The perfect potato
For someone who spent ten years as a veggie I have eaten a lot of meat recently. So tonight's dinner is good and simple. Baked potato.
But not any old baked potato. It is true I am ever so slightly obsessed with Nigel Slater but the man is God.
Once the potato is cooked:
Remove immediately [from the oven] and hit it with the side of your hand (wrapped in a tea towel if you would rather not burn yourself), hard enough to split the skin but not so hard that you re-decorate the kitchen. A plume of steam will leave the potato with a rush, leaving the inside a mass of light, powdery, moist fluff. This is where you get the butter out.
But not any old baked potato. It is true I am ever so slightly obsessed with Nigel Slater but the man is God.
Once the potato is cooked:
Remove immediately [from the oven] and hit it with the side of your hand (wrapped in a tea towel if you would rather not burn yourself), hard enough to split the skin but not so hard that you re-decorate the kitchen. A plume of steam will leave the potato with a rush, leaving the inside a mass of light, powdery, moist fluff. This is where you get the butter out.
posted by ems at 10:40 AM
2 Comments:
I hadn't thought of whacking my baked potatoes. I'll have to try it out sometime...!
I haven't had a baked spud in ages. What did you put on it. I like baked beans or coleslaw. I used Nigel Slater's batter recipe for toad in the hole tonight - was lovely.
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