Like, I get comments from people telling me it's weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.
Should be worth noting that the skin of potatoes contains toxins.
The toxins exist throughout the skin, but in smaller concentration than in the sprouts and green parts. Doesn't mean that the skin is inherently unsafe to eat, but you probably should peel it if you eat potatoes regulary, or if you're cooking for children, old people or someone immunocompromised.
Toxins exist in the water you drink and the air you breathe, unless you distill the water to the point of actually being dangerous to consume.
A small concentration of toxins is absolutely unavoidable. The presence in potato skins is pretty negligible.
You do you, I'm just going by the recommendation of my local health advisor.
Does he enter the room and say "Hi everybody"?
I think cooking goes a long way to dealing with the toxins, also. Raw potatoes are very toxic.
No, alcaloids are stable under heat, that's why you should also discard the water when cooking potatoes with skin.
you seem knowledgeable about potatoes. Is it okay to let the water cool down and water outside plants with it?
I don't know, but if you let it sit on your stove for a few days you can develop a really impressive stink!
try it after you boiled it together with some brocolli
Not that I ever reused the potato cooking water, but TIL. Thank you.