Waffle cut potatoe chips!

[SunnyD]

Wake me when they make trellis cut chips.

Or portcullis cut chips.

 

[Markbnj]

My daughters love the tater tots at Sonic. On the hierarchy of how I like my potato served, waffle fries are waaaay above nasty tater tots, at least.

 

[dank69]

Wake me when they make trellis cut chips.

Or portcullis cut chips.

Laser cut fries?

 

[SunnyD]

Laser cut fries?

Only if done by shark.

 

[squarecut1]

I like waffle fries

 

[EliteRetard]

I am still on my homemade waffle fry quest:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2375116

No luck yet, sadly

Seriously? Its really easy. Find a ~6mm corrugated slicer (mandoline) with a depth adjustment and set the gap, rotate 90 degrees with each cut.

If you're trying to use one of those $15 hack jobs with tiny corrugations or shredder blades it wont work well, if at all. Get a good stainless steel one.

This should be a good one for the money:
http://www.amazon.com/Update-Interna.../dp/B004RO6KFY

Oddly, Staples seems to have the best price on it right now:
http://www.staples.com/Update-Intern...8#desc_content
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[feralkid]

 

[Kaido]

Seriously? Its really easy. Find a ~6mm corrugated slicer (mandoline) with a depth adjustment and set the gap, rotate 90 degrees with each cut.

If you're trying to use one of those $15 hack jobs with tiny corrugations or shredder blades it wont work well, if at all. Get a good stainless steel one.

This should be a good one for the money:
http://www.amazon.com/Update-Interna.../dp/B004RO6KFY

Oddly, Staples seems to have the best price on it right now:
http://www.staples.com/Update-Intern...8#desc_content
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It has been discussed extensively in the thread. There is no easy way of making a waffle fry at home, at least not with consistent quality. The primary issue is the blade design. I tried several mandolins from $8 to $200+, as well as couple manual tools, with no luck. The core waffle fry design contains 3 features:

1. Cross-cut (horizontal one side, vertical the flip side)
2. Thick
3. Holes

Here is a sample image:

http://static4.businessinsider.com/...keting-power-of-chick-fil-as-waffle-fries.jpg

A mandolin can cut holes, but it's very thin, like a potato chip. A mandolin can also cut thick fries, but then you lose the holes. Waffle fries without holes does not offer the same eating experience as waffle fries with holes (we're getting real technical here, haha). Due to the nature of the blade design on the 5+ mandolins I tried, you can't achieve a thick cut with holes like a traditional waffle fry.

I think they either have a special press or some kind of custom slicing machine that (1) has deep grooves to allow for cross-cut holes & a thick slice, and (2) allows for consistent. The best results I've gotten have been with the hand tool I bought, but it's extremely difficult to get consistent quality by hand because there's no jig to line it up perfectly every time, so you end up not getting holes in the final product for the majority of the slices.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Schooled by a 6th grader

 

[EliteRetard]

It has been discussed extensively in the thread. There is no easy way of making a waffle fry at home, at least not with consistent quality. The primary issue is the blade design. I tried several mandolins from $8 to $200+, as well as couple manual tools, with no luck. The core waffle fry design contains 3 features:

1. Cross-cut (horizontal one side, vertical the flip side)
2. Thick
3. Holes

Here is a sample image:

http://static4.businessinsider.com/...keting-power-of-chick-fil-as-waffle-fries.jpg

A mandolin can cut holes, but it's very thin, like a potato chip. A mandolin can also cut thick fries, but then you lose the holes. Waffle fries without holes does not offer the same eating experience as waffle fries with holes (we're getting real technical here, haha). Due to the nature of the blade design on the 5+ mandolins I tried, you can't achieve a thick cut with holes like a traditional waffle fry.

I think they either have a special press or some kind of custom slicing machine that (1) has deep grooves to allow for cross-cut holes & a thick slice, and (2) allows for consistent. The best results I've gotten have been with the hand tool I bought, but it's extremely difficult to get consistent quality by hand because there's no jig to line it up perfectly every time, so you end up not getting holes in the final product for the majority of the slices.

Didn't read through your thread...but how thick are we talking? a 6mm/.25" wave should make about 10mm/.4" thick fries.

I admit I don't know the wave size on the unit I linked, but I figure 6mm/.25" is about standard...that's what size I have and it works fine. Perhaps you are adjusting them wrong? If the wave is ~6mm then set the depth to the bottom of the wave at ~4-5mm. Either that or you are looking for like a steak waffle fry.

I'll try to see if I can find wave sizes and if there are larger ones.

 

[Captante]

Steak fries ftw.