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- Hey everybody, it's Bobby,
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and today we are going to make sweet potato chips.
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or the people in my family, we love potatoes.
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I love white potatoes.
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I love the little red potatoes, the fingerling potatoes,
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But I think that my favorite is going to be sweet potatoes.
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We eat lots of 'em at my house,
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and we eat them all sorts of ways.
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Sometimes we'll bake 'em in the oven
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and just put a little cinnamon
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and butter on 'em, and they're fantastic that way.
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But sometimes you need to just shake it
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up and do something different.
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So, today, I'm gonna make sweet potato rings,
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and we're going to do them in our Paula Deen air fryer.
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This is an awesome recipe.
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Really simple, really quick.
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And, if you want a nice sort
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of snack for yourself or for your kids.
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These are great for the kids, except for they're spicy.
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We're gonna use a little cayenne pepper, so,
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if you wanna make something for the kids,
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just maybe back off the cayenne a bit, and these are great.
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So it's gonna come out sort of like a potato chip.
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We'll start with some olive oil.
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Couple of tablespoons of olive oil.
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This is fresh, it's never been used.
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- [Producer 1] Would've helped if I'd done that for you.
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Spanish has reminded me
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that we just got back, my family and I, just got back.
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Little salt and pepper, little quarter teaspoon
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of salt and a quarter teaspoon of pepper.
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We just got back from Miami,
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my wife and kids and I, did.
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And a little cayenne.
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Okay, like I said, if you wanted to make this and share
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with your kids, just maybe back off the cayenne just a bit.
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I'm gonna use one teaspoon of cayenne.
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And there's the other half.
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We just got back from Miami,
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my family and I, we went down to Miami
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for my wife's grandmother's 90th birthday.
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We went to Key Biscayne, Florida,
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and we had the most fun.
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My wife is from Venezuela,
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but she moved to America when she was in college.
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She came to America to get her master's degree,
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and then she moved away to Chicago.
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And I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Let me come to Chicago and get you and bring you back.
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I had met her, and we had dated, and she left,
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and I was just like, oh my god, I can't deal with it.
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So I went and got her from Chicago,
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brought her back to Savannah.
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We got married, she got her citizenship.
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We had these three beautiful children together,
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I don't know why I'm telling you that,
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all just to say that we went to Miami
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for a 90th birthday for her grandmother.
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And, oh, here's the thing.
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I guess, here's what I'm getting at.
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My wife speaks nothing but Spanish to our kids at our house.
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So they're totally bilingual, they speak Spanish perfectly,
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and they speak English perfectly
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'cause they know that dad is speaking English,
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and that mom's speaking Spanish.
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So we went down to Key Biscayne,
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and we were with all of her family.
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Everybody came for this 90th birthday party,
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and they were all speaking Spanish together
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But anybody who's ever been to Miami, Key Biscayne.
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On our way back, we stopped at the Kennedy Space Center.
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If you've never been there, we went,
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took the kids to Kennedy Space Center,
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and we had the most awesome time.
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And this is a great time of year
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to travel, so you can, we drove, too, by the way, so-
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- All the way to Miami. - 500 miles to Miami
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and 500 miles back with-
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- With three four-year-olds in the car.
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So, anyhow, if you get a chance, go to Key Biscayne,
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and also go to the Kennedy Space Center.
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They're fantastic places to visit.
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These sweet potatoes look so good.
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They are covered in our olive oil, in our salt,
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pepper, and cayenne mix.
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And I'm just gonna put 'em right into the air fryer.
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- [Producer 1] Now that is hot, so...
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(air fryer clattering)
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- Just gonna pop 'em right in, and spread 'em out.
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Make sure they got a little bit of space between 'em.
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Ed, if you can see it.
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Just gonna space 'em a little bit.
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(container clattering)
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And what I usually do when I'm cooking stuff
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in the air fryer is, after a few minutes, I'll just pull it
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out and just shake the air fryer a little bit
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and make sure everything spreads some.
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These are going to be delectable,
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and they would be good as a side to,
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I don't know, just about anything.
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Alright, so into the air fryer,
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for, we'll check 'em in about 10 minutes.
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Just wanna make sure they don't burn.
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I'm gonna cook 'em hot.
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It's already on, so we'll set our timer.
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- [Producer 1] Minus it.
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Uh-uh, whoa, uh, whoa.
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- [Producer 1] It's trying to be smart.
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- It's very smart, here we go, 10 minutes.
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So I'll see you in 10 minutes.
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Sweet potato chips are in the air fryer.
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They've been in for about 10, maybe 12 minutes,
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so let's check 'em out and see how they look.
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I had 'em on 400, man, they look fantastic.
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Had 'em on 400 degrees.
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I need a little pair of tongs.
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- [Producer 1] Right on that side.
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- Right on that side.
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There's a plate right here.
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They are just the perfect amount of soft and crispy.
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You like sweet potato chips?
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I'm a potato guy, though.
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They smell really good.
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They're hot, but I'm gonna take one for the team
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and try 'em anyway, for you guys.
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- [Producer 1] I would like 'em with cinnamon sugar.
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- With, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, well-
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- [Producer 1] Instead of this cayenne.
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How about you? - Well-
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- [Producer 2] Could add cinnamon still.
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- [Producer 1] Oh, you could, really, with the cayenne, too.
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- You certainly could, yeah,
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that's what I was just thinking is
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you could dust 'em with a little cinnamon,
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if you wanted to at this point.
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Or you could put a little bit
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of butter on 'em if you wanted to.
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But I think what I'm gonna do is just a little bit
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of coarse salt right on the top of 'em.
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Sweet potato chips with a little cayenne.
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Mm, mm-hmm, so, so good.
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- Getting the cayenne? - Hello, cayenne.
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(laughs) There's a teaspoon to cayenne, too.
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You can dial it back a little bit
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if you want to, but I like spicy.
