This is interesting. They are very firmly in the bottom of my list and have no chance of moving up, but curiously, I don’t think I’ve ever had these soggy ones people are talking about. Actually the few I had were quite nicely crisped and I would wager must have been seeing of the best examples of their class. As a food on their own, not ranked alongside chips, they’re probably a more solid “kind of okay”, they just can’t go beyond last place in any such list because they’ll never beat actual chips. Crinkle cut almost managed to be terrible enough to be the first of it’s kind beaten by sweet potato fries but then I had to imagine being presented with either and no other substitutes and even then I couldn’t bring myself to pick the sweet potato despite them likely having an actually better crisp texture in that scenario than those awful crinkle cuts. Just not looking for sweet potato flavour at all if I’m having chips. I guess the trouble is, for me, making them in to chips is probably one of the best ways to make sweet potato tolerable but I just dislike them in the first place so it’s hardly going to be warmly embraced.
You haven’t had good ones then, because a well cooked sweet tater fry that is crispy on the outside and soft in the middle is the best.
This is interesting. They are very firmly in the bottom of my list and have no chance of moving up, but curiously, I don’t think I’ve ever had these soggy ones people are talking about. Actually the few I had were quite nicely crisped and I would wager must have been seeing of the best examples of their class. As a food on their own, not ranked alongside chips, they’re probably a more solid “kind of okay”, they just can’t go beyond last place in any such list because they’ll never beat actual chips. Crinkle cut almost managed to be terrible enough to be the first of it’s kind beaten by sweet potato fries but then I had to imagine being presented with either and no other substitutes and even then I couldn’t bring myself to pick the sweet potato despite them likely having an actually better crisp texture in that scenario than those awful crinkle cuts. Just not looking for sweet potato flavour at all if I’m having chips. I guess the trouble is, for me, making them in to chips is probably one of the best ways to make sweet potato tolerable but I just dislike them in the first place so it’s hardly going to be warmly embraced.
I clearly haven’t, but I’d like to.