Hello everyone, today we will check how many French fries we can get from 1 bag of potatoes We’ll also find out how much you can save by preparing French fries at home, instead of just buying them at McDonald’s Especially for this video I bought these hefty scales let's find out how much our bag of potatoes weighs 38kg 200g It will be interesting to compare the weight after peeling the potato peels. Let's do it Just remove the top layer of peel with a vegetable peeler Place the peeled potatoes in a container and continue to peel all the remaining potatoes To make it faster we will work together All potatoes are peeled. but now it's too dirty We transfer it all to the sink put the empty container on the scales and reset them We begin to wash the potatoes from dirt We return the already clean one to the container The vegetable peeler left grooves on the potatoes, so we can better wash the dirt out of them using a sponge this way things went much faster That's it, now the potatoes are clean and weighs 29 kilograms that is, just by peeling the potatoes we lost 9 kilograms of total weight I never thought that the peel weighs so much Let's move on to slicing Just use a knife to first divide the potatoes into slices and then onto the sticks This is how you get these preparations for French fries, but this is a rather long process To make it faster, I bought a special machine for slicing potatoes the set includes attachments for country-style potatoes large fries average and small I think the medium size is perfect The nozzle consists of 2 parts First, install the plastic part on the pusher and install a grid of knives in the far part of the machine The device is ready to work and I think you already understand on what principle it works Let's take some potato put it in the device and simply pressing on the lever, we cut it It makes a perfect cut simply a brilliant invention It’s just that all the cutting happens in one movement I once had a similar thing, but it was plastic, and it worked very poorly, it cracked and always broke under the load but here everything is made of metal, you don’t have to be afraid to press, it’s professional and very reliable continue cutting our potatoes To prevent the potatoes from turning dark, we will periodically throw them into the water and continue until we have cut all the potatoes literally 15 minutes and we have all the potatoes chopped We need to let it soak so that the excess starch comes out, this will take a couple of hours During this time we will prepare sweet and sour sauce like at McDonald's turns out it's made from peach jam put the whole jar in a saucepan we also need apricot jam add the same volume as peach Corn syrup will make our sauce beautiful and glossy Mustard for piquancy 9 percent vinegar and definitely lemon juice crush and add a couple of cloves of garlic and water with starch mix it all until smooth now we put it on the stove We will constantly stir the sauce so that it does not burn and of course add salt The sauce should simmer for just a couple of minutes after which it is ready remove from the stove The garlic has already given off its taste, so we remove it For convenience, pour it into a sauce bottle and close the lid so that it doesn’t get airy the preparations for the French fries had already soaked and floated a little to the surface and also became super elastic Now all the water needs to be drained There is still some moisture left here, so let’s get rid of it with a towel transfer the potatoes to one of the halves and cover the second one on top done Place the dried potatoes into a container and continue until it is completely dry Finally the potatoes are ready for frying We will cook it in a cauldron First, let's fill it with oil. we need 15 liters A thermometer is required to monitor the temperature and turn on the burner As soon as the oil reaches 140 degrees, transfer the potatoes to the deep fryer This is the so-called first roast and it will take exactly 3 minutes We wait until the timer rings and you can take out the potatoes Of course, at this stage there is no talk of any crust dump into a saucepan and throw in the second portion of potatoes Absolutely every slice must go through primary roasting ready Now the potatoes are only half ready, now there will be a hotter frying stage to set the crust, Without primary frying, the potatoes simply would not have had time to cook inside Prepare the table in advance by covering it with paper towels As soon as the oil has warmed up to 170 degrees, we begin the final frying literally three minutes and the crust is ready, you can put the crispy potatoes on towels, they will absorb excess fat I chose the table, not just a container, since a large area is needed here, otherwise with each new batch of potatoes the old ones will be poured with oil, and there will be no crispy crust And we continue to fry the remaining potatoes we turned a bag of potatoes into french fries and to make it tasty, be sure to add salt to it and mix. so that the salt sticks to each slice Having pulled it all up onto the mound, it became clear that there weren’t that many French fries that came out of a sack of potatoes let's find out exactly how much To do this, we will sweat and count each slice and so from a bag of potatoes you get 7572 French fries or 17 kilograms 800 g! that is, less than half the original weight of the potatoes let's try it with our sauce it's very tasty, our sauce is 90 percent similar to the sweet and sour sauce from McDonald's It's time to pack in those potatoes For this we will use these special boxes first we need to straighten them and can be filled with potatoes and place the boxes in gastronorm containers so that they do not fall let's continue I ended up filling 112 boxes taking into account all the products and gas, they cost us only $37 If we had bought that amount of potatoes at McDonald’s, it would have cost $286, which is 7 times more expensive We put all the potatoes into the car to take them to the children We also bought them Pepsi, and also took our sauce and gravy boats and brought it all to a mother and child home for children in need and brought it all to a mother and child home for children in need The children set out the gravy boats, and I poured sweet and sour sauce on them and the children began to eat it all a little later they became thirsty and began to drink soda apparently they liked it and are happy!