☕️ Bite-Sized Sundays: 🥔 The Secret to Really Crispy Potatoes (Without Using a Ton of Oil)


Happy Sunday, Friends.

This week: How to make truly crispy potatoes with one simple technique and three recipes to inspire you to try it out.

"Good food is very often, even most often, simple food." ~Anthony Bourdain

Have you ever tried to make crispy potatoes at home only to end up with either burned outsides or raw centers? Or having to use so much oil that they're basically deep-fried?

I sure have. But years ago I discovered a simple parboil-and-shake technique that changed that for good. You'll partially cook the potatoes first, then drain and give them a vigorous shake to roughen up their edges so they crisp beautifully in the pan or in the oven, with much less oil than you'd expect.

Crispy Potato Recipes Using This Technique:

📣 Around the web this week: Simply Recipes asked four experts to name the best thick-cut bacon — and they all said the same brand. (I weighed in.) And over at Chowhound, I shared which bulk products I'd skip at Costco.

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