Nuked Potato

[James]

---Nuked Potato---

(If you have been persuaded that nuked food is bad, read no further. I don't claim Nuked Potato is a healthfood.)

Directions:

Nuke a potato, at maximum power, till it gives very, very little when squeezed hard, using a hotpad. With heavy shears, cut the potato into less-than-bite-size pieces, dropping them into a deep bowl. Add a gob of butter. Nuke the potato a minute more. Stir the pieces till they are coated with the butter.

I suppose this potato could be served cold, but why wait around?

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The taste and color of the flesh of the nuked potato should be toasty and quite sweet and the texture of some pieces should be rubbery and that of the rest, crisp. Warning! This sort of nuked potato is addictive!

[Turquoise]

Perhaps, I have come to the wrong forum, eh??? I sincerely thought I read this website was a sharing of healthy food in the nourishing traditions of WAP.

[Turquoise]

Perhaps, I have come to the wrong forum, eh??? I sincerely thought I read this website was a sharing of healthy food in the nourishing traditions of WAP.

[Diogenes]

Perhaps, I have come to the wrong forum, eh??? I sincerely thought I read this website was a sharing of healthy food in the nourishing traditions of WAP.

I recently nuked a sweet potato and it was perfect with MCT oil.


ps: My sis-in-law's purse was snatched on the Whidbey Island ferry.

[Neal]

I haven't Nuked anything for at least 6 years...
Can't remember why I ever did...

If you can't cook taters on a regular stove,
You don't know how to feed yourself!

[Diogenes]

I haven't Nuked anything for at least 6 years...
Can't remember why I ever did...

If you can't cook taters on a regular stove,
You don't know how to feed yourself!

Neal, I'm a bit afraid to ask, but how's your centenarian grandmother?

[Neal]

Grandma passed away when she was 105.

She figured out that the food we were feeding her was keeping her alive and she quit eating.

She was ready to go so we let her have her way.

[Diogenes]

Grandma passed away when she was 105.

She figured out that the food we were feeding her was keeping her alive and she quit eating.

She was ready to go so we let her have her way.

Sorry to hear that, Neal...but you did a great job caring for her and extending her life.

[Neal]

Thank You,

I learned a lot about food and life in general while she was here.
She changed my life in a lot of ways.

[Neal]

There is a story her kids like to tell...

About how they tricked their parents into using margarine instead of butter!
They still think it is funny, it just makes me see red!

Granny and Grandpa were raised on a small farm just outside of city limits and produced almost all of their own food until they were well into their 60's.

Not too many people can do that anymore!

Once they switched to margarine it was all downhill from there.
It wasn't long before they had a microwave!

[Diogenes]

I have a friend whose 104 year old mother just moved into a nursing home. Her parents
were wardrobe designers to the last tsar of Russia. She still plays the piano by heart.

Her son, my friend. uses a microwave and eats no meat except for wild salmon and no
dairy except for eggs. In his mid 70s, he bikes 250 miles a week....a competitive racer.
He consumes 5,500 calories/day to feed his energy requirements. He totally shuns pro-
cessed foods except just prior to exercise.

His wife is a nationally known dietician and her father was a colleague of Dr Hans Krebs
who described the Krebs Cycle. Her father was captured by the Japs in the Philippines and tortured to death.

[Neal]

What is the moral of your story?

The generations that were born before processed foods became "affordable" definitely lived longer. Well some of them anyway. Not everyone back then knew how to eat well!

Not many people can live without eating commercially processed foods today, and they pay for it! (let me inspect the contents of their fridge), With shorter lifespans and/or higher medical costs.

That is not where I want to be or go, not again, been there done that!

As far as nationally known dietitian's are concerned...
I've developed severe allergies to educated people,
They make my asshole itch and my eyes burn!

I refuse to nuke my asparagus (or anything else) to save the nutrients and I don't eat salads made from hydroponically grown veggies....

[Diogenes]

What is the moral of your story?

the title "different strokes"

(let me inspect the contents of their fridge)

be my guest...it's probably similar to your's

As far as nationally known dietitian's are concerned...
I've developed severe allergies to educated people,
They make my asshole itch and my eyes burn!

she emphasizes whole, unprocessed foods....and she's quite pleasing to the eye

I refuse to nuke my asparagus (or anything else) to save the nutrients and I don't eat salads made from hydroponically grown veggies....

I march to my own drummer, not to fearmongers.

BTW, ricebran extract literally made my asshole itch and I sent my supply to our
mutual friend. I do use ricebran oil for some of my cooking but I don't cook much.

[Neal]

Go ahead and NUKE your taters!

It's perfectly safe and preserves the vitamins and enzymes!

[Diogenes]

Go ahead and NUKE your taters!

It's perfectly safe and preserves the vitamins and enzymes!

I've only NUKEd one tater in 5 years, a sweet-tater. I was surprised how well it turned out. I would wager that the nutritional values were equal to cooking in a conventional over. I bet paleolithic man was skeptical of any cooking at first.

[Neal]

Are you betting your life on it?

You should be nuking your taters everyday!

[Diogenes]

Are you betting your life on it?

You should be nuking your taters everyday!

We all bet our lives every time we eat, but it's
a losing gamble, for life is a terminal condition.

[u&iraok]

I'm not going to get into the 'nuke' discussion but if you eat potatoes make sure they're organic:

The Farm Director Won't Eat: Nonorganic Potatoes
Jeffrey Moyer is the chair of the National Organic Standards Board.

The problem: Root vegetables absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil. In the case of potatoes--the nation's most popular vegetable--they're treated with fungicides during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the fibrous vines before harvesting. After they're dug up, the potatoes are treated yet again to prevent them from sprouting. "Try this experiment: Buy a conventional potato in a store, and try to get it to sprout. It won't," says Moyer, who is also farm director of the Rodale Institute (also owned by Rodale Inc., the publisher of Prevention). "I've talked with potato growers who say point-blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. They have separate plots where they grow potatoes for themselves without all the chemicals."

[jemsbowen]

I like Nuked potato salad. I am sure that helps to make them less starchy if you are not serving them up with the meal. LOL Remember Starch turns to sugar so if you are watching your starches for health reasons like diabetics then by all means I would rinse. It is good for health.

[Joneswilliamsc]

I love a good Nuked potato. And for a crispy skin here is what I do instead of waiting an hour. And I also can say that the potato's moisture and you are actually boiling it in its own jacket. Completely changes the texture of the potato meat. This is not baking. True baking releases the moisture. And I also came to know that it will surely gives you a mealy potato.