Grating potatoes

[warpig3]

If I wanted to grate potatoes to make rosti or hash browns do I need to rinse the starch off or is it better not to (for sticking purposes)?

ta muchly
warpig

[grasscarp]

You have to get the water out of them and that is the hard part. Plenty of kitchen roll and squeezing involved.

[warpig3]

thats the thing grasscarp, the recipe says 'grate potatoes, place in a sieve and squeeze out any excess water', which is fine but when I am doing anything with potatoes I always rinse them to remove excess starch (force of habit perhaps), maybe its not so important in this method.

[Rollo]

If you mean rinse the potatoes after you have grated them, then no. Don't do it.

I would par boil the pots (10 minutes). Let them cool. Then grate them. Then sprinkle them with salt and squeeze them in a clean cloth to get rid of the excess moisture. That help to stop them going soggy when you fry them.

[warpig3]

Yes rollo, thats what I meant. Many thanks.