peeling potatoes
 

Ok I know Im right here need someone to tell me Im not going to be admitted again
would you ? or would you not ?
wash a potato if you were peeling it anyway and then washing the like inside of it ?
why wash if removing peel
please save me from insanity

I would, but only because when I was a kid my mum told me that potatoes are easier to peel when they're damp. Nothing to do with the dirt. Just one of those weird things, I guss.

I don't really think it matters either way, tbh.

To prevent the dirt from getting on the unpealed parts?

mostly, i do not peel my potatoes, but if i do, i do it under running water.

ok fair enough
everyones different i suppose ,thats fine

I wash them if they look really dirty but other than that, I wash them afterwards.
In all fairness, I never peel potato's but on the odd occasion that I do then, that's how I do it :)

I don't wash my potatoes oops!!

well....... my mom always buys washed potatos.... they are cheaper lol
and when we grow them, they come out clean cus the soil is really dry when we dig them up! :D

I rarely ever peel potatoes. On that note, I rarely actually eat potatoes, and when I do I don't peel them - so I wouldn't know really, haha.

If I'm peeling potatoes for cooking, I always peel them first and then wash them.

i#m the same as heartless: peel then rinse. and i did it yesterday for some leek and potato soup :D

if the potato isn't actually covered in an inch of mud then I don't wash it at all.

If its straight out of the ground I wash it first so I can see what I'm doing.

But I don't suppose it matters.

Mostly I fill the washing up bowl part way up with water, peel the potatoes in that (because you can rinse the peeler so it peels easier). If the potatoes were really dirty I'd rinse them off after peeling them.

I normally buy the washed ones so I don't wash them

You should come and live at my house. Any peculiarities you think you have with food will soon be abolished when you whitness the madness of my fathers wife!

Washing tatos is fine, washing mushrooms is baaaaaad!

Sounds like my dad, you MUST wash the carrots before and after you peel them even if you bought them pre-washed. He also washes onions which is plain odd.
Personally I hardly wash anything unless its got mud on it, you're going to peel off the dirt and then boil it anyhow right?

My thumb is usually the only cleaner i use!

That's what I do.

Don't know why, just the way my mum does it.

Same here, I just do it that way because my Mom does :)