Delicious waffles while visiting Brugge \ stacker news ~food_and

130 sats \ 6 comments \ @Carresan 16 Aug food_and_drinks

Last year I went on a trip to Belgium. Great place to visit, not only because of nice places such as Gent, Brussels or Brugge, but because you can enjoy a wide variety of beer, fries and waffles.

You will find plenty of places to enjoy waffles. However, while visiting Brugge, we stopped by at Otto waffle and enjoyed their delicious waffles.

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If you are planning to visit Brugge, this place is worth visiting. I leave you a link to their website.

https://www.ottowaffleatelier.be/

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46 sats \ 4 replies \ @freetx 16 Aug

wide variety of beer, fries and waffles.

Yes, Brugge is like wonderland for adults. I did serious research in trying to recreate their fries, I got pretty close but the missing element is fries are cooked in horse/cow fat. Can be pricey to buy that much cow lard....but they are delicious

46 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 16 Aug

Good fries are hard to make. Same with hash browns. I can never get the right amount of crispy

Those waffles look delicious

46 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 16 Aug

Getting crispy fries is tough! Its ridiculous amount of steps....

Cut potatoes.
Blanch boil for 30 secs to wash off as much starch as possible and help break cells
Let fries cool, layout in single layer
Freeze
Fry in 250F oil for 4-5 mins, remove from oil
Fry again in 375F oil for 4-5 mins until crispy

This is essentially how McDonalds fries are made. They do up to step 5 in factory, then freeze after the first fry and ship to restaurant, so they only do last step onsite.

The goal with all of that is to burst the inner cell walls, so that after frying you get outer crispy and very soft inner.....otherwise just trying to fry raw potatoes results in dense "baked potato" like inner part of fry....