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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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[โ€“] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[โ€“] AAA@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

try it after you boiled it together with some brocolli