Potatoes are one of the common ingredients in people's daily life. Cooked potatoes are soft and sweet, and they are a very popular food. For most people, it takes some time to cook potatoes. Generally speaking, a medium-sized potato needs to be boiled in boiling water 15 to 20 minutes to be fully cooked.
If you want to make potatoes taste softer and more waxy, you can crush them with a fork or spoon during cooking. But if potatoes are large, it may take longer to cook. Larger potatoes may need to be cooked for 20 minutes or more to be fully cooked. Using a pressure cooker at this time can shorten the cooking time. Cooking potatoes in a pressure cooker usually takes only 7 to 8 minutes to be completely cooked.
Precautions for cooking potatoes:
1 Cook the whole potato with slow fire to make it taste even and delicious. You can't cook it with a sharp fire, it will cause the outer layer to be cooked or even cracked, and the inside is still raw, so the potatoes between them are not delicious.
2. If potatoes are left for a long time, there may be small green spots on the surface (note that it is not the case that the buds are blue near the eyes, so you can't eat them), which affects the appearance of cooking. You can put a proper amount of vinegar in the water where potatoes are boiled, and the spots can disappear.
3. If peeled potatoes are not cooked for the time being, they can be placed in clean water with a little vinegar to prevent discoloration.
4, to remove the potato skin, you can first hot water, and then cold water, which will make it easier to remove the skin.