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Summary: How to prepare the potato for baking when cooking a cheese and herb baked potato; learn more about homemade potato recipes in this free cooking video.
Denise Hilligoss has been a Manager and a cook for a popular restaurant in southern California for nearly 10 years.read more
"Welcome to Expert Village. In this clip, we're going to prepare our potatoes. If you're using potatoes that have thick skins, you'll want to peel them first. I'm using Yukon Gold. They have a nice thin skin, so we can go ahead and go to our next step. You want to scrub them up, rinse them, and then you're going to cut them. You're going to cut them into thin slices, but not all the way through. You can use the handle of a knife, and that will keep you from cutting all the way through your potato."
eHow Article: Preparing A Potato For Baking