{"id":69,"date":"2006-05-01T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-05-01T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T03:02:00","slug":"here-is-video-demonstrating-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/here-is-video-demonstrating-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=37GVvxcyz6I&#038;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elifehacker%2Ecom%2Fsoftware%2Fcooking%2Fvideo%2Ddemonstration%2Dpeel%2Da%2Dpotato%2Din%2Done%2Dstep%2D158620%2Ephp\">Here<\/a> is a video demonstrating an easy way to peel the skin off of a potato.  (Warning: the video is all in loud, exuberant Japanese.)  A few nights ago, I gave this a try.<\/p>\n<p>First, you make a thin cut around the center of your potato.  Then, you put it in boiling water:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/potato1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I left it in there for about 10 minutes.  Next, you pull the potato out and stick it in ice cold water:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/potato2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wait about 10 seconds, then pick up the potato and squeeze the skin off.  Well, that&#8217;s the idea, at least.  Apparently, the Japanese are more skilled at this step than I am &#8212; for me, the skin came off easily, but in about 20 little pieces.  Also, I sloshed water all over the counter and floor.  But it <i>did<\/i> work, sort of:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/potato3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was fun to try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video demonstrating an easy way to peel the skin off of a potato. (Warning: the video is all in loud, exuberant Japanese.) A few nights ago, I gave this a try. First, you make a thin cut around the center of your potato. Then, you put it in boiling water: I left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}