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How to Cut Potatoes


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  • Author: chefjar
  • Total Time: 5 minutes

Description

This is an easy tutorial how to cut potatoes. Learn the best way to cut a potato into slices, wedges, sticks or cubes for your favorite recipes!


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 large potato

Instructions

  • Wash and dry potatoes. Peel the potatoes, if desired.

Cut the potato in desired shape:

Potato Wedges:

  1. Use a sharp knife to halve your potato. The cutting motion should come from towards the handle, in a rolling motion from handle to tip of the blade.
  2. Once you’ve sliced the potato in half, slice each half in two lengthwise. Then cut each of these quarters in half once more. This gives you eight roughly even wedges per potato, so they’ll cook evenly. If you’re using a massive potato, such as some varieties of sweet potato, you’re welcome to cut the eighths in half again.

Potato Slices:

  1. Taking your sharp knife, start at the root of your potato and slice to your desired thickness. About half an inch or one centimeter per slice is usually plenty for most recipes.
  2. Continue this until you reach the other end of your potato. Voila! Sliced potato.

Potato Sticks:

  1. Using your sharp knife, make a thin slice lenghtwise across the long edge of your potato. It should be able to sit flat along your chopping board.
  2. Now slice the potato lengthwise to whatever your desired thickness is.
  3. Stacking the slices together, flipping the stack over so it’s cut side down, cut lengthwise to make sticks. This is pretty similar to the sliced potato cutting method, but with an additional step to make sure you can make your potato sticks.

Potato Cubes:

  1. Start by cutting potato sticks, then make perpendicular cuts all across to dice.

Place the cut potatoes in cool water until ready to cook to prevent discoloration.

  • Prep Time: 5 min

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1
  • Calories: 163kcal