Kristen Kish is turning fast food into haute cuisine on ‘Fast Foodies’
metroweekly.comThe secret to replicating the unique, addictive taste of McDonald’s fries at home is to use both salt and sugar.“So, the first key is that you have to use fine sea salt,” says Chef Kristen Kish. “You hear a lot of chefs saying, ‘Kosher salt.
Kosher salt.’ But there’s a specific salt for everything. And so when you need something to stick, especially a french fry, which is essentially a sponge, you have to have super-fine sea salt.
If you were to do three big pinches of salt in your fries, you should then add three-quarters of a pinch of sugar. Just enough to make it feel not like that sweet-salty kettle corn, but just half a step below that.” Also: Add the sugar and salt after cooking, not before, Kish notes.The chef should know.
Kish has recreated nearly two dozen fast food items from scratch, trying to duplicate them as closely as possible to their original form in Fast Foodies.
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