Deep-Fried Potato Skins With Crème Fraîche and Smoked Salmon

These hot and crisp potato cups, filled with cool, tangy crème fraîche or sour cream and topped with smoked salmon, are like slightly upscale potato skins—perfect for semi-fancy entertaining.

Deep-Fried Potato Skins With Pulled Pork and Cheddar

French-fried potato-skin cups are filled with smoky and sweet pulled pork and finished off with a topping of melted cheddar cheese, for a baller game-day snack.

Deep-Fried Potato Skins With Melted Raclette Cheese

Crisply fried potato cups, filled with a pool of molten cheese, are about as close to perfection as a food can get.

Crispy Baked Potato Wedges

Crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, oven fries don't have to be forgettable.

Ultra-Crispy New Potatoes With Garlic, Herbs, and Lemon

When I say crispy potatoes, I want potatoes crunchier than the best of french fries; a thick, craggy, crunchy crust that stays crunchy even after it's made its way through a couple circuits around the table. Here's how to get it right every time.

Shoestring Fries

This recipe results in perfectly blonde, perfectly crispy, perfectly fluffy-on-as-much-as-a-matchstick-has-insides, perfectly seasoned fries.

Extra Crispy Duck Fat-Fried Fingerling Potatoes

There are three keys to getting extra crunchy fried potatoes: First, you've got to cook them for long enough to allow the gluey starch inside the cells to dissolve and work on the cell walls, gluing them into a thicker, more robust shape. Secondly, you've got to heat their surface in order to dehydrate and crisp them. Finally, you have to maximize the surface area, giving the potatoes more places to crisp up.

Crispy Smashed Potatoes

My favorite way to cook potatoes: boiled, smashed, then shallow-fried until golden brown and crisp. They get unbelievably crispy with a great creamy center.

Ultra-Crispy Roast Potatoes

These potatoes are parboiled, then tossed roughly in a bowl with a metal spoon until their surfaces are roughed and scratched up. All those microscopic nooks and crannies make for an extra-crunchy exterior.

Extra-Crunchy Potato Chips

Pure, unadulterated, greasy (and I mean that in a good way), salty, potato flavor