Exploding Spuds

[Biccylova]

After seeing Nadia roast tinned potatoes I decided to do the same, but mine exploded, made a terrible mess of the oven and hardly any spuds left to eat, what did i do wrong? i dried them, rolled them in a little oil and put them in the oven at 200%.

[Rockrose]

Oh sorry Spath I will bow to your great knowledge as obviously my time training as a chef means nothing

[Rockrose]

If you chill oil what happens Spath?

[ummmm]

Spath - so where does your suggestion of butter fit in?

[spathiphyllum]

Well there is cooking knowledge then scientific fact. I'm not discrediting you as a chef, but there is a difference between oil and fat., scientifically at least.

[Rockrose]

Oil is a fat!

[retrocop]

It seems 200c oven temperature is the favoured temperature for roasting tinned potatoes. I don't use tinned spuds personally and I don't know why they should of exploded.Never happened to me using loose potatoes of any variety.
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/24414/russell-s-easy-baked-tinned-potatoes.aspx

[ummmm]

I would guess it has something to do with the water content.

Spath....Biccylova hasn't asked for scientific facts.

[teacake44]

Why Nadia would use tinned potatoes puzzles me, not such a task to prepare fresh ones. (Is it?):0)

[ummmm]

Not when they don't even need peeling, no.

[Barmaid]

Spath - if I dont have goose fat, I use a mixture of veg oil and olive oil. It's nonsense to say that spuds are normally cooked in fat.

I think it will be water content related. Pat drying them will not have taken the moisture out of the centre. When I've par boiled my spuds for roasting, I dry them in the pan on the hob for a few mins to really dry them out.

On occasion I have fried tinned spuds, even having pat dried them they spit like no-body's business so I think that could be the issue.

[Mamyalynne]

The whole premise of the series was how to cheat,save time etc.

[Rockrose]

I always keep some cans of tinned spud in they are very handy

[ummmm]

Tinned spuds doesn't seem to save time though.

[Old_Geezer]

Biccylova may well not have asked for scientific facts. But they were critical regarding the discussion about Spath's response. But it is getting off subject.

[retrocop]

Doesn't save a lot of time if you have to clean your oven and extract potato from all over the walls. I suspect,being of Asian heritage that Nadiya used clarified butter or ghee as a roasting medium. Just saying

[Rockrose]

You would be wrong then!

[Mamyalynne]

I never saw her use ghee in that series.

this is one she did with tinned spuds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/marmalade_haddock_80489

[retrocop]

Possibly I am wrong. She doesn't appear averse to using ghee in this roast potato recipe albeit not using tinned potatoes.
https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/nadiya-hussains-sunday-lunch-our-way

[Old_Geezer]

Were Biccy's spuds halved ? Which way up were they ?

[Rockrose]

Look at the title of the recipe you printed retro!
The answer is in the recipe’our way’