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French Fry Wars Pt. 2 🔥 Burger King & KFC vs My Oven Baked Fries
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Aug 19, 2025
French fries wars part 2! This time, my oven baked French fries are going up against Burger King and KFC. Who do you think will win this battle? Comment below in this exciting French fry food challenge! Sign up to my newsletter so you never miss out a new recipe released on my website: www.cookingwithanadi.com SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL: https://cutt.ly/pjrdIQ8 JOIN THE CHANNEL: https://cutt.ly/jWimruu VISIT MY AMAZON SHOP: https://www.amazon.ca/shop/cookingwithanadi ALSO WATCH: Fast Food Fries vs Air Fryer Fries — Can I Tell the Difference? https://youtu.be/QgZKnqnXRfI Pita Pizza vs Frozen Pizza – Which One Wins: https://youtu.be/EHwQqTkQYrI Oven-Baked Fries: https://youtu.be/CBKH8GaTGD8 Trying out Recipes and Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjt84P6HfNjjjmZycaGlrihrXA_Rb8gjU PRODUCTS USED: Salt crock: https://geni.us/UAzgAt9 Salt: https://geni.us/1ts7c Mixing bowl: https://geni.us/P226lI
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Looks like a lot of you enjoyed the
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video I did comparing my homemade air
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fryer fries with McDonald's fries and
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pizza pizza fries. Check out that video
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to see which one came out on top.
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Well, let's keep that train going. And
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today I'll be comparing my oven baked
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fries with two other fast food places.
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So, let me quickly run out and get the
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fries while you take a look at how the
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oven baked fries get ready.
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[Music]
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So, a lot of the prep work for the oven
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baked fries is very similar to the air
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fryer fries. I first cut the potatoes
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into these strips, let them soak in cold
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water for about 20 25 minutes, and then
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boil them for about 5 minutes or until
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they are partly cooked. but still hold
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their shape. They're still kind of firm.
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Then transfer that into a baking sheet
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after you've patted them dry and then
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coat them well with olive oil. Toss it
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and add more oil as needed. I'm going to
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now transfer this into the oven and bake
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it for about 20 minutes and then give it
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one round of tossing and then finish
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cooking until they are nice golden
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brown. The temperature is at 475° F in
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convection mode. If you want the full
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recipe, then check out the link down
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below. All right, I'm back and here's
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what I came home with. Burger King and
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KFC.
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The fries in the oven are still baking,
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so we're going to flip it in about 5 10
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minutes and then finish them off. To be
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fair, we'll toss these KFC and Burger
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King treats in the oven as well, so that
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they can be as fresh as we can expect
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from the store. It's worth noting though
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that when I went to the Burger King
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drive-thru, they gave it like within 10
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seconds, which meant I got stale fries.
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KFC had to wait almost 5 minutes, and I
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saw them prepare a fresh batch. And
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after just about 30 minutes,
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fries are looking absolutely incredible.
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Let me quickly reheat the other two
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fries so we can actually have a fair
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comparison. So, while the other two
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fries reheat, here are the rules. If you
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haven't seen the first part of this
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video, by the way, check that out. It's
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linked down below. The results were kind
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of expected. Let me know what you think
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down below. Anyways, I'm going to not
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know which one of these plates the fries
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are going to be in. My Mrs. is right off
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camera over here. She's going to shuffle
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the plates. I'm going to close my eyes
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and taste and determine the overall
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flavor, the crispness, and potatoess.
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That's the three main metrics. And then
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we'll see which one comes out at the
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end. Now,
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[Music]
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as that shuffle happens,
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I will most likely not know which plate
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is what, but the idea is to grate each
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fry based on crispiness, potatoiness,
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and overall flavor.
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[Music]
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M
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salty
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like good salty potatoiness
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pretty good and some crisp. Okay, don't
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look. Don't look.
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[Music]
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Close. Blindfolds back on.
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Good crisp.
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Super creamy inside. Maybe this is mine
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cuz oven baked fries tend to get a bit
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drier cuz they cook for way longer. Last
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one. Let's go.
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[Music]
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Ooh. What is this?
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That doesn't taste good.
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It tastes like this avocado guacamole
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thing that I had from McDonald's a
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couple of years back. It's like like
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soap. I don't know. It's probably an
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exaggeration,
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but honestly, it has barely any flavor.
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So, overall flavor I'll start with it's
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a two. So, that first try crispiness out
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of five, I'm going to give it a solid
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four. No, three.
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It was
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four. I'm in the middle. Let's give it
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four. Potatoiness start at five. It was
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super nice and creamy. I don't know
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which one it is.
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No idea.
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Um, and overall flavor, it was a good
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potato.
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Give it a four.
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[Music]
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I think crispiness a solid three, a
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potatoess of five. It was super super
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creamy. And overall flavor is going to
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be a good four. Yeah.
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[Music]
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So overall flavor I'll start with it's a
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two. Two. Maybe cuz it's not super
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fresh. Maybe these fries have to be had
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super fresh. But right now, reheated,
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relatively fresh, it's a two.
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Maybe you'll find out later on why it's
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a two. Crispiness, three.
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And potatoess, there was nothing. Two.
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Two. There was potato.
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[Music]
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So, which one was that last one?
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Mine was the last one. Yeah.
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Did I not season it?
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Did you?
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I don't know. One again. Maybe there's
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an asterisk next to the score, but I
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just seasoned it and I'm reheating it in
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the air fryer so it heats up quickly.
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I'll be as honest as I can. They have
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nothing to gain by promoting my fries
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cuz I always have my deep fried fries
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and air fried fries.
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Let's try it.
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I mean like even with the salt and
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having reheated it
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giving it some like special treatment
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you know that we didn't give to the
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other fries.
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These are not as good as the air fried
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fries that I made homemade. They're just
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drier. Yeah, cuz I guess it's oven
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baked. It's healthier.
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It's a good fry, but it doesn't even
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come close
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to deep fried fries. It doesn't come
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close to deep fried fries. That's why
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the air fryer completely runs over this
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recipe. Plus, what was annoying, we had
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to wait almost an hour for this oven to
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preheat. That's why these other fries
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cooled down. Why would someone make
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this? Like
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or else no one will.
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Yeah. Why would you make oven baked
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fries? Just get an air fryer or just
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make a deep fried. I guess if you're
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trying to lose weight, but you can
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always just get frozen fries from the
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store and instead of deep frying them,
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you air fry them. Unless you really want
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to make homemade fries and you have all
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the time in the world and you don't want
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to buy an air fryer. That's when you
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make oven baked fries, I guess. Yeah,
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frozen fries would have the additives,
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preservatives that they add. So, if you
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don't want to buy an air fryer and you
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want fries and you want to stay healthy
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and you don't care about fries that are
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a bit drier because you're looking for
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that crispiness because you can
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undercook them a bit. They won't be as
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crisp. They'll be a bit limp, but
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they'll be more moist. What was the
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second one that I had? This is Burger
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King.
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Second one.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Burger King was kind of What did I
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give it?
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You liked that. Was the best one.
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The best one?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Cuz I can kind of
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The stale one.
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That the stale one.
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Yeah, the stale one had the best.
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That's kind of blows my mind that these
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stale fries from Burger King because
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they served it in under 30 seconds. It
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was probably already there. And I did
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grab a bite right away and it was not
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piping hot unlike these KFC fries that
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came after about five minutes of
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waiting. And I saw the guy making it
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fresh as well.
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What's the point? You can just have
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stale Burger King fries and they're
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better than KFC fresh fries. That's our
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That's our winner right there. Followed
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by KFC, I guess. And then dead last oven
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baked fries. It's my recipe. Matter of
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fact, doesn't come close to my air fried
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fry recipe either. And the biggest
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culprit of that is how long it cooks in
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the oven, which dries it out. Like if
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you're looking at this um on your
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screens, yeah, some of them are too
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shriveled up, too dry. But then this one
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is not too thin. It's not too crispy,
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too burned or whatever. But even that
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one, the the dryness factor is is right
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up there. But that tells us that deep
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fried is the way to go, followed right
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closely by air fryer fries. And maybe
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we'll do some sort of head-to-head of
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the air fryer fries with these fries or
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the winner of this round to see what
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comes out on top. Maybe have to like
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build some leaderboards and almost like
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FIFA style, you know. Of course, the
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third method of fries that I haven't
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covered yet will be coming soon.
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deep fried fries versus two other
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fast food fries. And if you want one of
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your favorite fast food spots to be
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featured in this comparison for deep
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fried fries, let me know down below.