VIDEO: How McDonalds make their chips
Have you ever wondered how McDonald's make their legendary french fries? How do they achieve their golden uniformity across all the restaurants ? Are they actually made from whole potatoes or is it just reconstituted organic mush?
Well, McDonald's themselves have released the following video showing just how their chips are made.
It's an interesting if highly corporate look at the inner workings of one of the biggest restaurant chains in the world.
Take it with a pinch of salt.
Grant Imahara - who you might recognise from the TV series 'Mythbusters' - is sent by McDonald's to follow their fries from the restaurant all the way back to its humble origins as an actual potato.
The potatoes are sent to the McDonald's factory where they are washed and shot through a water-powered chipping machine at 60 - 70mph.
The chips are then covered in dextrose (a sugar) - to give them a consistent golden colour - and sodium acid pyrophosphate - which stops them from greying.
They are partially fried in the factory to ensure crispiness and frozen before being sent out to the chain's restaurants.
And that's how you make the perfect McDonald's chip, again and again and again.
We really want chips now.
