You can peel potatoes raw or cooked. We explain which variant you should prefer and how you can easily peel potatoes in this tip on cooking.
Peel potatoes – raw or cooked
The easiest way to peel raw potatoes is with a peeler.
– However, it makes much more sense to remove the skin only after cooking. The skin acts like a protective cover.
– When cooking the tubers with the skin, fewer vitamins and other healthy ingredients of the potato are lost.
– Theoretically, you can also eat the skin of the potato. Among other things, it contains plenty of dietary fibre.
However, you should make sure that there are no green spots on the potato. In addition, it should not germinate. In addition, you should only eat the skin of ripe potatoes.
– There is a lot of toxic solanine in unripe potatoes. The same applies to the green parts of the potatoes just mentioned.
– These toxins are water-soluble, so they pass into the cooking water during cooking. Nevertheless, you should always cut out the green parts before cooking if you plan to eat the skin as well.
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How to peel cooked potatoes easily
As already mentioned, the skin keeps the healthy ingredients of the potato in the tuber during cooking, so you should only peel potatoes after cooking.
– To make this easy, score the skin lightly and thinly all around the thickest part with a sharp knife before cooking.
– Then cook the potatoes as usual until they are done.
– When cooked, the skin will come off the tuber far enough that you can easily pull it off with your finger afterwards.
– It is even easier to remove the skin if you rinse the cooked potatoes in ice water for about ten seconds.
