Do you eat the entire baked potato ? Skin and all ? (restaurants, fast food)
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I bake my potatoes on high heat on the oven rack (no foil ) so that the peels are papery and the outer potato is brown. The inside is fluffy. This can be dangerous because it can cause the potato to explode. Some people prick them before baking but I think this makes them dry. I eat the whole potato drenched in butter and sour cream. A side of spinach makes a meal.
Restaurant baked potatos, wrapped in foil and held in a steamer, are a different dish altogether. I would rather have fries.
I only eat the skin if I made the potato at home because I know I have cleaned it thoroughly. Not so when eating out.
Eh, restaurants probably have stricter standards about washing produce than I do at home. And anyway, by the time the potato has been in the oven for an hour, any germs are deader than dead. So I just eat the whole thing and don't worry about it at all.
Yes I eat the skin, & then I will also eat husbands leftover skin, because he won't eat his lol I will also eat the restaurant skins, becasue even if it was not scrubbed, a bit of dirt is good for us.
I'm an old hippie and into natural org things...of course, I eat it and haven't peeled a potato since , well ever...and would never boil water soluble vitamins out of vegetables either.
As an FYI, whether they turn out a good baked potato or not, restaurant kitchens are MUCH cleaner than home kitchens.
But do they actually wash the dirt off each potato? I'm not really into eating dirt even if it has been baked until it's germ free. Considering I've bitten into baked potatoes that have had an odd bit of 'crunch' I tend to think the potatoes aren't always thoroughly washed to remove the dirt that sometimes sticks to the skins.
I have a stomach the size of a pea, so sometimes I don't have room for the skin. If it has been slathered with olive oil, and baked in the oven, the peel is the best part.
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