Mastering how to cook potatoes is super crucial since they are very affordable and versatile. If you want to be more like a professional chef, these are the ways to get your potatoes up to the highest standard.
Salt
Salt is something that every food needs, but with potatoes, it’s a different story completely. Especially if you’re frying potatoes in any way, shape, or form, you need to be salting them well. A lot of people when they fry potatoes they don’t know that they need to salt them after they’ve come out of the oil, but if you don’t you’ll have a severely underseasoned dish.
Baked Potato
Although a baked potato seems like a really straightforward way to cook a potato, a lot of people don’t really know how to make it properly. When you’re done cooking a baked potato, the inside should almost be like mashed potatoes, which is the sign of a truly good baked potato. Luckily, it’s easy to do!
Just prick the potato all around it, rub some olive oil on it, season with salt and pepper, and then bake right on the rack at 350F for at least an hour, all the way up to 1 1/4 hours until the skin is super crispy and the inside is beyond soft.
