Anyone manage to get homemade potato wedges to crisp up?

[lolalotta]

We use Maris Piper spuds, scrub them, slice them into 8, parboil them for 5 mins then coat them in a tbsp olive oil/ tsp of paprika/ tsp spicey season all/ crushed garlic/ desert spoon of polenta flour (spelling?) and them bake them for 40 mins at 180 in a fan oven but they don't always crisp up....just wondering if I'm doing something wrong?

Try 220 degrees for the first 15 mins.

I shake mine after draining at the parboil stage to give them a fluffy edge that should crisp up. I also heat the oil in the tray before tossing them in. Finally I use sunflower oil as it heats higher. Olive oil doesn't cope as well in an oven I find.

I put them in raw, with a tiny bit of oil and the crisp up beautifully. If I use too much oil, they get soggy. I

I also second not par boiling them. Life's too short!

Thank you for your thoughts...,so I have some experimenting to, a hotter oven/ sunflower oil over olive and perhaps skipping the par-boiling step altogether!

I don't par boil them. Really hot oven for about 20/30 minutes usually does the trick.

Sunflower oil.

Not done them for ages but used to parboil then toss in olive oil. Always used a very hot (220 deg) oven and they crisped up fine.

Oh - always preheat the oven tray too

Put them in the fridge on a baking tray once cooled after par boiling. heat oven to very hot, remove from fridge, drizzle with oil, bake for first 10 minutes at very hot, turn temp down to 200ish to bake the inside.

Heston B did a load of experiments on chips and roasties you can probably find it online if you are really interested.

The critical thing is that they have stopped steaming (properly cooled) before you put them in the hot oven because the steam stops the crispy skin forming.

Another one here who never bothers to par boil them.

Very hot oven. Bit of olive oil and salt and rosemary.

Microwave the whole spud instead of parboiling.
Use mix of sunflower oil (for crispness) and olive (for flavour).
Hot hot oven for shorter time.

I don't par boil, just toss them in sunflower oil and bake in a really hot oven for 20-25mins.

I dont par boil them either.

I put them on at 200 for 45 mins though.

I just use olive oil too and leave the skins on.

If you can get hold of them, pink fir apple spuds go crispy in the oven. (They look like they shouldn't, because they look like new potatoes, but they seem to not behave like new potatoes.) Their shapes can be a bit weird though! I just cut them into wedges, dry them a bit on some kitchen roll, toss with oil and bake on a fairly high heat. I use that Fry-Light spray as well, which seems to make things crispier than normal oil.

If you can't buy them, they're a doddle to grow :)

Lola your oven is not hot enough if you do it at 180. Preheat it at gas 6 for 5 - 10 minutes then put your potatoes (I just cover mine in olive oil and a bit of cumin and coriander ) in for 20 minutes before checking and turning them over, then leave them in for a further 15 minutes or so.

Oh and I never par boil mine either.

Might also depend on how many you have in the tray. The more spacing the more likely they'll crisp up. X ps I don't par boil either.

I don't par boil and I make sure they are all skin side down on the tray and bake at 200 to get crispy edges :)

Par boil, hot oven, heat the tray and oil first, drain the wedges and let them dry in the hot pan. Scuff them a bit, like roast potatoes. In the oven they go, twenty minutes.

Lovely.

I par boil and cool. All some salt, heat sunflower oil in roasting tray at 200degress then add wedges and tossing around in the oil. 20mins and they are done all crispy.

Right, I am experimenting tonight!
We have sunflower oil, Maris Pipers and first off we are going to par boil for a few
Minutes, the let cool PROPERLY and pop them in a hotter oven! I will report back!
Thank you all for your tips!

I never parboil. Chop them and toss them in olive oil and seasoning by shaking them in a box then cook on a pre-heated baking tray at about 220 for about 20 mins, depending on your oven.

Heat the oil in the oven first, then coat in hot oil.

Why don't you parboil half of them and then you can do a proper taste test!

Bohoica I will do next time!
By the sea, we did!!!! They are in the oven and looking very promising!!!!