mauvaise vidéo de propagande absurde.

I just made the best fries i ever ate.. ( including oil fried)
Yukon gold, soak in cold h2o 10 min or so. Soak in warm as pot heats up. Add potatoes as water just barely starts to boil. par boil with salt and tbs baking soda (super important). Water should barely boil or less. Dry on rack. Freeze fries.
Airfry 390 for 10 to 15 min..
400 for last 5 to 10 min.
While airfrying spray lightly with non aresol avacado oil several times. Super crispy outside, fluffy creamy inside.. perfect. 10 out of 10. I don't know if I can recreate the results but im trying again today..

2 HOUR PROCESS TO MAKE AND HANDLE FULL OF FRIES no thanks. ill just buy the bag that was parboiled already and i don't have to worry about rioting potatoes in my kitchen

A half-heston is what i do. Boil them, but fry them once instead of twice. Less crispy yes, but it tastes so much more creamy.

Oh, it’s 400 degrees Farhenheit! Thanks for telling me! :)

there is a really good way using a normal oven as well.

preheat oven to 450, cut peeled russet potato's into half inch fries, boil water with couple pinches of salt and a tiny pinch of baking powder for about 8 minutes,
pour fries into strainer.
place on baking tray with space between the fries and cover in generous amount of olive oil.
put the tray into oven for 20 minutes and then flip the fries over.
bake for another 20 minutes or until desired crispiness.
put the fries into a paper towel lined bowl to drain excess oil and IMMEDIATELY cover them with your salt and desired spices.

if you wait on the last step the spices will have trouble sticking to the fries. you could also pre-season the fries before putting them into the oven but i like it this way because its simpler and less messy.

Ore Ida frozen fries are good and a lot less hassle in the air fryer. I like the Fast Food and Crinkle Cut varieties. Both come out nice and crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.

Should have used potato starch... not corn starch.
On BBC Master Cooks, the cook that does pan fried tomatoes cooks them in backing powder waterand handles them roughly.this will damage the clean cut surface and thus produce more crunch. I think that is your mistake on the Heston. Cook them only 5 minutes and then handle them rough in the cooked form, to roughen the edges, then fry them. It is the best result we get.

The whole point of air fryer is "quick and simple". No way im spending 2h making some damn fries when i can do it in 30 with similar results

I was interested, until you started using avocado oil. Stuff is poisonous to me. It's not an allergy either as I don't share an allergy to a list of things that are associated with it and doctors have tested for that.

By the way, you should try brining your fries.

just tried the first one in my foodi, woohoo this is so easy! Thank you

Checkers was named best fry by some outfit in early Jan of '25 and it's a breaded monstrosity.

French fry or not, breaded recipe dang delicious. thanks

Thank you so much for sharing this video.

if you add a ghee oil you can get the fat from the oil just like chicken wings

Thanks for sharing been wondering how to take a potato and make it good. So far we have had only mediocre fry experiences.

What's an OG cook?

McD's fries = poison crap

sorry I don't want to wait 6 hour prep time when I can go to McDonalds and have them in 5 minutes

stop using these sprays... the propelant ruins the teflon coating

Hello

To prevent the potatoes from disintegrating, add a little vinegar to the water to prevent them from disintegrating.

Other than #1 ~ What a hassle ~ Don't get me wrong the others sound great but who has the time to wait to go through all those steps ~ Really ~ If you had kids and a gun the mayhem it would cause would drive kids to use it (Just kidding) my dog would drool a pool of water in my kitchen that would cause me to call 911 ~ Thanks for your experiment ~ I learned a lot ~ Buy frozen fries and put them in your toaster oven or go to McDonald's ~

Heston 90 minutes to make fries ridiculous

Seems you're crazy for acryl amide ...

I paused Netflix to watch this

Ironically, this chef puts all the fries in a dip. I thought the test was for the potato and not a dip.

They all suck, get a proper fryer.

"Cosori is just leading the game with air fryer technology, which is why you see me using their products" I suspect it might have more to do with the fact that they're paying you lol

The starch in oil would be busting

You were supposed to use vinegar instead of baking soda. Vinegar won’t make them soggy it makes them flexible and in tack.

Thank you for this video, think I was cured of wanting to make French fires, also they all look way overdone and closer to being burned than golden and delicious.

I’m curious, why not use more oil? Won’t help with crisping? You can pay if off excess before serving?

according to this video, better not make any french fries in airfryer because for 5 pieces of french fries you need a whole day of preparation.

what if we want healthy french fries or as healthy as they can be lol