Can potatoes be soaked in the jackets successfully?

Question

I searched online and people write about soaking PEELED potatoes. Will the jackets fall off?

Has anyone ever soaked potatoes not peeled, but maybe cut? Is it the same for red and white potatoes?

Answer 1

I'm a little confused. (Typical!) Soaked for what purpose?

We cook our potatoes both with and without the peel, largely dependent on time and laziness. We don't soak them first, but we do drop them in the pot of water they'll be cooked in as we cut them up, to keep them from turning brown as they're exposed to the air. When we're making a big batch, I suppose the first ones in are well soaked.

When we cook our cut-up potatoes in water, the jackets do peel off easily once they're cooked through, so there's a second chance for no-skin there.

Red-skinned potatoes have a thinner skin than many kinds of white/tan skinned potatoes. I tend to buy white, butter, or Yukon Gold for mashing, red for potato salad or boiled potatoes, all thin-skinned varieties.