i dont wanna trash nobodys cooking skills but you really gotta parcook fries. the goal is for the first partial cook to cook the inside of the potato so its nice and fluffy inside. you take the fries out of the oil and let them cool down and freeze them overnight. then you can fry them again to get the nice maillard reaction on the outside, so you get that 'snap'
nothing makes me

more than when people throw some raw ass wet potatoes into oil and fry them until theyre lifeless. those are the WOAT french fries. places like five guys do that. youre eating burnt undercooked potatoes lol
you can also parcook the fries via blanching. drop the sliced potatoes into salty boiling water for a few minutes, then drop immediately into an ice water bath to blanch and stop the cooking. freeze the slices, then deep fry them later
please stop throwing raw potatoes into deep fryers people
good god