HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A POTATO

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How IS that a potato?

That is a potato which has either been cooked so long or at so high a heat (likely both) that the starches have broken down into sugars, which in turn began to carbonize. It’s like that picture that went viral of someone who forgot they were making caramel at work. That’s just what happens when sugars burn. 

Kudos to the chef though, I didn’t know you could achieve “forgot about the caramel” levels of burn with a baked potato. They’re so dense and full of moisture that they take forever just to cook; to burn a potato like that they had to have the oven up pretty high and leave it in for like, an entire afternoon. 

(Fun science experiment: take a small bite of raw potato and chew it. Keep chewing it. No, keep chewing it. Keep chewing it. Eventually your saliva and continued chewing breaks the starches down inside your mouth, and the potato will begin to taste sweet from the sugars the starches produced.) 

Put them in a microwave for 20 minutes. If you don’t want to use your microwave ever again.

Ohhhhh I never even thought about the microwave! I don’t like baked potatoes so I never make them, it never occurred to me you could nuke one.