How to Peel a Potato
Starring Dawn Wells [Maryanne]
This is really kewl!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4W0qIPJmoohmm. what would you want with a whole boiled potato? peel the fucker normally, chop it up and be done in 5 minutes. Time is money.
I knew that trick already. It's much faster to peel and cut a cooked potato in than it is to peel then cut raw potatoes.
You've eliminated all the prep time plus the potato is far superior tasting than the peel cut and boil method.
I agree with Mon. This is re-inventing the wheel in an eight sided way.
Oh great, .....I HATE Maryanne now.
goddammit.
I always did hate that perky little hick. :lol:
If she knows so damn much about potatos, why didn't she build a potato boat and get them off that stupid island?
I just hate the way she says Idough-ho-powtaytow
....and she looks like Robert Plant now.
I knew that trick already. It's much faster to peel and cut a cooked potato in than it is to peel then cut raw potatoes.
You've eliminated all the prep time plus the potato is far superior tasting than the peel cut and boil method.
but you had to boil it for 15 minutes. Waste of energy and time. Unless you already murder your potatoes that way.
I agree with Mon. This is re-inventing the wheel in an eight sided way.
I keep reading this as eight eyeded as in potato eyes.:3_eyes:
but you had to boil it for 15 minutes. Waste of energy and time. Unless you already murder your potatoes that way.
What energy? The water boils the potato. You want to save 10 minutes on using your range? I can understand that but as far as a waste of time the water is doing all the work I can be doing something else besides peeling and chopping.
If you don't believe it don't try to convince me, try it yourself.
I think arguing with you about how to boil a fucking potato is a bigger waste of time.
Keeping the water boiling for an additional ten minutes requires the burning of additional fuel. It is wasteful and stupid when the end result is exactly the same either way.
lol @ lj
@ glatt. I am putting you on report for using contradictions and for putting small animals in your freezer....so there ...:P
What contradictions? And the small animals deserved it.
White potatoes are crap anyway, just eat a bowl of sugar - no boiling or peeling required.
True. ( edit- Because of the sugar ) We eat red or gold and they boil fine and you don't even need to peel them although roasted is better.
It takes waayy more energy to roast a potato if any energy conservationist wants to debate the evils of roasted reds now.
Taters aren't bad: they has Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Folate, dietary fiber and several important trace minerals.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2770/2Taters aren't bad: they has Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Folate, dietary fiber and several important trace minerals.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2770/2
I think all of that is in the skin (the part being tossed out, here). The "meat" of the potato is just like eating spoonfuls of sugar.
Ya even wheb you bake them instead of boiling/peeling, the C is lost when you cut them open. According to my home ec teaher anyway...
Yeah I usually bake 'em in the microwave.
[size=1]I'm not buyin' yer home ec teach's theory though... doesn't seem plausible[/size]
I think the skin is the best part...soaked in a little butter...mmmmm.
Potatoes Rule. They each have individual strengths and weaknesses and there is not a single way to prepare them that suits all varieties. Soem make better fries, some are better boiled, etc.
Everyone who want to disparage the awesome majesty of the potato can go suck a free range egg.
Cretins and Philistines.
Let's see spoonfuls of sugar braised in garlic, olive oil, and fresh rosemary, WHO'S YOUR GOD NOW?
WHO'S YOUR GOD NOW?
Spud! Spud! Spud! All hail Spud!
Yeah I usually bake 'em in the microwave.
[SIZE=1]I'm not buyin' yer home ec teach's theory though... doesn't seem plausible[/SIZE]
My memory of the info is that the C evaporated/oxidized when a hot baked potato was cut open. I always wondered if it was retained if you let them cool first but never cared enough to google - till now.
The
wiki page on bakes potatoes says
Once a potato has been baked, some people discard the skin and eat only the softer and moister interior, while others enjoy the taste and texture of the crispy skin. From a nutrition standpoint, a large percentage of the vitamins, minerals, and trace elements in a potato are found within or immediately below the skin. Potatoes baked in their skins may lose between 20 to 40% of their Vitamin C content because heating in air is slow and vitamin inactivation can continue for a long time. Small potatoes bake more quickly than large ones and therefore retain more of their Vitamin C.[2
Says here that boiling in the skin and adding 1% table salt to the water seems to allow the least C loss, but I don't think they took microwaving into account.
I've read that vitamin C can withstand 10 minutes of boiling temperature. After that, it's sayonara, baby.
What if I told you that I am just too lazy to find it and you'll have to take my word for it. I'd still like to see the original research that shows "all the vitamins are in or near the peel" I think that was some BS invented by some overworked mom who didn't want to peel another fucking apple for her kids.
Huh. I was thinking "isn't that where are the poison is too?". Apparently only if green.
Yeah, green is bad news. I just got back from a fascinating trip to wikipedia's page on Vitamin C.
no news about how long you can cook it though. Skip oranges though.
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What energy? The water boils the potato. .
Keeping the water boiling for an additional ten minutes requires the burning of additional fuel. It is wasteful and stupid when the end result is exactly the same either way.
that energy. :rolleyes: Or perhaps you just need to glance at the pan to get water to boil?.... :p:
Thanks to Classicman for alerting me to this thread. Maryanne can peel my spud anytime she wants.
Okay, being the Spudman, I'm going to weigh in now before thread drift happens, and a lot of fiction is taken as truth.
First, potatoes are evil, so they deserve to be boiled and flayed.
Second, There are no vitamins in the skin. Squirell was almost onto the truth. It was an invented legend to stop people from enjoying the full flavor of the potato. The only thing the skins have in them is behavioral modification compounds, put there by the government to control the masses. This has been proved many times, but the web pages mysteriously disappear.
As you were.
Yo spud - where ya been? fightin' the fight?
Yeah, they're everywhere now, ever since healthcare bill passed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgf_odxpCoQBeside rice, potatoes are cultivated and eaten by almost every culture on Earth. They grow almost anywhere, and are a very hardy plant. They are consumed in a great variety of forms, and are an ingredient of countless dishes. Now, close your eyes and visualize a potato.
(really do this and then go on)
What feelings did that image evoke? Hunger? A recipe idea? A painful and deeply embarrassing sexual experience? Think deeper. I will bet that somewhere, profoundly inside, that potato evoked some sense of well-being - that in its essence, a potato is to us in whatever small way, a thing whose presence comforts us.
Why should we be comforted by the idea of a potato? That’s ridiculous, as if it’s some idol to be worshiped. But then, consider this: A power mad country, who we all know who we’re talking about, gains control of the entire globe. They solve all hunger problems, so that no person shall ever go hungry again, but in the face of this new order, they also decree that all potatoes shall be banished from the Earth, wiped clean as by the hand of God.
A huge campaign of destruction would ensue. To grow them would be punishable by death. Now, go to that place of comfort the potato afforded you a moment ago and ask yourself “would you fight back”? Would you fight for the potatoes? And you know what? I think you would. Therefore, you must ask yourself, why would I fight an underground partisan campaign, potentially gaining a French accent, to defend potatoes? Because ironically, the “mad” government is right. Potatoes are everywhere man. We do not cultivate potatoes, they train us to aid in the expansion of their numbers until they may strike at humanity. There is, in a word – a potato conspiracy...
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fun looking recipe using whole boiled potatoes: I'm definitely going to try these!
Crash Hot PotatoesOh, I'm going to try those too!
[COLOR="PaleTurquoise"]but they still have their skins on![/COLOR]
I like clothed potatos and nekkid potatos both the same.
how about your men? And your hobos?
I just made these potatoes. They're good! I could improve upon it: drizzled too much olive oil and I didn't have a paint brush so I could do better at just coating the top. I didn't have a potato smasher thingy so I just split them and smushed them with a glass then arranged it better with a fork.
They were the yum.
haven't made them yet, but def going to; would be great for kids!
fun looking recipe using whole boiled potatoes: I'm definitely going to try these!
Crash Hot Potatoes
They look great. :thumb: