In food recipes, when it says ';scrub the potato'; what does it mean ?

you need to scrub the skin to get any excess dirt off just clean it real good and it's fine.In food recipes, when it says ';scrub the potato'; what does it mean ?
Clean it....In food recipes, when it says ';scrub the potato'; what does it mean ?
To use a vegetable brush and scrub it clean under water, but dont scrub so hard as to remove the skin itself....then on the end of a potato peeler there is a potato eye remover....use this to remove the eyes ( the buds on the skin) and you're done.
The same thing as 'dress the chicken'
Means softly scrub the skin with a soft vegetable brush. This clean the skin as they are grown in the dirt. I just rub well with my hands under the faucet if I can't find a brush.
Potatos are grown underground. When you scrub them, you remove the dirt and some of the skin. When you buy them at the store they have been rinsed, but not really scrubbed.
Clean it vigorously.
scrub... Verb


to scrub (third-person singular simple present scrubs, present participle scrubbing, simple past scrubbed, past participle scrubbed)





Infinitive


to scrub


Third person singular


scrubs


Simple past


scrubbed


Past participle


scrubbed


Present participle


scrubbing








(transitive): To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.


(Intransitive): To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.


(transitive): To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
Use a vegetable brush and rub the potato with it under running water to clean it.
Clean it very well, preferably with a scrubbing brush. You usually do this with new potatoes, which you don't normally peel.
ummm take a veggie brush rub the heck out of it under water.
clean it..