0
Want this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What is pommes chateau?
Chateau potatoes: Potatoes turned into a barrel shape, then blanched in boiling water, drained then refreshed in cold water, then cooked in the oven.
Do you have to cut potatoes before par boiling?
You can, but you don't have to. Young potatoes with thin skin are especially nice scrubbed but unpeeled. If you are baking them, you must leave the skin on, but boiling, frying, or roasting--it's up to you. (thanks that helps)
Why start with cold water when making coffee or boiling water in general to cook?
The only time I'm sure it noticably effects what your cooking is when you boil potatoes (or any other thick root vegetable). If you start with hot water when boiling potatoes they cook too fast on the outside and get mushy before the middle is cooked. Starting with cold water lets the entire piece of potato get hot along with the water and it cooks through evenly. The general thought here is to use water that you would drink. You would never drink water from your hot water heater.
When boiling potatoes do you keep temperature at boil on high or drop down to medium?
Start your potatoes in cold water, bring them to a boil and reduce your temperature to medium (you get less boil over that way). Check for doneness (when a fork inserted into a potato enters easily). Drain and serve.
How long do you boil potatoes if you plan on making mashed potatoes?
Mashed Potatoes!!About 20 minutes, depending on the size of your potatoes. Start off by putting the potatoes on in cold water (root vegetables should always start in cold water, other vegetables in boiling water). The way to test their doneness is to insert a sharp knife into a few of your potatoes and lift them up out of the water. If they fall off the knife, they're done.
When making potato salad do you peel potatoes when hot or cold?
They will cook more evenly if you start them in cold water. This way the whole potato heats up with the water so the outside doesn't cook so much faster than the center.
Why do potatoes boil into water was told boiling to long or fast reduced both and still happening mushy on outside and hard in middle Why?
Start with potatoes - cut into even size pieces - covered with cold salted water. The water should only be on high heat until it starts to boil. Once it boils, reduce heat slightly so potatoes boil gently. Check for "doneness" with a fork. Boiling potatoes on high may cause the results mentioned - mushy outsides with still firm insides or by the time the insides are cooked correctly, the outsides are overcooked and falling apart.
Why sodium chloride is soluble in cold water but not in boiling water?
Sodium chloride is also soluble in boiling water.
Is the composition of bubbles in boiling water the same as the bubbles that appear when cold water heats up?
They are the same. When cold water heats up and bubbles that means it is boiling.
Why does salt dissolve differently in cold water then it does boiling water?
It freeze in cold and disolve in boilng
Is cold water heating up to its boiling point a chemical change?
cold water heating up to its boiling point a physical change or a chemical change
Can steel be rusted by cold luke and boling water?
It requires water and oxygen. Cold, lukewarm, or boiling water will do it. Boiling can introduce some other types of errosion/corrosion, also.
