Batteries, potato skins, eggshells

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Just to keep this thread on track, I scrub unpeeled potatoes with a vegetable brush before baking, then eat the whole thing, skin and all. My Irish roots I guess, but there is fiber in the skin.

Hand scrub before baking . . . and when we do a New England dinner, pot roast, etc. we always leave the peelings on the carrots and potatoes . . . less work, more flavorful.
 
Haven't heard of those things doing any real good for creosote, but the saved eggshells are good to plant under tomatoes to help prevent BER (blossom end rot).
 
Just to keep this thread on track, I scrub unpeeled potatoes with a vegetable brush before baking, then eat the whole thing, skin and all. My Irish roots I guess, but there is fiber in the skin.
The skin is maybe my favorite part
 
They say that eating potato skins is healthy and helps keep your arteries clean, perhaps it works the same way for your chimneys :p
Problem is, if I put all my potato skins in the wood stove I'll have to start using my chimney brush on my arteries, and that doesn't sound like fun to me. <>
 
A cleaner.. something something phosphate.
 
Any hardware store.

Trisodium Phosphate.
 
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