
Instead, the potatoes have to be cut by hand, creating a rectangle shape from the potato. Hall says fries from one of these cutters will end up too big. The first step in Hall’s process is to not use a french fry cutter (and apparently McDonald’s doesn’t use a potato puree like some have speculated). It’s not how we had heard the fries were made, either. However, if you love a good challenge or simply miss the taste of these classic fries, you’ll want to see how these bad boys are made at home. To that end, here is a fair warning: there are kind of a lot of steps.


Hall says a lot of cooks get it wrong from the start since the size, shape, texture, and flavor all have to line up in order to get that signature flavor that most of us have grown up enjoying. Nashville cook, musician, and puppeteer, Steve Hall, came up with his own process of making McDonald’s french fries at home.
