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potatoes soften when boiled because the heat and water, slowly goes into the potato which causes it to soften.
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Errr . . . potatoes are saturated with water before they are cooked, so maybe the softening comes from something else.
The high heat at which potatoes are boiled (the boiling point) causes a chemical change in the potato's cell walls, causing the stiff cell wall substance to change to a different chemical composition . . . which happens to be much softer. Hence, soft boiled potatoes.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoBecause the cells in the potato lyse with the heat and water.
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∙ 14y agoBecause you have boiled then too long, the maximum boiling time is twenty minutes, less for certain varieties of potatoes.
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∙ 14y agoYou have boiled your potatoes too long. This is how mashed potatoes was invented.
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∙ 14y ago30 min, but really kid or who ever you are you gotta ask yr mom that first :O
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∙ 16y agoIt's due to the starch in the potatoes
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