More than a year ago, I posted about baked French fries, and now I have perfected the method in the men's style.

Set temperature to 250°C (230-240°C with convection) before you get everything started and get your bakeware ready for your fries. Take two medium-sized potato, cut into short fries, 2 or 3 cm at most, just dump to the sheet pan or whatever you use, do not try anything else but throwing onto the pan. Men don't mess around.

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Get your stash of condiments out of cabinet, then add
  1. Vegetable oil that whatever you use to fry fries, I use olive oil.
  2. Toasted sesame oil. (Optional)
  3. Salt and white pepper.
  4. Garlic powder.
  5. Onion powder.
  6. Chili powder or flakes, I use Jalapẽno flakes.
  7. Celery powder.
What? Are you seriously asking the amounts of ingredients? Just sprinkle as much as you like, men don't care about detail. If you put into too much heat, then you can say that's a new Man v. Food episode!

I don't know if it is common for your fries with celery powder, but it is not for me. Just I made a little more celery powder, gotta to use it somewhere. Actually, I made #4 to #7 on my own.

It looks like more or less like the next photo and get ready for the spoon, it's about time to mess around:

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Toss around, try to coat fries with everything you just dump in.

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Once LGTBSTHTM (Look Good To Be Sent To Hell To Me), pop pan into the top rack of your oven. Yes, I know the temperature hasn't reached 250°C, probably not even 100°C. Let me tell you one thing very crucial: It does not matter at all. Just shove the pan into the darn oven already!

At this moment, before the first check at 10 minutes mark, you need to prepare vegetables. What, Y A N Veg? (You eat no vegetables) Okay, then you can skip this. If you do, prepare some vegetables while you wait.

Ten minutes later, take fries out and use the spoon to scrape the fries off the pan, then pop back in. Five minutes later, they should look brown on the skin. Add vegetables, mix well, the pop back in.

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You check every five minutes to make sure they don't stick. When you first check after adding vegetables, you will notice that it's a bit wet and slimy. Don't worry about it, continue mixing. The excess liquid will be vaporized soon and the fries will taste even yummier because of vegetable juice. Repeat two or three times, it shall be done!

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Transfer to your favorite TV bowl, yes, the same one you use to eat junk food from while you sit in front of television all Friday night and Saturday night and Sunday night, alright, every night.

Not so fast! Let the fries cool down whilst you are washing the pan. Come on, it's still too hot to eat, why not do some cleaning work. After you wash the pan, pop back into oven, the remnant of heat is enough to dry the pan. I hate dishes are wet after wash them, LOL!

Now you can grab the bowl and be the man of television! The fries are crispy outside, and soft and creamy inside.

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I also make the iced tea during the process, which only takes up to about 45 minutes, you have plenty time to do things while waiting.

Recognize dat spoon? Yes, it's the same one you start with. This is the men's style, so you only wash one pan, one bowl, and one spoon! Hail to the laziness!

You don't need to pick fires up with hands, so you can keep your hands clean when you touch the remote. That spoon is the hero!

If you are really a man, you don't need wash the bowl, that is you eat from the pan! However, if you are truly a man in your bones, not only you don't need to wash the bowl, but also the spoon. You eat from the pan with your bare hand, which implies you scrape fries with your bare hands.

For that, I must admit I am either not man enough or not dumb enough. Well, I rather to be not man enough though. ;p

Anyway, enjoy your style fries. These made from other times:

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