Why you should use baking soda for extra-crispy roasted potatoes
Crispy roasted potatoes on the menu tonight? Try this tip to make your potatoes extra crispy!
Earlier, FavorFlav’s Delilah shared how New York chef Dan Kluger always gets his potatoes super crispy. His secret? Egg white! But besides egg white, there’s another way to achieve ultimate crispyness, and that’s everyday baking soda.
Extra-crispy roasted potatoes with baking soda
If you want to conjure up the ultimate crispy roasted potatoes from the oven, you’ll first need to boil them. And to that boiling water, add not only some salt but also a teaspoon of baking soda. Baking soda breaks down the pectin in the potatoes, allowing more of the potatoes’ starch to come to the surface. And it’s precisely that starch that makes them turn deliciously golden brown and crispy in the oven. So give it a try—I did too, and it really works!
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