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1 hour ago, rotuts said:Ive never understood the potato skin / salt recommendation
Im not saying it does not work
Ive never read an explanation of it , on a molecular level
There is oxalic acid in potato skins. As in Barkeeper's Friend...
It is a strange instruction, but I guess BKF isn't universal. Demeyere instructs to boil milk in their tall asparagus steamer, yet this has been their method for so long no one at the company can tell me, why milk?
1 hour ago, rotuts said:Ive never understood the potato skin / salt recommendation
Im not saying it does not work
Ive never read an explanation of it , on a molecular level
There is oxalic acid in potato skins. AS in Barkeeper's Friend...
