On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:08:24 -0400, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>sidenote: My mother taught us to never use a knife to cut our baked
>potatoes open as the knife compressed the potato inside. She taught us
>to make repeated pokes with the tines of our fork, pricking it to make a
>cross cut "line" then squeezing it open.


The fork method was for english muffins. You can use a knife and
squeeze potatoes to open. Heck, you can cut them in half with a knife
and squeeze. Same effect.

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