An Easy Method to Keep Your Weston Fry Cutter Clean -VIDEO

I love my fry cutter, and have multiple cutter heads for different thicknesses of fries.  But if you like a genuine twice-fried product with a taste and texture that rivals the best fries you've eaten, you really should invest in one of these.


 Because this device is more commonly found in commercial kitchens that cut pounds and pounds of potatoes a day, the chore of cleaning it is less of an issue.  But for me, who is going to pull it off the shelf and cut four or five potatoes, the clean up afterwords can enough of a pain to prevent one from making fries that night.  Specifically, the way the cutter works is by using a plunger to force the potato through the cutting head.  To make sure the sliced fry is fully cut, the plunger face is waffled in texture to force each length completely through the die.

It is this waffle area that becomes gummed up with compressed potato inside the waffled valleys, and the only way to remove the mess is to laboriously pick it out with a knife.

A trick I came up with to reduce and potentially eliminate this mess is to place an easily-removable barrier between the potato and the plunger.  In this case, I use a ziplock bag and place it between the plunger and the potato.  After cutting the potatoes, simply pull the bag off the waffled end.  It will have deformed to the waffled shape, but the bag will be intact and the compressed potato will come off with the bag.

Here is the video: