--- title: How to Make McDonald's French Fries at Home: Recipe Video description: This recipe explains how to make those delicious, crispy fries without ingredients like citric acid canonical: https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-26T19:09:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:26.782Z og:title: Here's How to Make McDonald's French Fries at Home og:description: A recipe for those delicious, crispy fries without ingredients like citric acid og:url: https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How to Make McDonald's French Fries at Home twitter:description: A recipe for those delicious, crispy fries without ingredients like citric acid twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How to Make McDonald's French Fries at Home ## Video: Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of? [Watch (HLS stream): Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nGOOAY0j.m3u8) (5:05)  _Published 2015-01-20. Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 26, 2015 7:09 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 26, 2015 7:09 PM UTC A few months ago, McDonald’s shared [an inside look](http://time.com/3675518/how-mcdonalds-makes-french-fries/) at how the chain makes its signature french fries. Now, thanks to this handy tutorial from PopSugar, you can make your own copycat snack at home. It’s certainly a much more labor-intensive process than simply walking to the nearest McDonald’s location and buying some — but this way, you can make them without chemical additives like citric acid and sodium acid pyrophosphate. According to another [McDonald’s video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6RBtx4JU3c) released earlier this year, the recipe contains 19 ingredients, but to make this at-home version, you just need potatoes, corn syrup, peanut oil, beef lard, water and salt. Oh, a decent knife will help too. Watch the video tutorial above, and check out the full recipe [here](http://www.popsugar.com/food/Homemade-McDonald-French-Fries-Recipe-37204857). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/"},"headline":"Here's How to Make McDonald's French Fries at Home","datePublished":"2015-05-26T19:09:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:26.782Z","description":"This recipe explains how to make those delicious, crispy fries without ingredients like citric acid","url":"https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/","name":"Here's How to Make McDonald's French Fries at Home"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?","description":"Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/nGOOAY0j/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-20T22:40:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nGOOAY0j.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/","duration":"PT5M5S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3896445/mcdonalds-french-fries-home-recipe/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```