Subject: How to peel cooked potatoes in one shot ( Video-Clip from Japan ) this is so cool ****
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking

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From: Hansi (fufko at sbcglobal.net)
Date: 23 Feb 2006 00:19:49 -0800
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There is a Video-Clip from Japan, How to peel cooked potatoes in one shot! That is the coolest trick I have ever seen. I Indefinitely going to try this.
Check It Out.

http://www.jumpingpixels.com/ [site dead, but it only linked to YouTube video]

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From: Jens Arne Maennig (maennig0602 at cricetus.com)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:16:57 +0100
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Hansi wrote:
> There is a Video-Clip from Japan, How to peel cooked potatoes in one
> shot ! That is the coolest trick I have ever seen.

Cute. The fast way to get there is
http://www.youtube.com/player.swf?video_id=wLMlvPszwQA [dead]
[Webmaster note: It appears the video was removed due to terms of use violation.]

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From: HiTech RedNeck (hitechCOLOR-OF-BLOODneck at ameritech.net)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:42:58 GMT
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Jens Arne Maennig wrote:
> Cute. The fast way to get there is
> http://www.youtube.com/player.swf?video_id=wLMlvPszwQA [dead]

Looks like:
(1) remove eyes, and with knife, slit potato skin around the middle before boiling
(2) plunge boiled potato in ice water (they use a ladle, but a slotted spoon would probably transfer less hot water into the ice water)
(3) after sitting ??? time in ice water (don't speak Japanese... 30 seconds?) take it out and pull skin off both ends.

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From: ppnerkDELETETHIS at yahoo.com (Phred)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:06:16 GMT
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HiTech RedNeck wrote:
>Looks like:
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>(1) remove eyes, and with knife, slit potato skin around the middle before
>boiling
>(2) plunge boiled potato in ice water (they use a ladle, but a slotted spoon
>would probably transfer less hot water into the ice water)
>(3) after sitting ??? time in ice water (don't speak Japanese... 30
>seconds?) take it out and pull skin off both ends.

Judging by the way the young lady is counting [reminds me of the old joke about the Irish contraceptive] I'd say it was 10 seconds in ice water. (There's a '10' hidden in the subtitle about that time too.)

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From: notbob (notbob at nothome.com)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:50:38 -0600
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Hansi wrote:
> There is a Video-Clip from Japan, How to peel cooked potatoes in one
> shot !

But, who boils whole potatoes? Takes forever and unless using waxy potato, the outside will be mush by time the inside is cooked. I make mashed potatoes by cutting into 1" to 1-1/2" cubes and boiling. Cooks in about ten minutes.

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From: Dee Randall (deedovey at shentel.net)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:57:44 -0500
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notbob wrote:
> But, who boils whole potatoes? Takes forever and unless using waxy
> potato, the outside will be mush by time the inside is cooked. I make
> mashed potatoes by cutting into 1" to 1-1/2" cubes and boiling. Cooks
> in about ten minutes.

I've always cooked potatoes, no matter what the size or type, or cut, for 20 minutes.
But, perhaps Japanese like to 'present' a whole potato on a plate more than we do. Maybe they think the potatoes in a can are cute and are trying to duplicate them.
Who knows.
Dee Dee

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From: grawun (grawun at comcast.net)
Date: 23 Feb 2006 13:48:54 -0800
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I boil potatoes when I am going to make potato salad. Don't you?