On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:56:38 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>Did you use coarse salt or regular table salt? Coarse kosher or sea salt
>makes a "dramatic" difference. As to your oversalting them, table salt
>would definitely tend to give an oversalted result.

The salt was "kosher".... so I guess you could call it coarse.
>
>I typically rub the potatoes generously with Crisco, then coat with a
>mixture of coarse salt, cracked black peppercorns, and granulated garlic.

Basically, that's what I did but used EVOO instead of Crisco. I
wasn't impressed. I won't do it again.



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