Read more: 8 Baking Sheet Mistakes You Want To Avoid It can be tempting to toss a bunch of randomly cut potatoes or frozen french fries onto a baking tray, and simply pop them in the oven to bake.

No appliance is better suited for quickly crisping up your frozen french fries than the air fryer, but be sure not to skip this one essential step.

Frozen french fries are a convenient snack food and a total crowd-pleaser. All of the hard work is done for you, so all you have to do is retrieve them from the freezer and heat them up.