Who Peels Your Spuds?

[Barrister]

Given the season you can probably find them an old timey black and white stripped prison suit on the cheap. Really round out the ambience

Like what - I'm supposed to slave away making supper while they play on the Playstation?  Fuck that.

If they want to eat, they can help cook.

Trying to get them more involved in doing dishes also.  Making progress there.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Depends on who is cooking and whether they need to be peeled.

[HVC]

Given the season you can probably find them an old timey black and white stripped prison suit on the cheap. Really round out the ambience

Like what - I'm supposed to slave away making supper while they play on the Playstation?  Fuck that.

If they want to eat, they can help cook.

Trying to get them more involved in doing dishes also.  Making progress there.

I approve of your methods, just trying to inject some whimsy

[celedhring]

Barring the occasional tortilla, I haven't peeled a single potato in literally decades 

I just don't use them much for cooking, and when I do I usually bake them with the skin.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I don't cook them either, not a huge fan of them and my wife often cooks them so I stick to rice, pasta, lentils etc when I'm cooking.

[Josquius]

I like potato skins. So, no one.

I do too when they're in condition for it. But they rarely are.

But yes. Me. Absolutely always me or the folk in the restaurant/factory.

[garbon]

I don't cook them either, not a huge fan of them and my wife often cooks them so I stick to rice, pasta, lentils etc when I'm cooking.

I'm learning there are some demons on Languish.

[Caliga]

I voted incorrectly.   But I peel them.  It's kind of weird too because there's a specific dish that my wife does most of the prep/cooking for, but she always wants me to be the one to peel and cut the potatoes and garlic for it (it's garlic mashed potatoes, which we have as a side with roasted broccoli and chicken thighs).  She'll do all the rest of the cooking for that dish.

[Caliga]

Oh wait, no I didn't vote incorrectly.  mongers messed the poll up, but I missed that in his initial post.

[mongers]

I don't cook them either, not a huge fan of them and my wife often cooks them so I stick to rice, pasta, lentils etc when I'm cooking.

Yes RH, I'm also not a fan of the potato, I think it's because there's not enough protein/nutrition in them as compared to pasta, oats, wheat and lentils etc.

[Barrister]

I don't cook them either, not a huge fan of them and my wife often cooks them so I stick to rice, pasta, lentils etc when I'm cooking.

Yes RH, I'm also not a fan of the potato, I think it's because there's not enough protein/nutrition in them as compared to pasta, oats, wheat and lentils etc.

I feel like you're wrong - at least vis-a-vis pasta/wheat or oats.  (I like lentils when I have them, but don't eat them much)

There's a reason poor people around the world can survive on a diet of almost nothing but potatoes - nutritionally they're fairly complete.

As for peeling them - really that's just for mashed potatoes.  Which we don't do a ton of - roasted potatoes are much easier, and you can definitely leave the skins on.  But on Christmas / Thanksgiving, or if making a shepherd's pie, you need mashed potatoes, and they need to be peeled.

[crazy canuck]

A lot of the nutritional value of a potato is lost when you peel it. I like slicing up a potato and frying it in a pan as part of my my breakfast.  Skin on, of course.  True, it does not have a lot of protein, but it has a lot of other vitamins and minerals that pasta does not have.  It's a bit of a miracle food actually.

[mongers]

I don't cook them either, not a huge fan of them and my wife often cooks them so I stick to rice, pasta, lentils etc when I'm cooking.

Yes RH, I'm also not a fan of the potato, I think it's because there's not enough protein/nutrition in them as compared to pasta, oats, wheat and lentils etc.

I feel like you're wrong - at least vis-a-vis pasta/wheat or oats.  (I like lentils when I have them, but don't eat them much)

There's a reason poor people around the world can survive on a diet of almost nothing but potatoes - nutritionally they're fairly complete.

....

Maybe we're partially talking past each other, personally I can't eat big plates of food, so I guess I'm biased toward more nutritionally dense foods.  Hence I love peanuts. 

[Barrister]

I got to wondering:

https://foodstruct.com/compare/potato-vs-pasta

-pasta is denser, and thus higher in calories
-potatoes are higher in fibre
-pasta is higher in vitamins A, B1, B2 and folate
-potatoes are higher in Vitamin C and b6 (pasta has no vitamin C)
-potatoes are much higher in mineral content
-potatoes have a high glycemic index, and not very good for people with diabetes

So look, I love pasta and certainly it's a regular part of my diet.  But I wouldn't turn up my nose at potatoes for health reasons.

[mongers]

I got to wondering:

https://foodstruct.com/compare/potato-vs-pasta

-pasta is denser, and thus higher in calories
-potatoes are higher in fibre
-pasta is higher in vitamins A, B1, B2 and folate
-potatoes are higher in Vitamin C and b6 (pasta has no vitamin C)
-potatoes are much higher in mineral content
-potatoes have a high glycemic index, and not very good for people with diabetes

So look, I love pasta and certainly

I got to wondering:

https://foodstruct.com/compare/potato-vs-pasta

-pasta is denser, and thus higher in calories
-potatoes are higher in fibre
-pasta is higher in vitamins A, B1, B2 and folate
-potatoes are higher in Vitamin C and b6 (pasta has no vitamin C)
-potatoes are much higher in mineral content
-potatoes have a high glycemic index, and not very good for people with diabetes

So look, I love pasta and certainly it's a regular part of my diet.  But I wouldn't turn up my nose at potatoes for health reasons.

it's a regular part of my diet.  But I wouldn't turn up my nose at potatoes for health reasons.

Thanks BB that was interesting.