roast potatoes

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AIBU to think dh is an arrogant b* for being asked to be par boil potatoes and he never doing this. Yes I am grateful he cooks dinner, when I'm working but this drives me mad. rant over

So he doesn't par boil roast potatoes?

YANBU they don't taste as nice at all. He's a lazy arse.

we never parboil ours either.

My DH always par boils the potatoes before roasting. Your DH is definitely BU.
He might as well use Aunt Bessies if that's his attitude!!!

Thanks mumsnetters tbh am being a bit lazy as not working today, so offered to help now.

nickelbabe I've never tried doing roast potatoes without parboiling them first. How long do they take to roast?

Don't they go all hard in the middle, and rubbery on the outside?

Did anyone see the chef on Great British Menu this week making roast potatoes?

Parboiled them, then fluffed them in a colander one at a time

They looked incredible. I wanted to marry him :)

I am doing roast potatoes for tea tonight but don't think I will be fluffing them one at a time

If he's making it he can do it how he likes mind you I buy frozen ones !

I cover mine in water in a plastic bowl and do them in the microwave for 10 minutes.

Surely it's a crime to make roast potatoes without parboiling them first.

Parboil, then put it a bowl and sprinkle on pre mixed 'crunchy dust' : flour, mustard powder, salt, an oxo cube, some sesame seeds. Toss the taters, then put in hot fat. Yum.

If you have nice firm, waxy potatoes, they roast very nicely,raw, in olive oil. Raw they absorb a lot less fat.

You are all cholesterol adicts!

yes Chandon, a fellow believer. No to parboiling.

If your fat is hot enough it will seal around the potatoes, not soak into them, parboiled or not.

I would always parboil, then drain, sprinkle with flour salt and pepper, bash them about in the pan with the lid on, then put into hot oil.. (dripping/lard)

Actually out of time constraints I once had to throw the potatoes in with the beef without par boiling (as I normally do). they had longer at a lower temperature than normal but were ....stunning. Crispy, tasty in all the beef fat and just the best.

my roast potatoes, parboiled, and shaken in the pan, are great round a chicken, take chicken out, turn upp heat, wonderful, but just not the same around a roast pork,
why is that?

If you like Marmite add about half a teaspoon after parboiling..very very nice

I always use Auntie Bessie's!