If a restaurant menu states, "We cook off our potatoes," what in the heck does that mean? A truck driver who encountered such an announcement at a roadside cafe is still puzzling over what it means to "cook off" a tuber. He phones in to hash it out.
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Grant Barrett said:
If a restaurant menu states, "We cook off our potatoes," what in the heck does that mean? A truck driver who encountered such an announcement at a roadside cafe is still puzzling over what it means to "cook off" a tuber. He phones in to hash it out.
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Sorry about that last post. I hit go accidentally. Anyway, I wonder if the potatoes were mashed. Our family drains the cooked potatoes and then sets them back on the burner and turns it off (electric) to "cook them off" before mashing them. This keeps them from being watery.
Probably off-topic: WHAT _IN_ THE HECK - In iTunes, the description for this podcast episode says, "...what in the heck does that mean?" I have heard both "What the hell..." and "What in hell..." and "What the heck..." but not "What _in_ heck..." or "What _in the_ heck..." Can you tell us about that usage?
I've heard the phrase "cook off" but usually in reference to something like bacon, as in to cook off the fat.