McDonald's French fries are mostly a vegetable...right?

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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    What's the oil and salth threshold for realness? I just made some fries at home, need to know if they're real or not.

    Whatever your own taste buds tell you, I suppose. My guess is that if you made them at home, they are less salty and less oily than the ones at McDonald's. :wink:
    I really stopped thinking McD's fries were real food after my mom washed two of them in my 3 year old nephew's overalls pocket and they made it through the washer & the dryer looking the same as when he was eating them the day before. Doesn't it have to be mostly preservatives to survive soap, water, fabric softer and a tumble through the dryer?

    Not if I'm doing it right. The goal is to make them taste like McDonald's fries without having to leave my house. I even spritz those bad boys with beef broth.

    LMAO - good luck with that. Have you installed a heat lamp to keep them under for 15 minutes after frying and before eating? :laugh: :laugh:

    No, I just put them in the oven on the 'warm' setting for a little while. Basically the same process, since my oven is electric.

    The process is slice->spritz->quick fry->spritz again->Finish frying->Salt


    That said I usually see my fries come out of the fryer and get dumped and salted. Sounds like you visit a crappy McD's if they're able to keep fries around for a whole 15 minutes at a time, tbh.


    You are basically a genius.
  • tlab827
    tlab827 Posts: 155 Member
    I will eat your fries if you don't want them.
  • OMGSugarOHNOS
    OMGSugarOHNOS Posts: 204 Member
    I would never eat McDonald's French Fries! I make my own at home out of cauliflower.
    Pm that recipe yo!
  • bound4beauty
    bound4beauty Posts: 274 Member
    My sarcasm meter is working just fine but I couldn't resist responding to the assertion that potatoes are a "carb" or "starch" and therefore not a vegetable. Really? Really?! Below is a list of root vegetables of which the potato is one. But PLEASE...do not fry any of these or they immediately cease to be a vegetable and become something bad and evil. Tossing them in olive oil sprinkled in sea salt and roasting at a high temperature may make them slightly less evil. Your mileage may vary.


    Ahipa (Pachyrhizus ahipa)
    Arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza)
    Bamboo shoot (Bambusa vulgaris and Phyllostachys edulis)
    Beetroot (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris)
    Burdock (Arctium lappa)
    Broadleaf arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)
    Camas (Camassia)
    Canna (Canna spp.)
    Carrot (Daucus carota)
    Cassava (Manihot esculenta)
    Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis)
    Daikon (Raphanus sativus Longipinnatus group)
    Earthnut pea (Lathyrus tuberosus)
    Elephant Foot yam (Amorphophallus_paeoniifolius)
    Ensete (Ensete ventricosum)
    Galangal (Alpinia galanga)
    Ginger (Zingiber officinale)
    Hamburg parsley (Petroselinum crispum var. tuberosum)
    Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)
    Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
    Jícama (Pachyrhizus erosus)
    Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum)
    Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
    Pignut (Conopodium majus)
    Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
    Prairie turnip (Psoralea esculenta)
    Radish (Raphanus sativus)
    Rutabaga (Brassica napus Napobrassica group)
    Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius)
    Scorzonera (Scorzonera hispanica)
    Skirret (Sium sisarum)
    Swede (Brassica napus Napobrassica group)
    Sweet Potato or Kumara (Ipomoea batatas)
    Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
    Ti (Cordyline fruticosa)
    Tigernut (Cyperus esculentus)
    Turmeric (Curcuma longa)
    Turnip (Brassica rapa Rapifera group)
    Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus)
    Wasabi (Wasabia japonica)
    Water caltrop (Trapa natans) or (Trapa bicornis).
    Water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)
    Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius)
    Yam (Dioscorea spp.)[2]
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    What's the oil and salth threshold for realness? I just made some fries at home, need to know if they're real or not.

    Whatever your own taste buds tell you, I suppose. My guess is that if you made them at home, they are less salty and less oily than the ones at McDonald's. :wink:
    I really stopped thinking McD's fries were real food after my mom washed two of them in my 3 year old nephew's overalls pocket and they made it through the washer & the dryer looking the same as when he was eating them the day before. Doesn't it have to be mostly preservatives to survive soap, water, fabric softer and a tumble through the dryer?

    Not if I'm doing it right. The goal is to make them taste like McDonald's fries without having to leave my house. I even spritz those bad boys with beef broth.

    LMAO - good luck with that. Have you installed a heat lamp to keep them under for 15 minutes after frying and before eating? :laugh: :laugh:

    No, I just put them in the oven on the 'warm' setting for a little while. Basically the same process, since my oven is electric.

    The process is slice->spritz->quick fry->spritz again->Finish frying->Salt


    That said I usually see my fries come out of the fryer and get dumped and salted. Sounds like you visit a crappy McD's if they're able to keep fries around for a whole 15 minutes at a time, tbh.


    You are basically a genius.

    I try. :wink:
  • NonnyMary
    NonnyMary Posts: 982 Member
    Ketchup is considered a vegetable too in school lunch programs.

    French fries are a vegetable made from a potato which is a starchy vegetable and the Irish people lived on them pretty well until that famine came to Ireland.

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  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    LOL at this topic.

    They taste terrible to me. If I want some good chips, I will go to a fish and chip shop. If I want something that just tastes like bucket loads of salt, then I'll generally make something with bucketloads of salt :tongue:
  • JingleMuffin
    JingleMuffin Posts: 543 Member
    No its mostly oil.
    + beef fat
  • JWB42
    JWB42 Posts: 112
    I don't know what's worse? The fat they are fried in or the POUND of salt they put on them. Step away from the fires!:bigsmile:
  • VeganLexi
    VeganLexi Posts: 960 Member
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  • Inshape13
    Inshape13 Posts: 680 Member
    Kind of like popcorn is a vegetable.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    I don't know what's worse? The fat they are fried in or the POUND of salt they put on them. Step away from the fires!:bigsmile:

    Yes, fires can be dangerous. Fries can be delicious.
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    The best fries evah! :drinker:
  • MelissaPhippsFeagins
    MelissaPhippsFeagins Posts: 8,063 Member

    No, I just put them in the oven on the 'warm' setting for a little while. Basically the same process, since my oven is electric.

    The process is slice->spritz->quick fry->spritz again->Finish frying->Salt

    That said I usually see my fries come out of the fryer and get dumped and salted. Sounds like you visit a crappy McD's if they're able to keep fries around for a whole 15 minutes at a time, tbh.

    I can see the crappy McDonald's from my front door, but I don't visit it more than 2-3 times a year. Not a fan of McD's. I would probably like your fries...though maybe with less salt. :smile:
  • cadaverousbones
    cadaverousbones Posts: 421 Member
    Yeah I researched into it a little more and its disappointing that they have to inject beef into french fries. I wonder how many vegetarians unknowingly eat them.
  • crista_b
    crista_b Posts: 1,192 Member
    Probably too many, unfortunately. I would still sometimes get the fries when I first became vegetarian and had no idea. That's why I think it's good for people to share the info.

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