https://scoutfin.net/tags/food/ Recent content in Food on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:26 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-08-09-why-only-the-skin-gets-hot/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:26 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-08-09-why-only-the-skin-gets-hot/ Industrial potato peeling works by putting the potato under twenty bar of steam and then opening the door. The skin blows off. Which raises a question nobody asks: why doesn’t the whole potato cook? The answer is one equation, it explains searing and firewalking too, and it is the reason the machines are built the way they are.