Salting any ingredient is a fine art, and this is especially the case for boiled potatoes. One overly generous move and, oops — you might as well have drowned them in seawater. Luckily, whether you ...

So many potato-based recipes start with the same step: “Boil the potatoes.” You see it time and again in recipes for mashed potatoes, potato salad, and more. But it’s not a straightforward technique.

A small handful of easy but important steps are the difference between boring old boiled potatoes and mind-blowingly delicious ones. It may seem like there's nothing to know about boiling potatoes, ...