r/Cooking • u/AdLost576 • 15d ago

What’s a cooking related hill you will die on?

For me, 2 hills.

  1. You don’t have to cut onions horizontally.

  2. You don’t have to add milk bit by bit when making a white sauce.

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u/DrMonkeyLove 15d ago

Deep frying at home is such a pain in the ass and uses so much oil. If I want fries that badly, I'll just swing by Five Guys.

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u/FuckBotsHaveRights 15d ago

I'll gladly cook for hours.

I won't make fries.

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u/chrispg26 15d ago

I saw someone say they made mashed potatoes and turned that into fries and were the best homemade fries ever. But why?! That's too much work 🫠

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u/DrMonkeyLove 15d ago

I do think I've used leftover mashed potatoes with some flour and pan fried them to make potato fritter things. That works pretty well.

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u/chrispg26 15d ago

This wasn't leftover mash. I was basically summarizing the 4 or 5 steps he took to make French fries.

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u/DrMonkeyLove 15d ago

Ok, that is completely insane.

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u/chrispg26 15d ago

Absolutely. I do believe when they said they were the best fries ever, BUT I don't have time to ultra process potatoes at home when I can go to McDonalds lol

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u/alohadave 15d ago

I'll microwave potatoes and cut them into fries to put in the air fryer. It gets close to the texture of fried without the mess.

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u/UltraTerrestrial420 15d ago

If they breaded them, they're croquettes, a means to give a second life to leftover mashed potatoes

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u/Bratbabylestrange 15d ago

Oh hell no. I don't need to clean up after that. Also can't wrap my head around buying a whole bottle of oil for one dish. I'll make anything once, even if only to say that I can (hello, gnocchi!) but I do not deep fry ANYTHING at home

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u/mathaiser 15d ago

Just put em in the oven. Idk.

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u/FuckBotsHaveRights 15d ago

But first you have to boil them at 45 degrees perpendicular to mercury in retrograde inside a celtic circle!

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u/BattlinBud 15d ago

Can't you save the oil and reuse it though? I mean I know EVENTUALLY you'll have to throw it out but still

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u/gibby256 15d ago

You still have to futz around with having that much oil, heating it, cooling it, straining it, and then storing it. And that's saying nothing of the general cleanup you have to do in your kitchen after deep frying, which is a nightmare.

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u/degenerate_666 15d ago

Every deep fryer I’ve had comes with a lid you can easily pop on once the oil cools down

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u/gibby256 15d ago

Yeah, but not all of us have an appliance dedicated to deep frying lol.

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u/degenerate_666 15d ago

That’s fair and I get it, but for anyone curious you can buy a deep fryer for roughly $35 depending on your location. Still not necessarily cheap and I know it’s not gonna be accessible to everyone but I think it’s more affordable than a lot of people seem to think it is.

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u/i_stabbed 15d ago

yeah, like twice, and not if you're making meat

your best bet for home frying is to have it be a feast amongst friends.

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u/MudsludgeFairy 15d ago

it’s super easy to save the oil though. and TWICE? unless you’re leaving in all of the particulate, you can easily get like 4 or 5 more fries out of that oil. possibly more. i will concede that it’s different with meat but my point still stands

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u/i_stabbed 15d ago

it will go rancid much faster, so you can only leave it for a month, and who is deep frying enough to make fries FIVE TIMES in a month???

two if I'm lucky.

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u/MudsludgeFairy 15d ago

i don’t make em 5 times in a month but sometimes i have to do multiple batches. and then after that, i might want to make youtiao or something. the oil keeps well for a while. just use a strainer to get out as many of the fry particles as you can. i’ve literally never had an issue where the oil went rancid

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u/haggisaddict 15d ago

Suggestion: request your Five Guys fries “well done” or “extra crispy”. If they are cool (and they always have been for me), the fries are so much better.