How Do You Cut a Sweet Potato
You have choices. Do you want fries? Or do you want rounds for roasting?
For fries (or "batons"), cut the potato in half crosswise first. Then slice into planks, then into sticks.
For rounds, just slice the whole potato into discs. Easy. But you need the flat base we made first.
The "Solo" Cut: The Dreaded Whole Potato
Some recipes ask for a whole, baked sweet potato. You just poke it with a fork, right?
Wrong. You must deeply stab it. Get that fork in there. You’re sending steam signals to the center.
How to Cut Sweet Potatoes - It's a Veg World After All®
If you don’t, it might explode in your oven. Yes, really. It’s a sugary bomb waiting to happen.