Access to this page has been denied because we believe you are using the best way to reheat pizza tools to browse the website. French fries with a bowl of ketchup on a table. The pandemic supposedly got people back into their kitchens — baking bread and making comfort food casseroles.
But around here, we’ve actually found ourselves getting take-out a little more often. At first it was a way to support local restaurants, and then it became increasingly uncomfortable to linger in grocery stores hunting for rarely-used ingredients for new recipes. Something I noticed after consuming these Styrofoam-encased meals, is that we sometimes ended up with some leftover French fries. Restaurants often accompany their entrees with outsized portions of them, and our kids especially don’t always have the appetite to finish theirs off.
The leftover fries would end up in the fridge, where they would invariably remain untouched, and then be shunted to the trash. Because who likes to eat leftover French fries? Reheat them in the oven, and they turn hard and dry. And yet, it seems a shame to throw your fries away. You paid for them, and take-out is expensive. You want to get your full money’s worth instead of letting your food go to waste. Fortunately, it’s possible to reheat and reuse leftover French fries in ways that restore their golden glory.
