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What would be the fry strategy when the potatoes are new and, I would think, loaded with sugar. The older potatoes cook beautifully, and the new ones are dark and limp.
There are several posts ongoing from old crop to new crop when it comes to making fresh-cut fries. As you mentioned, the old potatoes turn out beautifully and the new crop is always a struggle. Briefly, old crop from Idaho is the Russet Burbank variety, and since it has been in storage all season the potatoes have lost a lot of moisture. If stored properly, they didn’t accumulate excess sugars, so they fry up perfectly. Russet Burbanks are a later harvest variety, where the new crop is the Russet Norkotah. These may have excess starch and sugars when coming out of the ground, being sorted and shipped out. The best way to offset them turning out limp and dark is to:
Here are a couple of more detailed posts at this link:
https://idahopotato.com/dr-potato/why-are-my-fresh-cut-fries-turning-dark-so-quickly
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