Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.

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I think cooking goes a long way to dealing with the toxins, also. Raw potatoes are very toxic.

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No, alcaloids are stable under heat, that’s why you should also discard the water when cooking potatoes with skin.

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you seem knowledgeable about potatoes. Is it okay to let the water cool down and water outside plants with it?

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I don’t know, but if you let it sit on your stove for a few days you can develop a really impressive stink!

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Not that I ever reused the potato cooking water, but TIL. Thank you.

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