French fries in halogen oven

The introduction

Hello everyone, I hope, that you are all doing just fine!

In this article, I want to tell you about this day, when we got this new halogen oven and how we cooked the french fries in it.

You know, people love potatoes and they have so many recipes of using potatoes and there are plenty of others, that we don’t know, perhaps. So these recipes are just unimaginably various and people just know some of them and prepare those ones, because either they are easy to prepare or they just love those recipes and that’s why they prepare them. Well, to tell you the truth, boiling potatoes have been the easiest potato dish so far, I guess, because you just put them into the water in the saucepan and that’s just it, they get boiled and then you take them out and, well, they are pretty delicious, too, of course, that’s why many people love them and, besides, then you can prepare some other dishes with them. I mean, who doesn’t know this potato puree and it’s even sold in the supermarkets in prepared dishes’ section, it doesn’t cost much and it’s really easily sold, I mean, there are lots of customers who buy that potato puree.

Anyways, fried potatoes have been a popular dish in my family and we usually had them every time when we were children and, well, you know, children especially love those fried potatoes and stuff like that and we had those potatoes and we could fry them anytime we wanted. However, you should know, that too many potatoes are not good for anyone, if you want to know the truth, so that it’s not that good to’ have fried potatoes all the time and especially for children. You know, nowadays everyone goes to this fast food restaurants, such as McDonald’s and they have some French fries there and they take their children there and I was pretty surprised and shocked to see how little babies are there with their parents who let them eat those unhealthy stuff and they don’t even say no to their children, when they want to have some McDonald’s stuff.

Preparation process

Well, the other day it was a Saturday evening and we were all at home and stuff like that and I just wanted to have some fried potatoes with Tkemali, because I just love that combination of food and this Tkemali goes very well with the fried potatoes and I wanted to have some of it, so that I told others about it and, well, they agreed to have some, I mean, my father can cook potatoes really well and he is kind of chef with that, because he often cooks fried potatoes and one of the reasons for that is that he really likes eating them, too, and we all eat fried potatoes, because we love eating them, if you want to know the truth.

So that, he started peeling the potatoes and then I told him, that I wanted the potatoes to be narrow and small, just like those French fries, and, well, he doesn’t really like cutting them into very thin pieces, because it takes much time, of course. That’s when my sister took out this small gadget with cube shaped holes and it was for potatoes and you could put it on a potato and push it and the potato would get cut into many pieces and it was a good gadget with the first impression and we just had to use it and see whether it was as good as it seemed. And, to be honest, it did a great job in cutting the potatoes and the sizes were very good and I just liked them that way. And the cutting process was pretty easy, too, of course and it didn’t take as much time as it would if we cut them with knife.

So, after that, we just put some oil into a bowl and let those pieces of potatoes get greased in oil, so that they would have some oil on them and, besides, they wouldn’t get all dried and stuff because of the heat and air moving in the halogen oven. Well, at least, that’s what they told us to do at the supermarket when we were buying that halogen oven. To tell you the truth, my friend had told me, too, that she didn’t really like those fried potatoes that she made in that halogen oven of hers, however, I was thinking about that and couldn’t really understand, why it wouldn’t be good to prepare fried potatoes in the halogen oven. Well, I didn’t know the reason exactly, so I decided to have them prepared there and see what would it come out after that, because it would be a great relief if the potatoes would be great, because then we wouldn’t use frying pans and we wouldn’t use so much oil in them, you know, you should fry potatoes in plenty of oil to get them done very well and what I know about that is that once you have poured plenty of oil into a frying pan and put the potatoes in it and cooked them, then you need to take them out and put them on a towel or napkin or something like that to take the excess oil from the potatoes. And that’s what people usually don’t do, because they are too lazy for that and they just eat those potatoes like that with too much oil and, you know, too much oil is not good for anyone, because of so many reasons.

So, we did this thing, that we divided this whole potato pieces into two parts and we decided to have one of them in the halogen oven and the other half in a frying pan and see how they would cook and how much time they would need and stuff like that, so that it would be really challenging thing, you know. well, the smaller portion happens to be in the halogen oven and the other ones went into a frying pan. I guess, it all needed something like 20 minutes, however, it was the first time that we were preparing fried potatoes in a halogen oven, so that we didn’t really know when to stop the timer, however, it could take even less time, I guess, because after those 20 minutes or so, the potatoes were pretty well-cooked. You know, they were just perfect for me. I had all those red Tkemali poured onto them and ate them, they were that good!

Anyways, you now know, that baking potatoes in the halogen oven is a great idea and once you have those potato pieces greased with oil, you can put them on a pan or rack or something and bake them for 20 minutes or so and they will be just as crispy as you like and, at the same time, they will be moist and well-cooked.

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