I made some fries with fresh potatoes as prepared above, some Ore-ida fries and Ore-ida shoestring. The one with the least number of fries is the one I did first because i ate some while the other two were cooking. They are the ones made with fresh potatoes. I used the preset for fries @400º for 18 minutes. While they were cooking I read the back of the fries package and they said to cook them for ten minutes so i did and there were no Air Fry instructions for the shoestring potatoes so I cooked them for 10 minutes.
You can see the from fresh did not brown as much. They were dry on the outside but not crispy. The inside was creamy... maybe a little too creamy but they tasted more like potatoes that the other two. The other two looked and acted like fries but did not have as good a flavor IMO. I thought the shoestring potatoes were the most successful over all. PS I reheated the first batch for 1 minute to reheat them but they did not improve the texture. Sometime in the future, I'l see if pre-frying the potatoes for a couple minutes or until they take on a little color makes any difference, but by then, I don't really see the point unless they still taste better.
