Sunday, June 29, 2014

Videos: Potato Peeling and High Ball Stepper



As a suggestion, play both videos simultaneously and experience what you may get out of it.


16 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

It took me forever to train him, and our squirrel can't peel potatoes nearly as fast, so I'm feeling like kind of an idiot that I never thought of that.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

That potato technique is very cool. Why didn't WE know about this when we had a smoked food deli. We served a lot of fries with our bbq diners (to go).....and made them fresh. No frozen pre made fries for us! That would have been so very useful.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Play both videos together.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

You could take that potato skin whey and ferment it too (although it would probably need some more sugar).

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Potato skins are good for you. I just mash them up all together.

Synova said...

DBQ, what's the trick for doing fries from fresh potatoes that aren't soggy awful heaps of greasy limp potatoes?

I can't do them at home, and I've tried. And I've had "we make our fries fresh!" fries at restaurants that were nasty limp greasy burned things too.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Synova, Preparation is the key to perfect fries…

Synova said...

Ah... thank you. I'd known they were supposed to be rinsed (hadn't heard soaked, but that makes more sense) to get some of the starch out, but frying them twice was just something I thought I heard once in passing on a Food Network show. "These are twice fried, right?" "Always." And moving on...

Rabel said...

Lem is manipulating our emotions. That's OK because we agreed to that when we checked the TOS agreement for blogger.

The emotional effect, for me, is an intense desire to eat a potato pancake.

deborah said...

Jack White is outrageous. Thanks Lem.

Rabel said...

The Evi L one said preparation is the key. Yes, but also double frying.

Advice from an expert.

Michael Haz said...

Why not just leave the skins on the spuds? The skin is the best part.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

I am with michael, I leave on the skins fried, mashed, or roasted.

Dumb Plumber said...

@Synova

We used a commercial deep fryer and peanut oil. No other oil works as well. The fries need to be very dry and the oil very hot. And soaking them for a bit in ice water before getting them really dry helps too.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Well, darn. I used my husbands account again. But same thing applies for the fries.

I don't like the skin on the potatoes for french fries, but in my mashed potatoes using the little red potatoes, I leave the skins on. Lots of roasted garlic and some sour cream along with the milk or half and half. Of course....copious amounts of salt.

Meade said...

"I used my husbands account again."

Tsk tsk. The gays at least marry only one at a time.