Ah, I see. Great tip. I'll do an A/B comparison. I'll plan to slice the potatos pretty thin with my V-slicer, so that should help with the wash because of the large surface area. Thanks again.
That makes sense. If you do fries (and maybe chips too) you can do a double fry.
Have a pan/rack combo to pull them out to partially dry/drain, let the oil heat back up and toss them back in for a short while.
Darn. Now I'm "hungry", although I just ate...
Well, if you do fries.. Make sure to make a good pot of 3-bean red chili, have some extra cheese and now you have chili fries ;) One of my favorite things.