On 7/17/2011 4:06 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2011-07-17, > wrote:
>
>> The texture is better.
>
> This I gotta hear. Please explain.
>
> My opinion:
> When you boil a potato, the outside cooks before
> than the inside, unless you actually believe the potato cooks evenly
> from the very outside to the center, equally. Do you? So, by time
> the center is cooked, the outside is cooked way more than the center.
> Is there anyone who doesn't believe this? Anyway, when cooking
> chunks, the difference between how much the outside versus the inside
> is cooked, is much less. If anything, by time the center of a whole
> potato is thoroughly cooked, the outside is overcooked, to the point
> of soggy and falling apart. Is there anyone here not capable of
> grasping this concept?
>
> nb


I grasp it.

In Russia they serve their boiled potatoes whole or halve the giant ones.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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