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Like, I get comments from people telling me it's weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.

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[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The toxins exist throughout the skin, but in smaller concentration than in the sprouts and green parts. Doesn't mean that the skin is inherently unsafe to eat, but you probably should peel it if you eat potatoes regulary, or if you're cooking for children, old people or someone immunocompromised.

[-] danhakimi@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Toxins exist in the water you drink and the air you breathe, unless you distill the water to the point of actually being dangerous to consume.

A small concentration of toxins is absolutely unavoidable. The presence in potato skins is pretty negligible.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago

I think cooking goes a long way to dealing with the toxins, also. Raw potatoes are very toxic.

[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, alcaloids are stable under heat, that's why you should also discard the water when cooking potatoes with skin.

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

you seem knowledgeable about potatoes. Is it okay to let the water cool down and water outside plants with it?

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know, but if you let it sit on your stove for a few days you can develop a really impressive stink!

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

try it after you boiled it together with some brocolli

[-] AAA@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Not that I ever reused the potato cooking water, but TIL. Thank you.

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