20 Uses for the Lowly Potato

I was browsing the internet and came upon 10 Extraordinary Uses for Potatoes. It is fascinating!

Potatoes are definitely some of my favorite things for many reasons but I did not know they could be used for all of the things on this list.  So I started looking around for OTHER uses of the potato. Being an overachiever I listed a few more.

20 Uses for the Potato 

1. Mock Maple Syrup is another amazing creation I found and plan to try.
2. Apply raw potato to burns to take away the pain
3. If  you over salted your stew or soup just toss a sliced potato in there.  Set aside for ten minutes.  The potato will have absorbed the extra salt.
4. Dry your potato parings in the dehydrator and use them as kindling.
5. If a light bulb breaks in the socket use a cut potato to unscrew it.  Just push the potato over the jagged edges of the bulb and unscrew.
6. Soak tarnished silver in potato water to remove tarnish.
7. Rub the cut edge of a potato on a wart daily and it will go away.
8. Root geraniums.  Just take a potato and cut a hole  down through it but not all the way through.  Push a  geranium stem into the potato and plant the whole thing in potting soil. Soon you will have a  new geranium.
9. Make a Potato Battery 
10.  Make Smoky smashed potatoes for Cathy’ s Potato Ho Down.
11. Make stamps by carving a design on the cut edge of a potato and dipping it in ink.
12. Toss a thick slice of raw potato in oil to clarify it after frying.
13. Toss a slice in clear broth or gravy to clarify it.
14. Make potato beads
15. Use potato water to rinse your face.  It is very anti aging.
16. Irish Potato Candy
17. Make wine
18. Help you sleep, just eat mashed potatoes with a glass of milk before bed.
19. Make Sour dough starter
20. Even more uses for the potato