How many ways can you cook a potato?

Answer 1

Potatoes can be boiled, roasted and baked whole or they can be cut up to make other things such as fries and chips and fried. Potatoes can be added to soups to thicken them and they can be mashed to top pies and you can make potato cakes out of them.

Answer 2

•Potatoes can be boiled, mashed, baked, scalloped or fried. With a knife you can use techniques like cubing, dicing, slicing, chopping or cutting to name a few different ways they can be prepared.

Answer 3

Specific recipes, you can check for yourself, but otherwise potatoes are extremely versatile and can be prepared through any of the most common methods of cooking, such as frying, deep-frying, boiling, steaming, baking, broiling, roasting, etc. etc. etc. without losing their taste or texture(and in fact, enhancing one or the other or both, in most cases).

Of course, it all depends on the skill of the cook themselves, as well as what type of potato you've chosen(ie: waxy, starchy, etc), but there really is no way that you *cannot* cook a potato.

Answer 4

There are probably too many ways to prepare potatoes than can be mentioned here, but some of the most popular are french fried, cooking potato slices in some form of cooking oil or animal fat (the most decadent are cooked in duck fat, they're fabulous tasting, but very bad for you). You can bake a potato, which means leaving it whole, pricking the skin, wrapping it in foil, and cooking in an oven -- this gives you a light, fluffy potato which can be topped with butter, sour cream, chives, cheese, bacon, etc.

Other methods are making mashed potatoes, which involves boiling or steaming potatoes, then mashing them and adding milk, butter and salt -- this makes a really creamy, smooth texture. Roasting potatoes generally involves parboiling them just until tender, then cutting them into pieces, adding a little oil and cooking in the oven, which gives them a crispy exterior -- this method gives potatoes a soft warm interior and a crispy exterior, and enhances the potato flavor because roasting carmelizes some of the sugars found in potatoes. A last method I can think of is boiling waxy potatoes, allowing them to cool and cutting them up into cubes, and then making either a warm or cold potato salad with them.

Answer 5

4, 001, 892 different ways to cook a tuber (potato)

Answer 6

Boiled, braised, steamed, fried, grilled.

Answer 7

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