• SonnyVabitch
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    49 months ago

    Maybe next time you could try lower heat for longer. Or not, if this is not for you, you do you.

    • @KrudlerOP
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      9 months ago

      Physics prevents this from being cooked anything other than inconsistently.

      As the fins rise and spread out, the amount of moisture that can dissipate can be plotted on a curve with the bottom of the potato always representing the least amount of moisture dissipation, and the outer part at the top always having the most.

      And it gets more complicated because as the potato curves on each axis it becomes thinner on the edges so there’s a gradient in moisture dissipation there too.

      In a practical sense this means that every X, Y, Z point on this potato is cooked different. Some points will be perfect but by definition it means other points will not and cannot be perfect. And other points must be awful.

      There is a fundamental flaw in this design, which changing the temperature or cooking duration cannot solve.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        Too much delta t leads to too much delta T.

        I wonder if the tater could be sous vide after slicing to perfect temp and then somehow flash crusted. Similar idea to twice cooked fries that are boiled, frozen, then fried.

      • andrew
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        19 months ago

        I mean, I’ve had this prepared professionally and it was exceptional and consistent. And I knew immediately I probably didn’t ever want to prepare it myself.