Home Fries

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2012, America's Test Kitchen TV

Could the key to really good, genuinely crisp home fries be really bad boiled potatoes?

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 1½ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Making home fries the traditional way takes about an hour of standing over a hot skillet, after which you get only three servings at most. We wanted a quicker, more hands-off method for making a larger amount. To speed things up, we develop...

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