Anyone use baked potatoes for potato salad? (undercooked, homemade, leftover)
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I love homemade potato salad but hated to boil potatoes. When boiling the potatoes, they would split open and some were done while others overdone. Plus I hate to heat up the house by boiling anything in the summer. Then I started putting individual potatoes in a fold over sandwich bag and baking them in the microwave. Put all the potatoes in at once. Turned them on for 6 minutes for the intital "cook". Then I would take out the biggest and the smallest and being careful of the captured steam, test them with a small blade paring knife. I put them back in for a couple more minutes and continued to get them out and test them. I try to use similar size potatoes and always reach for the smaller ones when I reach in to the potato bag in order to get them done faster.
After the knife shows they are done, I take the sandwich bag off and let them cool and peel after the potatoes are cool. Quick and easy and cooler way to make homemade potato salad! Now I like the taste of the baked potatoes better than when I used boiled potatoes.
UGH!! My daughter and SIL just can't seem to get potatoes done. Daughter wants to leave skins on. I don't like my potato salad mucked up with skins ...even new potato skins. Nothing could be easier....peel potatoes first it's not hard. 1/2 or 1/4 them and throw in boiling water lightly salted if you like. Boil until a knife test shows they are as cooked as you like. You don't want potatoes to be mush for potato salad but I hate undercooked potatoes. Nothing wrong with baked potatoes either (or microwaved).
P.S you're making way to big a deal out of cooking potatoes...
UGH!! My daughter and SIL just can't seem to get potatoes done. Daughter wants to leave skins on. I don't like my potato salad mucked up with skins ...even new potato skins. Nothing could be easier....peel potatoes first it's not hard. 1/2 or 1/4 them and throw in boiling water lightly salted if you like. Boil until a knife test shows they are as cooked as you like. You don't want potatoes to be mush for potato salad but I hate undercooked potatoes. Nothing wrong with baked potatoes either (or microwaved).
P.S you're making way to big a deal out of cooking potatoes...
BTW, this was aimed more at my daughter and her hubby!
That does sound like a good way to prepare them, but I really don't mind doing them on the stove; yes, we usually cube them before cooking or we cut them in pieces at least and I usually boil the eggs at the same time. I do it early in the morning, let them set for an hour or so after they have cooked and then make the salad. I have been doing this for 60 years or close anyway.
Nothing wrong with baking or M/W the potatoes. But, I think if boiled just right they will stay together better. Actually, I suppose if cooked just right using any method they'd be good. I do love my potato salad warm though. Cold is yuk! IMO....
Cut them into the desired shape before boiling, they will take less than half the time. Boiling them lets you keep poking them with a fork, to make sure you get them off the heat when they are just the right consistency.
I just make potato salad with leftover mashed potatoes.
I use red potatoes for my salads and leave the skins on where as my mom uses regular potatoes and peels the skin off. To each his own I guess.
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My daughter and SIL just can't seem to get potatoes done. Daughter wants to leave skins on. I don't like my potato salad mucked up with skins ...even new potato skins. Nothing could be easier....peel potatoes first it's not hard. 1/2 or 1/4 them and throw in boiling water lightly salted if you like. Boil until a knife test shows they are as cooked as you like. You don't want potatoes to be mush for potato salad but I hate undercooked potatoes. Nothing wrong with baked potatoes either (or microwaved).
I do love my potato salad warm though. Cold is yuk! IMO....
