Prepare Potatoes for Potato Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Richard Buccola and today on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to show you how to make some old fashioned American Potato salad. Okay you are going to need 2 1/2 pounds of potatoes. I usually buy a 5 pound bag; something like this, just break it in half. It's probably about 7 medium potatoes; 3, 4, 7, 6, to 7 medium potatoes. First thing I like to do is run them under some cold water and give them a good washing. What's great about New York City is that we get fresh produce every day in the city. Make sure you use the freshest of potatoes and to get a fresh potato, you want it to be firm and to have a good color. You don't want them to be mushy where you can stick your finger through it. If you can stick your finger through it, it's probably not a good potato. I like to just cut them in half. It makes the cooking time go that much further and I put them right into my water. The water is just starting to boil. But that's okay we'll boil. I cut them into pieces real simple. What I do basically do with a potato like that is I cut it in half, then I just put it on the flat side up, cut that in half and cut that in half and it will make the cooking time go that much faster. Short way to know that your potatoes are done is later on you stick a fork in them and the fork will come right out. You know the old saying, stick a fork in it, you know you're done. Come back and we are making American Potato salad here on Expert Village. "