Peeling Potatoes Ahead of Time

Do you wish to save cooking time tomorrow morning by peeling potatoes the night before, because its thanksgiving tomorrow and you wish cook lot of mashed potatoes for many guests? Or you want to cut down the cooking time by peeling potatoes beforehand, so that you can use the pre-peeled potatoes during the week for cooking? Then try these solutions to save cooking time and prepare your recipes fast.

How to Peel Boiled Potatoes?

Follow these tips and to peel potatoes quickly and efficiently.

• This method is after boiling potatoes. So, take a large pot, which holds all the potatoes you will need for cooking, and boil water in this pot.
• Then score every potato all the way through its circumference, so that you are just cutting through the potato skin.
• One by one start placing the potatoes in the boiling water, and let them boil around 15 minutes times if you have smaller potatoes, the bigger potatoes might take longer cooking time.
• Take another large pot containing ice-cold water.
• Then use a drainer and pour the potatoes and water through it, and quickly immerse the potatoes in the ice water pot for around 15-20 seconds.
• Again drain the potatoes and start peeling the potato skin with your fingers, it will slip off very easily and you won't have to spend much time on peeling the potatoes.
• You can either directly store the potatoes, or mash them and store them in a plastic air tight box and place it inside the refrigerator.
• Make sure you don't add any seasoning like salt or herbs to the potatoes while refrigerating them. Add the seasoning to flavor the potatoes just before making the food recipes.

How to Peel Raw Potatoes?

The problem with non-boiled or raw potatoes is that they tend to turn dark in color. This happens because a substance called solanine is released by the potatoes. Try to avoid buying organically grown potatoes, as they might contain higher amount of solanine. Also, discard potatoes which have cuts or bruises. The above method was for peeling boiled potatoes, but for peeling potatoes before boiling follow the mentioned below tips.

• The first thing is to wash all the potatoes clean, then keep all the washed potatoes in a large bowl.
• Take a chopping board and peeler.
• Hold the potato at its sides with your right hand, and let keep other side of the potato on the chopping board, holding the potato at an inclined angle.
• Now take the peeler in your other hand, and start peeling with a quick right to left down motion. Then change the side of potato and peel off the other half of the potato.
• This way you can practically peel each potato within 10 seconds. Raw potatoes will start releasing the dark substance, so immerse these potatoes in cold water immediately. You can also keep the bowl of water and potatoes in refrigerator, to preserve the potatoes better.
• This method will help you in peel potatoes day before, which are raw. But make sure you don't store them for long and use them next day for making potato recipes.

Make sure you don't store the peeled potatoes for too long. Also, avoid buying ready-made peeled potatoes from the supermarket as you can't be assured of their quality, and neither will they give the taste of home peeled potatoes.