/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16628818]

do you think this would cook if I put it in a sandwich press?

[Anonymous No.16628871]

>>16628818
sweet potatoes can be eaten raw so if it doesnt work you still dont poison yourself.

[Anonymous No.16628872]

>>16628818
Only if shredded.

[Anonymous No.16628954]

>>16628818
>do you think this would cook if I put it in a sandwich press?
If you slice them thin enough with some oil on each side of the press.

[Anonymous No.16628960]

>>16628954
yea thats what I meant when I posted haha, I realized after I people might have though I meant just sticking a whole sweet potato in

[Anonymous No.16628969]

I feel like it would take forever and wouldn't be worth it.

[Anonymous No.16628975]

>>16628969
but when I boil it its gross, when I microwave it theres a pool of water at the bottom of the bowl and baking it is too much work to do daily at lest if the only think im baking is sweet potato, what do?

[Anonymous No.16629062]

>>16628818
If you microwave it first sure

[Anonymous No.16629067]

>>16628975
>but when I boil it its gross
huh what you mean
it's going to be perfectly soft on the inside and if the press can get hot enough, and you oil it well enough, you'll have a nice crunchy crust and some soft mash-like potato in the center. like those smiley face potatoes.
but at that point just cook em in a pan

[Anonymous No.16629094]

>>16628975
Bake several and put the extras in the refrigerator for the next day. Or you can do like the other anon said and cook it in a pan.

[Anonymous No.16629165]

you can cook anything you can cook in a pan in a sandwich press
it's just a 2 sides teflon pan

[Anonymous No.16629188]

>>16628975
To cook potato properly for anything that isn't mash or stewed/boiled, you need to par-boil them, and preferably let them dry before you finish them in the other cooking method. If you're doing a mash you cook them past the point of par-boiling.
Cooking sweet or regular potato directly in a frypan or roasted in an oven or deep fryer or air fryer or even a sandwich press (which is really just a doubled up frypan, without the par-boil can cause them to be tough because the starch in the potato doesn't cook out as well, and the interior part of the potato pieces will often be dry and undercooked.
For a sandwich press & sweet potato I'd do thin rounds, par boil, put them in a pot of water then heat until it boils then wait until they are tender, so you can stick in a knife but not falling apart, then pat them down with paper towel or shake out the surface water, then you can start on the sandwich press. add some salt & pepper and spray oil on both sides get it hot and finish off with the sweet potato.
This assumes you have a stove & pot.. you might be able to get a par-boiling kind of thing in a microwave bowl with water but I've not done anything like that.

[Anonymous No.16629211]

>>16629188
i'm a big proponent of par-cook for roast taters
but what you say is far less true for sweet potato than potato

sweet potatos cook far quicker and easier than taters. They roast and fry well without a par-cook

[Anonymous No.16629893]

>>16628818
Fry it.

[Anonymous No.16630251]

>>16628818
steam them for a few minutes and press

[Anonymous No.16630276]

olive & sesame oil w. a bit of teriyaki sauce and brown sugar + salt + garlic powder + red chilli flakes (just enough to coat, you dont want them too soggy) in the oven at 420F for at least an hour, flipping once about 2/3ds of the way through, then left to cool on top of the oven for about ten minutes before re-inserting into a 175F oven for another half hour or so, if you make your sweet potatoes any other way then you can suck my nutz

[Anonymous No.16630282]

>>16630276
also u better space them out on the pan properly dumbass