My brother's one rude comment fixed my soggy fries problem
Last Tuesday I was bragging about my homemade fries and my brother Dave looked at them and said 'these look like sad wet noodles, what are you even doing?' Turns out I was overcrowding the basket so bad that 6 of my fries were basically steaming instead of crisping. I started doing them in 3 smaller batches with a 5 minute shake halfway through the cook and now they actually crunch. Has anyone else had to get roasted by family before figuring out a simple fix like that?