If the thought of scrubbing potatoes before you start cooking makes you want to nope out of dinner and head straight to the drive thru, we feel you. It's an added hassle, which is why we love this hack we saw on Heavenly Homemakers: Skip the sink and load your potatoes up in the dishwasher. You read that right, the dishwasher. A quick rinse in your dishwasher lets you focus on prepping the rest of the meal, cutting your cooking time down dramatically.
Here's how it works: Place your dirty potatoes on the top rack of an empty dishwasher and set it to the rinse-only cycle. (Make sure there's no soap in there first!) Turn it on, and walk away.
Our rinse cycle is only 11 minutes, so I turned on the dishwasher and finished cleaning up the kitchen. When I was done, I had clean potatoes waiting on me. I'll admit they weren't perfectly clean, but neither are my potatoes when I hand-wash them.
So the next time you have a lot of potatoes to wash (maybe for these garlic smashed potatoes) save your hands and use your dishwasher!
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