Using my long lost secret ingredient

What a lovely gentleman you are. I’m 47 but I cook like my Grandma Dolly… the “old fashioned” way and I love it. Everything homemade and from scratch. You can’t beat it. Xx

Just like my mother used to make and I'm nearly 70 years of age so you can imagine how long ago that was. Thanks for the memories.

After I par-boil, I drain and add to the saucepan a very small amount of a mixture of plain flour, salt and pepper, then shake well to ‘fluff’ and coat the potatoes. Then bake as usual. The fluffy outside holds the flour mix, and crisps perfectly during the bake. Ultra crispy, ultra golden roast potatoes. I’m 58, and my mother, (Born in England in 1928) always made them this way.

My dad was originally from the UK and took great pride making his special English oven roasted potatoes. It was the same elaborate process like this. Crispy outsides and fluffy tender insides. Everyone that tried them was absolutely smitten with them. Such Simple ingredients but the proper technique makes the difference. These are on the menu for tomorrow’s dinner.

Wonderfully generous to share this secret with the world. if there is a culinary heaven, you will be there, Sir. Thank you.

There's gonna be about a quarter million better Christmas dinners this year thanks to Mr. Paul! 😄

Dear Mr Paul, I’ve spent my entire afternoon watching all your amazing recipes. My husband and I are both elderly. I’m nearly 77 and my husband will be 80 this year. We live in South Africa, on a farm in the Western Province 300 km from Cape Town and plenty of time to cook. I’m so pleased to have found your website. All your recipes are wonderful, certainly has motivated me to improve my cooking skills. My son lives in Spain. They in Alicante now, but his partner is Spanish and working in Alicante, they live mainly in Seville though…. Love your dogs, we have a gorgeous rescue Staffie as well. Thank you! Kind regards, Pam Brash

Thank you so much Mr. Paul for taking the time to explain how and why you did each step of roasting the crispy potatoes. That’s the way I love to learn new methods of doing things. Some people don’t like to take the time to learn that way. They want the teacher to hurry up and spit out the instructions like slinging hash. They should find that type of channel and refrain from being rude to you and your way of teaching. So, please don’t let those rude people discourage you from being the excellent cooking instructor that you are!🤗😃❤️

It seems some old and formerly well known practical and helpful tips and techniques have somehow been forgotten. I'm 78 and remember my Mam and my Nana back in the 50s in Tyneside using bicarb. I'd forgotten that myself, since I rarely do roasts these days. My goodness. 😱 Thank you Mr Paul, I love that you share your professional cooking methods learnt from experience, so much wisdom! I know even at my age I've learnt a lot from your lovely videos. Much better than those long ago and dreaded home economics lessons.😊 Bless you!

Love how you integrate chemistry into your recipe.

Thank you for this video. My Mum used to make roast potatoes at Christmas. She cooked them in with the turkey, they were so, so good. My favourite part of the meal next to her stuffing. I could never perfect them. I think I might try again this year, in her memory ♥️

I am from the US and I agree those potatoes look like gold potatoes from the US. I have seen this method before. America’s test kitchen, which is a show on public TV in the US did potatoes like this. I did them a while back and they were delicious but I had forgotten this method. I believe I’m going to try them again this weekend.

Excellent. Truly enjoyed it and it’s a tip I won’t forget. I was born in Canada and we used to share tips that are long forgotten. We face the fact that true good cooking is almost a lost art. We need to take pride in our knowledge and share those special tips. God bless you.

Thank you for sharing your kitchen wisdom, Much old technique is lost or ignored today, but when we come together and share The knowledge all comes back.

I will certainly surprise my guests with these! They look delicious! Thanks for sharing your recipe.

Well baking soda! She never mentioned that but they certainly looked every bit as good as hers. I’m going to try it🥰🇨🇦

Wow I could hear the crunchiness. I’m definitely making those tonight to go with my chicken cacciatore! My husband absolutely loves crunchy potatoes and I finally found how to do it so thanks Mr. Paul ❤️

Kindest regards from across the pond Mr. Paul, my potatoes have always turned out dull and not crispy at all. A special thank you from America for sharing your process and secret ingredient

Beautiful potatoe recipe. Thank you for sharing your secret. It's the simple things that make the biggest differences.

Oh my goodness! Thank you Mr. Paul. I have long searched for this. When i was around 12 my mother dated a soldier who went all over the world. He held a huge banquet and had delightful crispy potatoes on it. He said he had learned them overseas, andhad whispered the secret to me, but in the years I had long forgotten! I searched high and low, and tried everything I could think of. Didn't think of using the baking soda, or lard. I will definitely try this. Thank you so much!