• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    8 days ago

    I eat the skins, it’s the most nutritious part actually.

    It’s dumb to remove it, it doesn’t taste bad, it doesn’t have a weird texture. There is no reason to remove the skins.

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      8 days ago

      They’re delicious on fresh potatoes. Like it’s not just more nutritious to leave the skins on, it tastes better. But I live in a cold climate so in the winter you’d usually be eating potatoes harvested in autumn at the latest, but possibly summer. The skins are nowhere near as nice then.

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        7 days ago

        Give am a scrub and a wash to clean off most of the dirt and you’re golden. Microbes are on everything everywhere; whatever the scrub and rinse doesn’t remove, the cooking will.

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        7 days ago

        Most natural microbes on fruit and vegetables are good for the microbiome.

        But potatoes have to be cooked for a long time, so that’s not an issue. Dirt is washed off.