Hasselback Potatoes
 

Just tried some Hasselback Potatoes the other day....delicious! Google has a boatload of different recipes for 'em.......anybody else tried them?

Mrs. Swede and I used to make them. The cutting is the annoying part.

Haven't done it in a while. Maybe we'll do it again. I think our kids would get a kick out of them.

If you cut them on a rounded spoon it makes it quicker, as the lip of the spoon acts as a guard to prevent you cutting all the way down.

Good advice! But be sure it's a wooden spoon. not to damage the knife.

A Neat Trick
 

Another trick is to take two wooden skewers and lay one on either side of the potato parallel to the potato. This only allows the cut to go so far.

Does this have something to do with eating potatoes on the floor while drunk and being filmed by your daughter?

Oh wait - that was Hasselhoff, not Hasselback. Oops!:o

+1, a wooden spoon is by far the best way to simplify the cutting of the potatoes.

Being of Swedish descent, I ate these potatoes often while growing up, but I have to admit that until today I had no idea what they were officially called. We just called them "Swedish potatoes" and my mom used her grandma's recipe (which just called for breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and butter as a topping, delicious!).

No, these potatoes are quarterbacks... and one has a wife who's on The View.

I can't visualize this cutting the potatoes in a wooden spoon.

Do you mean to fit the potato width into the hollow of the spoon and then cut? I can see that if the potato fit into the hollow of the spoon that the outside boundaries of the spoon would prevent the knife from cutting through the entire potato.

But that would have to be a very wide spoon in order for a potato to fit into it.

Or have I misunderstood?

Can't wait to try the potatoes, however. They sound wonderful.

How to cut videos

Chopsticks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZye0CO6z8g
cutting boards - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZuQFBV2zo
Wooden spoon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qcteFZkmuc
and my favorite - skewer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF7lo...eature=related

This thread motivated me to look at some recipes, and... I don't get it. What's the appeal?

Seems to me, I'd rather have a baked potato with all the fixins any day over these. I must be missing something... what is it? :confused:

Baked potatoes, generally soft on the inside. These go crispy, almost a cross between a good roast potato and a baked potato.

I thought that these were some sort of gluten-free potatoes, since Elizabeth Hasslebeck doesn't eat gluten because she has celiac disease.

Thanks to this thread I was motivated enough to make some tonight, they were wonderful.