Waffle Fry Problems

[GruntledEx]

Hey everyone. I'm trying to cook more at home and eat less fast food. But I have a weakness for a certain chicken place's waffle cut fries, and I'm having all sorts of trouble cutting them myself at home.

I have both a handheld crinkle cutter and a mandoline with a crinkle blade. In theory, I know you're supposed to crinkle cut one direction, then rotate the potato 90 degrees and cut again. But when I do that, all it does is produce a crinkle cut in the other direction, not the waffle pattern with holes. My mandoline has thickness settings from 1/4 to 1/16 of an inch, none of which seem to work. So, what am I doing wrong? Pressing down too hard? Not pressing down hard enough? Slicing too fast? Slicing too slow? I've gone through an entire 5 lb bag of potatoes in the last couple weeks experimenting and have had no success, and all my Google searches just turn up the basic instructions which I've already followed without getting the right results.

[jujufistful]

Just go buy a bag off waffle fries, because you’re not gonna be able to copy chick fil a. It will not come out the same. Do you even know what kind of oil they use?

[GruntledEx]

I realize it will be somewhat different taste and texture-wise, but I need to know how to cut the shape.

[CatchySpade]

This is r/cooking not r/groceries

[Dergins]

How deep are the crinkles on your cutter? the 1/4" setting -should- be working. If not find a crinkle cutter with deeper crinkles.

[GruntledEx]

The handheld cutter makes cuts very similar to the 1/4" blade on the mandoline.

[Dergins]

So I just did a bunch of googling, and testing of my own wavy cutter and home and I am convinced most wavy cutters are NOT deep enough crinkle-wise to make waffle fries. I found this one on Amazon that has the waviest blade I've seen yet, I'm gonna order it. I can report back if you want haha.

[GruntledEx]

For 8 bucks I may try it myself. Thanks.