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Now, what we do now is something very simple. We take the butter and lots of it. If you’re going to use butter, then use it. Don’t play with it. It’s not a toy. It’s to make everything taste more delicious. Some people may say using that amount of butter is a crime, but let’s be brutally honest, crime isn’t vulgar. Vulgarity is a crime. There’s a great Oscar Wildside. So there we are. A little shake and let’s bring them back to the boil. So we left about 5% of water in the pan. And then we added lots and lots of butter. Bring it back to the boil. That’s why I said cook them 98%. As you can see, they’re now boiling. They’re drowning in butter. And I can’t imagine a better way of dying than being drowned in butter. So what we do now, we take our blanket of cling film and allow them to become intoxicated. Allow it to all be drawn in and sucked in. And that’s called bold potatoes with

22 Comments

  1. every recipy of this man is sticks of butter galleons of olive oil or stock cubes by the dozen his bloodpressuere must be insane

  2. I came for a simple boiled potato recipe and left with a philosophical itch I can’t shake off.