[upcountry miss]

Granny, granny, NEVER wrap your baked taters in aluminum foil. Makes the skin soft and soggy. Didn’t you know that the crisp skin is the very best part of baked taters? LOL

DelaWhere, I love post #7, just hope sometime I have time to read all of it including all the links.

[DelaWhere]

>>>DelaWhere, I love post #7<<<

LOL, did you notice your potato bucket post?

Which reminds me, how are they doing?

[DelaWhere]

Well, today I tried drying meat - not jerky in the usual sense.

I was going to do a deer roast for dinner, so I put two in a pot and boiled along with some onion and garlic, a bit of salt and pepper cooking till they were done. (This achieved the goal of minimum of 160º temp.) I pre-heated the dehydrator and sliced the venison and put it on the trays - 6 hours later - bone dry! I cut it in 1/8 - 1/4” full slices across the grain and some in smaller pieces - all dried bone dry. Boiling it seems to have prepared it very well - removed the untrimmed fat from the meat and all.

I can hardly wait to do more and also try different meats.

Gotta get that freezer emptied for refilling.

I took some and re-hydrated it and it was great!

[nw_arizona_granny]

Granny, granny, NEVER wrap your baked taters in aluminum foil. Makes the skin soft and soggy. Didn’t you know that the crisp skin is the very best part of baked taters? LOL<<<

LOL, as usual, you are correct.

I do use the tinfoil, if cooking them in the ashes of a campfire.

When I learned to cook, we rubbed butter on the skins before cooking/baking.

[CottonBall]

Granny, granny, NEVER wrap your baked taters in aluminum foil. Makes the skin soft and soggy. Didn’t you know that the crisp skin is the very best part of baked taters? LOL

The crispy skin is my favorite part of a baked tater too. The most nutritious as well, I hear. Found a good way to get 'em crispy - spread on some oil and salt and take at 425 or 450 or so. yum!

BTW, my experiment with growing taters in the mountains is going well. The plants in the meadow didn't make it, but those on the fringes of it are alive and kicking. I'm having a friend tater-sit them while I'm back in the hot valley, waiting to see if my son makes it into the Air Force or not. It will be one stressful week, waiting! Patience is not my best virtue. (Or even one of them!)