Explains crispy potato cooking hackfrom @food52

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Microwaving cornstarch rank water is the secret to making the perfect roast potatoes. This is a method that comes from America's Best Kitchen that I have been obsessed with for years. You're gonna combine cornstarch and water in a glass bowl. For a pound and a half potatoes, you're gonna use two tablespoons of cornstarch and half cup of water. Heat for twenty second increments until you get this, like, pudding y texture. This jelly texture might look a little science fiction y, but it's going to basically create, like, a clear batter. It's sticky, so we're gonna get a ton of coverage over as much of the potatoes as possible. And when heated, it's gonna create, like, little crispy shardy moments all over them. The next and most important part is how you prepare your roasting tray. You're gonna start by spraying it with cooking spray rank then adding a couple tablespoons of oil. The cooking spray has other things in it other than oil that helps to make a nonstick surface, so it is important to add before you add more oil. As I said, these potatoes are sticky. Then you're gonna add your potatoes skin side down, tent with oil, and get into a 425 degree oven for fifteen minutes. This first stage of of baking with oil is gonna create steam and make the potatoes on the inside nice and fluffy. Then we'll remove the foil, throw them back in to get nice and crispy. Right before you're ready to serve, you good toss in all the seasonings you want. I like a little bit of rosemary and garlic. Toss it all together and roast that for five minutes more. Get it on a platter and serve. You can see where the batter crisped up, and that's where the extra texture is gonna come from. It creates this, like, glassy, beautiful finish. Cooking better with foil helped us to get that beautiful fluffy inside too. And honestly, once you do this once it's foolproof, and I'd say they come together faster than a normal roast potato.