• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    23 hours ago

    I eat the skins, it’s the most nutritious part actually.

    It’s dumb to remove it, it doesn’t taste bad, it doesn’t have a weird texture. There is no reason to remove the skins.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      22 hours ago

      They’re delicious on fresh potatoes. Like it’s not just more nutritious to leave the skins on, it tastes better. But I live in a cold climate so in the winter you’d usually be eating potatoes harvested in autumn at the latest, but possibly summer. The skins are nowhere near as nice then.

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    A trick I learned working in a diner is to boil em a bit. Skin comes right off with a scrape no problem.

    The real trick is to keep the skin on. That shit is delicious. The fuck you taking the skin off for?

    • boonhet@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Fresh potatoes, especially homegrown? Skin is delicious. Last year’s potatoes from the store? Ehhh no.

      I do the polygons but mostly because it’s very quick

    • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      My spouse kept insisting I peel the potatoes I used for home fries (not sure if there’s another name for them, but cut the potatoes into 10-15mm chunks and cook them in a pan with oil or butter with a lid for a bit to soften them up and then raise the temp to brown the outside, I always season with garlic) until one day I “forgot” the peeler while camping and it was either try it or go hungry. Surprise surprise, they loved it

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      1 day ago

      The fuck you taking the skin off for?

      Sometimed I want mashed potatoes. Otherwise the skin stays on.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yes, but the anime episode of you peeling potatoes also made a bunch of kids have seizures, too.