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How to cook perfect chips: Learn the science of crispiness

Should you boil first? What about double frying? Follow Sam Wong's scientific strategy and you can cook perfect fries for yourself

By Sam Wong

15 January 2020

chips

James Winspear

What you need

Cooking oil
Potatoes
Wok or large pan
Thermometer

CRISPINESS is one of food’s most prized properties, but why do we find it so appealing? It might be because it often arises when raw ingredients become delicious and nutritious cooked food. also speculates that we have learned to associate crispiness with high-fat foods, which we find particularly rewarding.

The ultimate crispy and rewarding food has to be the chip. To be clear, I mean the hot, fried sticks of potato, not the thin discs, which are called crisps in the UK.…

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