Comments on: when life gives you duck fat…

By: Marc @ No Recipes

Marc @ No Recipes — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:33:34 +0000

Duck fat makes EVERYTHING taste better!

By: Jessica@ Foodmayhem

Jessica@ Foodmayhem — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:08:02 +0000

Hi Claudia,

Your fries caught my eye on tastespotting…and made my day. Strip House in NY is known for their Crisp Duck Fat Potatoes, which were pretty good, but I didn’t taste enough duck fat…perhaps you could one up them!

By: diva

diva — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:28:46 +0000

i hate descriminating animals. sayin which ones are better or worth protecting more but horse fat is a strict no-no!
duck fat is pretty good but i hear goose fat is even better. potatoes roasted in goose fat and crushed fresh rosemary leaves…mmmmm.x

By: We Are Never Full

We Are Never Full — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:20:55 +0000

you dirty, dirty, BAD girl. Oh no you didn’t! Oh yes you did. This is probably the side dish I’d choose on my deathbed. Hell, it’d probably send me to my deathbed!! This is a beautiful thing. I ate these once in France and I thought I’d honestly died and gone to heaven. If we lived in a perfect word, this is how fries would be made every time and no one would put on a pound.

awesome!

By: michelle @ TNS

michelle @ TNS — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:28:37 +0000

heston blumenthal is not fucking around with the cooking of the fries.

i know it’s hypocritical of me because i eat all manner of other animals, but i unequivocally reject anything fried in horse fat.

duck fat is my total BFF, but it doesn’t know it yet.

By: mari

mari — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:41:49 +0000

They do eat horse meat in the NL, and I’ve had paardenworst (horse sausage) before and found it quite tasty. I’ve never seen horse fat however. My friend in Chicago is obsessed with it too, so I was doing some research on it over here, but haven’t come up with a sample, as of yet.

By: democommie

democommie — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:05:17 +0000

Claudia:

My arteries are hardening, just looking at the photo!

What Harold McGee book had that information in it?

I ate horsemeat once, not knowing it. I was in Germany at a mesoamerican colleague’s house for dinner. His lovely french wife prepared a delicious dinner with some great “beef” which turned out to be notbeef. Tasted great.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:40:04 +0000

wow. those are some serious looking fries!

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:48:11 +0000

Yeah, duh! I can be so dense at 4am. Sorry…

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:23:15 +0000

I’m new to your site and like it Claudia – great pics. A few weeks ago I had to make 500 canapes featuring duck so I had plenty of fat to render. Making the potatoes for my 2 year old was great – she squealed when tasting them. FYI – Horse fat is sworn by in France for frites and having had them I agree. They usually don’t use russets like we do in the states and use different cooking teps at different stages. Jeffrey Steingarten has a great chapter in his book “The Man who ate Everything” on frites, referencing this whole subject.

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:34:17 +0000

num (sorry, couldn’t help it).
Wow. Those look amazing. I adore duck fat frites, but to be honest, if I want potatoes in duck fat, I roast them, or head out to a not-too-distant french restaurant for frites with a french 75. I am much too lazy to go through the multi-step process that a good fry requires. Did I mention that those look amazing, though? It makes a little more effort in the kitchen seem quite tempting.

By: cookiecrumb

cookiecrumb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:17:11 +0000

I only made french fries once. In sixth-grade Home Economics — so somebody else had to deal with the leftover oil, thank goodness. (Horse fat? No, back in my day it was Wesson oil.)

By: claudia

claudia — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:11:39 +0000

robert – you mean? you couldn’t possibly mean…

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:59 +0000

Fret,

Barter doesnt count as a purchase in our state. Whatcha got to trade?

By: ntsc

ntsc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:33:45 +0000

You can no longer buy horse for human consumption in the US, as the only three states with horse butchers outlawed the practice.

Can those cute lil cows be far behind?

By: claudia

claudia — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:37:41 +0000

justin – wow. what a concept. that’d be quite the breast… yowza.

mari – this topic to me is fascinating. but the whole horse thing is so bizarro. and i hear it has quite the odor. but i’ll try anything.

donald – duck fat from my duck breasts!

lesley – you’re not allowed to say ‘num’ on my blog. and if you ever go to the full ‘nummy’ you will be barred and i will plunge hot pokers in my eyeballs just from seeing it before me…

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:53:36 +0000

my biggest problem with horse-fat fries would be the horse breasts I would have to eat for dinner the night before. I haven’t even seen that masochist Andrew Zimmern try that one…yet

By: Mari

Mari — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:39:37 +0000

When I was in Chicago at the beginning of the year I went to Hot Doug’s: The Sausage Superstore and Encased Meat Emporium (http://www.hotdougs.com), and they make duck fat fries (on Fridays and Saturdays only). We went on a Tuesday, so we missed out on the fries. I still proposed to Doug, for his wicked talent with sausages. It was a life changing event. While 5 of us, devoured 7 different kinds of gourmet hot dogs, we talked duck fat vs. horse fat fries.

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:55:40 +0000

Great pix Claudia (as usual).

But, I confused? Which method did you use? Horse or duck?

By: Lesley

Lesley — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:39:54 +0000

The fries look delicious (love the presentation!), but I leave such things to the experts: Ore Ida and various restaurants. I do not like cooking with oil…

In-N-Out’s fries were amazing. Num.