{"id":10291,"date":"2016-03-24T04:54:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T04:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2023-06-03T20:05:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T03:05:28","slug":"tips-and-tricks-peeling-a-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tips-and-tricks-peeling-a-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips:  _MISC &#8211; MOVE AROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Peeling lots and lots of potatoes<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Score the potato around the equator<\/li>\n<li>Boil the potato for 3-4 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Plunge in ice water<\/li>\n<li>Skin should slide off<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Keeping food Warm<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To keep served food warm, heat your plates in a 200\u00ba oven before serving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Frying and Browning<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For a nice brown cheese sandwich use mayonnaise rather than butter<\/li>\n<li>Put a metal bowl over top of your cooking grilled sandwich with a drop of water to melt the cheese and keep the bread soft.<\/li>\n<li>To reheat fries bring up to room temperature, put on wire rack, spray with oil, bake at 400\u00ba until browned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Salads<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dress the SIDE of your salad bowl to more evenly coat your salad leaves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pasta<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t start your hot pasta water with hot water from the tap.&nbsp; This includes MUCH more dissolved solids than cold water.<\/li>\n<li>While on the subject, don&#8217;t start your pasta in non-boiling water.&nbsp; It changes the texture and can make it gummy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Butter and Oil<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you run out of butter, just use canola oil in a 1 to 1 ratio.&nbsp; The fats in the oil behaves exactly like melted butter.<\/li>\n<li>Use old toilet paper rolls to scoop up the congealed grease from your pan.&nbsp; These can then be used as fire starter logs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Food Preparation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Spread sour cream on a tortilla.&nbsp; Add lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and meat.&nbsp; No wet stuff.<\/li>\n<li>To peel ginger, use a spoon and scrape the skin off<\/li>\n<li>Old eggs float.&nbsp; Fresh eggs will sink.&nbsp; This is because of the gasses produced as it begins to spoil.&nbsp; If an egg floats, do not eat it.<\/li>\n<li>To truss meat, use a double loop on your first knot, and it will hold itself.<\/li>\n<li>Cook your roast on a bed of mirpoix veggies:&nbsp; carrot, onion, celery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peeling lots and lots of potatoes Score the potato around the equator Boil the potato for 3-4 minutes Plunge in ice water Skin should slide off Keeping food Warm To keep served food warm, heat your plates in a 200\u00ba oven before serving Frying and Browning For a nice brown cheese sandwich use mayonnaise rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tips-and-tricks-peeling-a-potato\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tips:  _MISC &#8211; MOVE AROUND&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks-and-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22920,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/22920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}