Air Fryer Potato Wedges

Hi guys, I'm Justin from Cooking with Coit. I specialize in clean comfort cooking and today I'm going to show you how to make these super delicious and very fast air fryer potato wedges. And if you love this video don't forget to hit those like and subscribe buttons. Let's get started. If you've seen any of my other air fryer videos then you know how much I love this machine. It has saved me so much time and it makes food so crispy and delicious. These air fryer potato wedges are the perfect thing to cook in there and best of all they only take 10 minutes to make. First thing we're going to do is peel our russet potatoes. Now we're going to cut our potatoes into wedges. I do one slice to cut it in half and then I angle my blade and make my first wedge about there, my second wedge about here, and then I just take the last thick piece and just cut it in half for my third and fourth wedges. And that should give you a fairly equal wedge size and shape. That is actually quite important that you keep them consistent so that they cook evenly and kind of all around the same time in the air fryer. I've heard that some people like to soak their potatoes in an ice bath before they put put them into the air fryer and that makes them crispier. I don't feel like you really need to do that in the air fryer because it does such a good job of making pretty much anything you put into it crispy. But please let me know in the comments below if you've tried the ice bath technique and if you really believe in it. Next thing we're going to do is toss these potatoes into a bowl and then we're going to season them. I'm using paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper and of course I'm going to coat them with a little bit of olive oil to start. So for the measurement of olive oil I'd say just about a tablespoon should work. And then this is something that I feel like is a really important step. I like to mix up the potato wedges as they are in the olive oil first so that it gives all the seasoning something really nice to stick to. Give these a nice quick toss. Oh flying out. Okay now with everything perfectly coated I'm going to add the seasoning. So first we're going to do the paprika. This is just going to be about a teaspoon but I'm not going to measure. You don't, you can measure if you want to but it's totally fine to do it by feel. Then I'm going to add my garlic powder. Again teaspoon should be totally fine. I like a little more garlic on my potato wedges. Totally up to you. And the last two things we're going to do the salt and pepper. Just a couple big pinches of salt and we're going to add a little bit of pepper too. These potato wedges cooking in the air fryer are just like they're just so fast and I feel like you know when you're cooking potatoes in the oven or if you're boiling them it just takes so long so I just love this air shortcut. We're going to give it one last little toss. Just trying to make sure everything is nicely coated. And now we're going to pop these wedges into the air fryer. You don't have to be too worried about keeping them from overlapping a little bit. If they do overlap that's totally fine. There's more than enough heat in here to make them crispy. So let me show you guys how they should look. There you go. Okay and now we're going to pop in the air fryer. So we are going to cook them at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Some people will say oh you should preheat your air fryer. I've never understood that. I don't think you need to. It's such a small and really hot oven in here that I think that's kind of useless. So we're going to set it for 400 degrees at 10 minutes and then let it do its thing. At the five minute mark that's halfway we're going to remove the basket and just give it a little bit of shake and then pop it back in there to finish them. All right we've hit the five minute mark so let's take them out and give them a little shake. Just toss them up a little bit and then we're going to pop them back in to finish the five minute time. All right 10 minutes is up. Let's take a look and see how we did. Whoa those look so good. Okay but but but here's the thing guys um they are not crispy enough for me. They might be crispy enough for some people but I want extra crispy potatoes so I'm going to pop them back in for just another two minutes at 400 degrees. All right I think they are ready to go now. Oh yes there we go there we go. Super crispy. That's what we're looking for. These look so good. Let me just throw them on this plate and I'm going to show you how I finish them off. Look at how crispy and delicious these are and I know you can't smell these but they smell amazing. I love to top these potato wedges off with a sprinkle of sea salt. Let's do that first. Go and also a little sprinkle of parsley. All right and of course you got to get a little dollop of ketchup. Let's put it right in this corner here. That was the ketchup. It wasn't me. Why does that make me laugh and I'm 40 years old and I'm still laughing at like fart jokes. Anyway okay all right let's give them a try. These look so delicious. I cannot wait to try them but you know what's coming. Before I do if you love this recipe and you want to see more recipes from the air fryer check out my air fryer recipes playlist. Okay let's do a taste test. Here we go. Oh god these are so hot. These are so hot. I really should wait but I can't because I want them so bad. Okay whoa they're so hot but these are so crispy and they are so delicious. If you look you can see how perfectly they're cooked inside and you see the nice crispy skin. Man I just love these potato wedges so much and the air fryer makes them so easy. Makes them so quick. It only took just around 10 minutes. You guys have to make these potato wedges. Please do and I'll see you in the next video.