NEVER Boil Potatoes Again — Try This APPALACHIAN Trick

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe pulls up a chair and counts down fifty ways the old mountain kitchens cooked a tater without ever once dropping it in a pot of boiling water — fried, baked, buried, doctored, and a few downright peculiar. It's the plain, hard-won sense of an Appalachian kitchen from back when nothing got wasted and nobody wrote a word of it down. And the one she's never shown a living soul, she saves for the very end. In this one, Opal covers: • Why she never lets a good tater touch boiling water • The hot baked tater that warmed young'uns on the cold walk to school • Scouring the rust off a cast-iron skillet with a cut tater and salt — no soap • Saving and naming your own seed, year to year • The sick-day tater soup her mama simmered soft in sweet milk • And the trick she's never told a soul — saved for last Tell us down in the comments where you're watching from — and what your people called these where you come from. Opal reads every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The tater she never boiled 1:41 Fried taters and onions in the black skillet 2:33 Browned in saved bacon grease 3:27 The fried tater sandwich on light bread 4:13 Rinsing the starch off for crispy fried taters 4:59 Poke the baking tater so it don't bust 5:41 Graveling the hill for new taters 6:28 Drop a cube to test the grease 7:12 Green beans and taters cooked down with fatback 8:13 Gravy taters that make their own gravy 8:51 Fried tater peelings, cracklins for the young'uns 9:46 Attic-dried tater slices 10:48 Soup beans thickened with a cubed tater 11:33 Stretching a little meat with taters 13:07 The cold-water soak 13:48 The hot baked tater in your coat pocket 14:38 The ash-roasted tater in the wood stove 15:27 Kilt lettuce over a mess of new taters 16:11 Planting taters in the dark of the moon 17:00 Creamed new taters in sweet milk 17:57 Scour the skillet with a cut tater and salt 18:44 Slick dumplings dropped over the taters 21:04 Salt-rising bread raised on a tater starter 23:02 A wart rub with a tater, then buried 23:51 Warm the milk before it hits the mash 24:58 Tater bread from a spoon of mash 26:15 Saving your own seed year to year 27:10 Twist out a broke light bulb with a raw tater 29:10 Boiling them in their jackets 29:58 Carry a tater in your pocket for the rheumatism 30:58 One bad tater spoils the whole barrel 31:47 Start your taters in cold water, not boiling 32:40 Save the tater water for the garden 33:29 A raw tater on a bee sting, and to draw a splinter 34:24 Dirt stays on them till you eat them 35:10 Salt the water, you cannot salt it back 36:05 What the mountains called them 36:51 Keep them dark or they green up 37:41 A hot tater in a rag to warm a cold bed 38:46 Pressure-canned taters 39:45 Decoration Day potato salad 40:44 A raw tater when the beans get too salty 41:42 Soupy taters with crackers, the sick-day soup 42:42 Potato candy from one little tater 43:41 The Dutch-oven coal-lid crisp on the wood stove 44:44 The one she never showed a soul