All the Reasons Why Dan Thinks Sweet Potatoes are Pretty Sweet | What's Eating Dan? 

The cat stealing the frie, stole the show

Now, THIS how-to video is something everyone needs to see! Thanks for letting us know that we CAN make fabulous, crunchy sweet potato fries. 👍👍👍

There is a lot of cooking-related content I like on YT, but this is one of the few shows that I really love. Apart from Kenji/Serious Eats and Good Eats, there is almost no touching upon the science in cooking, which is a shame. So this is really appreciated.

The roasted SP coins. Start in a cold oven ..... didn't mention oven temp setting.

I wish Dan would have discussed the difference between sweet potatoes and yams.

I love the cat coming and stealing the fry ! ❤

I dunno if I adore Dan or that cat more. ok no, I love that cat!

Didn’t know I could love sweet potatoes more, and then Dan comes along with his science and recipes. Thanks! This was a great episode, and 3:45 made it even better.

wow that last one fried sweetpotatoes is great didnt know adding them on cronstarch batter can do so much to them. love it

NIce Video but we need to see more of the cat!!

I have another contender for best sweet potato dish: a sweet potato smoothie. Cook the potatoes (I use a Crock Pot with just a small amount of water), cut them up in cubes and freeze them in small portions. Put a portion in your blender/Nutrabullet/Ninja with two pitted dates, a generous amount of cinnamon and nutmeg, and milk or milk substitute. Tastes like liquid pumpkin pie 😋.

I had to watch that cat part about 10 times because it was so darn cute lol

Can we air fry instead of using oil? Tell us how, please!

According to my parents, I ate so much sweet potato as a little kid that I took on an orange tint. Still love them. 😂

I've accidentally sprouted sweet potatoes in my kitchen. They make for beautiful plants.

Japanese sweet potatoes make excellent fries without the parboiling and the corn starch slurry.

What is the oven temp for the sweet pot coins and how long should they be cooked? Thanks!

Thanks for the info, i love sweet potatoes. and the best part was your kitty stealing one! :)

*sheesh* all these flirts for Dan...all I have is a science question: How far in advance can I par boil the sweet potatoes? I'd like to prep them, then add them to corn starch slurry LATER to fry for dinner? Thanks for your help....(Dan, my panther wants to know if your panther dates?)

I just died when I saw the cat, couldn't focus on anything else lol

My favorite episodes are with Dan, he has such a great delivery. Really enjoy learning when it's made fun & interesting. Great job again Dan👏

When baking the coins, what temp do I turn the oven on and for how long?

Seriously. The SP medallions.....start in cold oven but what temp do you set the oven to?

Dan just saved quarantine for me. Also his cat 😻

Give this man a raise! Keep him around a long time.😃💯🙌🏽 This is the video I've been needing to see. Now my sweet potato fries will be better. Thanks, Dan!

The tip about boiling them before using them for soup was super helpful, thanks!

What temperature do we roast the “coins”, and for how long? The video is vague and there isn’t a linked recipe.

You guys should make a new show, hosted by the star of this episode, Fry Kitten.

I love Dan's wry and quirky humor. I hope we get more 'What's eating Dan' in 2021!

I’m just gonna say it: Dan is the cutest bean and I could listen to him nerd out about food science all day 😍

Dan...you are even cuter on RU-vid. Thanks for what you do and give that kitty a pat on the head!

Hi! What temperature should you cook the roasted sweet potatoes ( 1st one) 😀

Try brown mustard and sweet potato. A match made in heaven, IMO.

Too starchy to work well in desserts, too sweet to work in savoury dishes. Pumpkin is another food like that.

Try the purple ones. They are terrific.

Am I the only one trying to figure out how you did a whole video on sweet potatoes and there was mayonnaise, but no pie?

Great fries recipe. Used air fryer too. Harvested 200lbs of sweet potatoes and this is my goto recipe. Thanks Dan!

It's easy: Con-Vol-Voo-LAY-See-Uh (ok, yeah, I work with latin scientific names for a living, but this is not a hard one). And thanks for the crunchy sweet potato fries!

Great education and recommendation!

Try making some sweet potato pie eggnog! I am from Maine and there is pumpkin pie eggnog but sweet potato eggnog I have made and it is delicious and don't forget they all spice. :-)

What temp and how long did he roast the sweet potatos for?

What does a sweet potato use to break down startch into sugar? Yamylases

Adore your cat! I’m praying you’ll rescue another one 🙏🏻😻👍

I wonder if this technique would be ok in an air fryer - to decrease the oil amount.

How are you always that funny and charming? As always, A1!

My favorite and simplest receipt for sweet potatoes is to put them in whole on a baking sheet for an hour at 350. Then let them rest until the skin separates from the flesh. They are soft and juicy but will hold themselves together while falling apart with a fork.

I wonder if a fine drizzle of maple syrup would be interesting? 👍👏👏

I often make a sweet and salty nut butter sauce for roasted sweet potatoes. Any nut butter, sesame oil, a little salt and a generous amount of sugar :)

I love roasted sweet potatoes. I am making some today, in fact. I tried to make sweet potato fries as home before, and yes, they came out soggy. I will try your suggestion. Thanks.

My life quest is to now find the Japanese white sweet potato. Darn you! Your cat is stinking cute too. Thanks Dan. Great episode.

I don't deep fry my sweet potato chips. I place them on a baking tray, near the top of the oven, at about 200 C. Sprinkle with a little oil, and dried thyme. 20 minutes or so later, delicious chips. Surely, healthier than cooking in all that oil.

I sprinkle garlic salt on them after I fry them. Mmmmmhmmm. They pair great with a couple of grilled pork chops.

Literally saw no difference between the two sweet potato soups....

Dan in Louisiana a family brought purple sweet potatoes from Africa when they came to the states in the 1800’s and they are divine .

I always love learning from what's eating you Dan. Thanks

Thank you!!!!! We just got a dutch oven and this looks like a great recipe for it.

Is it okay to use potato or tapioca starch? My husband has a corn allergy.

I made these sweet potato fries last night, and they were *so* delicious! I'll definitely be making them again and again!

I don't know if I just buy out of season sweet potatoes(your typical red garnet)or old sweet potatoes, but they always come out mealy instead of sweet no matter what or how I cook them, from the grocet stores. I tried wrapping in foil and smoking them for an HR+ or baking them for an HR. They still come out mealy. It's carmalized but still mealy. I've grown my own and they taste different (sweet) from the store bought one.

OMG I LUV SWEET POTATOES. This was a wonderful good morning video; (sans guilt of using aged ripened potatoes).

Recipe is suddenly behind a paywall? What gives? I love Dan and his recipes, especially the sweet potato fries. I've been using the recipe since this video came out!! Now I suddenly can't access it. I understand you guys need to get paid for the content you produce, but bait and switching viewers by suddenly throwing recipes behind a paywall months later isn't the way to do it. Monetize your videos with ads, I'm fine with watching ads so you can get your coin, I revisit these videos over and over again, but the paywall thing really sucks. This doesn't motivate me to purchase a subscription to Cook's Illustrated, it motivates me to not use your recipes further so I don't become dependent on something that will suddenly become unavailable behind a paywall. Please reconsider your strategy. I know you probably will never see this, and if you do, you'll probably just say "lol just one person, who cares girl BYE" but MAN I was a really, really big fan. It's not about $1- it's about the principal of a really shitty bait and switch and you being intentionally vague about the recipe throughout this video to drive people to your website with a recipe from 2014 that you've had open that entire time that you were going to intentionally stick in a walled garden a few months after releasing this video. I feel stupid, I feel tricked by you! I recommended you and your recipes to so many people. I even included your material in a presentation I gave to a room full of Master Gardeners where I empathically recommended your content as a fantastic resource for upping your game as a home cook. I feel embarrassed thinking that a lot of those recipes I've passed on to my friends and folks I know they probably can't even use now. There is a GOOD REASON why other cooking publications like Serious Eats have not used this monetization strategy and I suggest you look into why. Dan, what you're doing really sucks. Please reconsider. I'd rather you monetize with ads than do this. It's disingenuous. Perhaps I'm really misunderstanding something here- I hope so. I only write this much because I enjoyed your content so much and genuinely hope for a better change in direction in the future from you guys. Until then, good bye.

The whole Beauregard thing is maganificent . 😒

So is the next episode about celery?

Ah Love me some sweet potato, thanks for sharing xx Great video Dan

I was interested in the baked sweet potato "coins" how do you bake them?

You left our sweet potato pie it’s soooo good

I had some sweet potatoes that needed cooking before they hit the compost bin, I cut them in chunks coated in oil and salt and threw them in the air fryer yumm. Having said that I am going to try this as I love sweet potatoes 🍠

That's sweet little kitten LOL is a sweet potato connoisseur! I couldn't ask for better review on your sweet potato fries! LOL 😁🤩🥳

could you bake them in oil after the cornstarch coating? Would this achieve a crunch too? it's quite similar process to roast potatoes

Can arrowroot be used in place of corn starch?

What temperature for baking the coins?

I agree with Camus (a year later) “Brains, looks, humor what more do you need??? Sweet Potato Fries!!!

Missed Dan videos, youtube haven't been recommending any of these contents as late...maybe just me.

What is the time/temperature for roasted?????

The problem with deep frying is the big waste of oil. Is there a safe way to store and reuse it, and for how long?

Dan, you make wonderful, educational and entertaining videos. Thank you!

side tangent on the asian sweet potatoes - don't throw them out if they sprout! it's very hard to get them to grow actual sweet potatoes, but plant them and the stems of the upper plant can be eaten and are very tasty tossed in oil and garlic. :)

Honestly, Dan needs his own channel

My favorite way to eat them is just baked like a potato then split open and butter on them. Delicious. But however you like them, don't add sugar! Candied sweet potatoes are terrible. Just have a lollipop if that's your thing.

Followed this method except cut my fries a little smaller. Larger works better, very very tasty. Will add this to my rotation!

Best snack in the world-from India.Oven roast whole sweet potatoes(about 40 minsbut a 6min prelim in microwave cuts down roasting time by 15 mins) till the juices are bubbling on surface.Cut in half lengthwise,sprinkle lightly with salt &freshly ground pepper &a generous squeeze of lemon juice Scoop out &eat with spoonThe crispy skins too are tasty.The flesh is a delish alternative to mashed spuds esp with roast pork

Could not finish video because over exaggerated Sheldon routine made it nerve wracking. ATK should know better, not a good mass appeal delivery. Great topic and content may be just as great. But, stage performance is not why I tune into ATK. P.S. talking ridiculously fast doesn’t make you sound smart, just insecure.

The actual recipe would have been nice. When you follow the link, it REQUIRES THAT YOU SIGN UP AND PAY MONEY TO GET THE DETAILS OF THE RECIPE.

Try a roasted whole sweet potatoes split open with crushed nuts berries and yogurt for breakfast. Yummy!

Again, laughing out loud in my office! I mean, um, at home....shhhh! Thanks for making my day Dan! Every episode is better than the last! (celery sound effect brilliant btw😂)

I really don’t get why there are so many negative replies to my comment about sweet potatoes I made! They are soooo tasty and I really love the taste, I don’t understand why people hate them so much.

Then I really love your WHAT'S EATING DAN? videos! But you should change the name to WHAT'S DAN EATING?

I have never liked sweet potatoes except for a baked sweet potato slathered with tahini. Yum yum yum.

1:38 You'll never replace my view of the enzyme as the missiles from my Missile Command center battery shooting down the incoming starchy MIRVs, resulting in a sweet sweet shower of sugars.

I'm glad you didn't prepare them douched in brown sugar and marshmallows. Desert should not be part of the main course. You seem to enjoy sweet potatoes without adding sweet all the extra junk. They are delicious in and of themselves; baked with just salt , pepper and butter or fried. Thanks.

That cat was hilarious!!! 🐈😂

OK good choices all around to have. I like to cut up sweet potatoes or yams and slowly simmer them in water, with a pinch of sea salt, about a table spoon of honey, a quarter teaspoon of both turmeric and curry powder. Let simmer for 20 minutes or so. Then either eat as they are or make a soup or a pie filling. Just something about the complex flavour profiles that develop with this combination. One could add some chopped dates, figs, currants or raisins to the cooking liquid instead of honey.

They do make a pretty plant..my.mom used to put them in a half filled water jar. Made a beautiful vine.. But yes I eat sweet potatoes .. So I'm going try some of these recipes. Thank you!!!

I LOVE your videos!!! Geeking on the Food Chemistry.

Since the outside is already so starchy with that sweet potato starch mixture, do yall think these would lend themselves to oven baked fries? Im thinking of how the British make their fries (boiled to expose starch on the surface and then baked to crisp up the starch) and it's making me wonder...

Con-vol-vu-lay-sea-ay - I taught myself to read! Also, how does its taxonomy relate to cooking? I don't feel like watching to find out.

Does anyone know the oven time and temperature to make those roasted sweet potatoes? They look so good!

I am still shocked that anybody boils sweet potatoes! It's a crime against food. :-)

It would make my year if Dan would make a video about turnips. My family were turnip farmers but all the turnip knowledge passed with the older generation before I had the chance to pick their brains.

What about the sweet potato pie Dan !!! Pride of the south! Show stopper of all southern holidays!! You slipped Dan ,you slipped.