they are too soft and difficult to fry and hold shape.
A high smoke-point.
Chipsare slices of potatoes deep fried in oil which is a fat. All that oil is absorbed into the potatoes leaving a very fatty snack. Potatoes in general are very healthy, but the frying process makes them high in fat.
Baked potatoes generally are not crispy. Potatoes are crisped by pan frying or deep fat frying. However, whole potatoes baked in their skins can have somewhat crisper skin by rubbing the skin with olive oil and plenty of salt before baking.
Deep fat frying is a cooking method in which the food is immersed completely in very hot oil.
Deep frying on top of stove (in fat)
shallow frying means the food to be fried should not be completely dipped in oil while frying. For this, a flat pan is used rather than a deep bottom pan.
Deep frying adds a lot of unnecessary fats and oils where as roasting lets the fat melt away
Heat, oxygen and time.
There is sauteing where only a very thin film of fat is used in the pan. Then there's pan frying where enough fat is used so that it comes up halfway on the food being fried. Then there is deep frying where the food is submerged in fat.
There is more than one way to fry food, to fry means to cook in hot fat or oil, a frying pan or a deep fat frying pan are two utensils that can be used.
There are lots of different ways, here are a few: boiling broiling frying sauteing dry frying shallow frying deep fat frying baking grilling toasting
It uses oil to cook the potatoes, and oil is a fat. Because you are soaking the oil in fat, when you eat the fried potato, you are also eating all the fat that got soaked into it, and generally eating lots of fat isn’t great for your body. If you were to bake or air fry the potatoes, on the other hand, those methods don’t use oil and thus don’t use any fat, making it a hearthier way to prepare your potatoes.