Few veggies are as versatile and tasty as potatoes however there is one clear exception to this, the crinkle cut fry. No bigger waste of money or let down as a side has ever been concocted. How someone can take the same base product, a potato, and produce something so disappointing is remarkable.
Crinkle Cut Fries are overall the WORST type of fry you can get. The texture, the mouth feel & overall taste is awful. Supposedly the engineering on the ridges of the crinkle cut is to provide a crunch while maximizing the baking inside the fry.
Sorry folks a swing and a miss, the ridges are never crunchy, in-fact mostly soggy because they are flawed in design retaining excess frying oil - thus leaving you with a limp fry with a mushy potato filling or worse an overcooked charred pile of starch. The overall taste is not nearly on par with a traditional fry either, the texture is terrible and the cut tricks you into thinking you are getting a bigger fry.
Lastly, they taste cheap and are by far are the cheapest frozen fry you can buy at the store. Now I understand the nostalgia from eating these at school & such, but the overall quality of fry is not there. I’d personally recommend any other type of fry than the crinkle cut. If I see them as my only side option I choose a salad or I choose to just fast.
Also worth noting, Burger King discontinued it's poorly named "Satisfries" crinkle cut fries and 2 weeks later it's stock rose 120%!
Now for those that are interested, this the hierarchy of fries.
Curley: Superior cooking, seasoning and above average dunking score
Tater Tots: Best use of space, nice and salty and bite sized
Waffle: Great if you want to get a lot of Ketsup or sauce on your fry
Steak: Gets tricky here on as they can be cooked wrong, usually good seasoning
Traditional: Most common and easy to find, lots of variety at fast food joints
Shoestring: Too small, almost always cooked wrong and hard to handle
Crinkle Cut: Waste of a potato, someone owes me a refund
8/6/2021