Dave Smith wrote:

> It takes what? ... maybe 10 seconds to pare the skin off a potato? Thats
> about the time it takes to soak the par boiled potato in ice water, plus
> the time it takes to heat up the water, and then the time it takes to
> par boil. It's a neat trick, but hardly a time or work saver.

Exactly. I happened to be doing potatoes last week when the link was
posted so I thought I would give it a try. I had plenty of time for it.
I did it like the video instructed but it didn't work like Mary Ann's.
Maybe if the Professor was in the kitchen with me the results would have
been better.

--Lin