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Color Standards System for French Fries

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From xrite.com

X-Rite, the company that's buying Pantone Inc. and its Pantone Matching System (a series of standard colors used in printing and design) offers a system of color standards for cooking frozen french fries (pictured, above).

Called the Munsell USDA Frozen French Fry Standard, "this fast, easy visual color reference helps ensure perfectly cooked fries every time." It'll run you $119.50 (MSRP).

There are also standards for canned ripe olives, tomato grades A & C, honey, and pumpkins and squash, among others.

8 Comments:

I love it. Can I get a poster of that to put up in my kitchen?

- French Fry Girl

I know one place where this chart won't be needed - In-n-Out. Fresh cut potatoes, right into the fryer.

The chart would probably be included in the $119.50 suggested retail price. Depends. That's either beaucoup bucks or a fair price for some great art.

Oh great. It's bad enough waiting at Starbucks for someone getting a 1/2 caf, soy, no whip, extra carmel machiatto. Now we'll have people demanding a medium order of #FF332 and a large order of #FF456. It's liable to spread to onion rings too. ;-)

Not to mention the extra charges for spot color.

Honey? There are so many different varieties, how do they standardize them all?

Pageycooks: Probably for the most commercialized honey, I'm sure. Not the small-batch ultrapremium stuff.

Fuddrucker's used to have a doneness chart for clarity in the ordering as well as cooking process. Very unappetizing, iconic burgers in various shades of red, pink, and gray were labeled with their degree of doneness, and you could pretty much just point. I don't know if they do that anymore.

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