My mother always told me to take a fork to the potatoes before I bake them. And I always did. It never seemed to make them cook any faster so for many years I thought she was slightly off with this advice.
Never the less, I still did it, every time.
But recently I’ve been in a rush and just threw the potatoes in with the meatloaf. Hell, I didn’t even wash them! They were fine and I shrugged off that habit my mother’s advice had become.
Guess who skipped her carb THAT night!
Apparently.. the science of the WHY I should do this never stuck as well as the habit. Because I’m sure she told me. Potatoes have lots of water in them and the heat can make a lot of steam, which is an excellent source of, well, propulsion.
There had been 5 potatoes. I had just grabbed one on the right when that back one exploded. All Over Me. And all over the floor and the walls, and… well, you get the idea.
So now I gotta rethink ALL her advice! Does this mean I WILL go bald if I pluck out the gray hairs in my head?