Entire fast-food empires have been built around the french fry.
But companies still continue to pursue perfection -- as in, a better-for-you fry.
The immodestly named Perfect Fry company, out of Calgary, claims to have nailed it.
At the National Restaurant Association show at McCormick Place, the company is showing off its new "Spin Fresh"-- a 17-inch-wide countertop fryer that it says uses centrifugal force to spin off a third of the oil and calories from just-fried fries, chicken nuggets and the like -- but which also retrieves the oil so it can be reused.
Perfect Fry acquired the technology;in turn, Perfect Fry was just acquired by Elgin's Middleby Corp., maker of the Turbochef ovens used by Starbucks to heat its breakfast sandwiches and pastries
