If you like your fries crispy, crinkle cut might be just the fry to suit your taste. Waffle-cut fries, also known as crinkle-cut fries, are made from potatoes that have been cut into a waffle shape, creating a lot of ridges and grooves. They are also deep-fried and have a crispy texture. According to The Frozen Biscuit, the crinkle-cut shape gives fries more surface area, increasing the amount of crispiness the outside of the fry can have per bite. It also creates more places for salt and dipping sauces to adhere. The crinkle cut’s unique shape keeps it crunchier for longer, staving off sogginess.

Those rigid nooks provide heightened scooping ability for ketchup, in the same way, that Tostitos scoops tortilla chips work with queso. Crinkle-cutting French fries may improve their crispiness, as well as their ability to retain dipping sauce. These crinkle-cut potatoes come with 30 % less fat and 20 % fewer calories than their regular fry option, and reportedly 40 % less fat and 30 % add calories: fewer calories than McDonald’s famous fries.