the heat of the potatoes will help them absorb the vinegar and will season the potato all the way through. then you will have a perfectly seasoned potato with which to make your potato salad. you get where i’m going?
now give them a decent shower of salt and pepper, toss again and just go read the paper or something until they get completely cool.
or i suppose you could use this time to perfectly hard-boil some eggs, chop some celery, chop some onion, some parsley, peel the eggs, and chop the eggs. but whatever.
you know how to hard-boil and egg don’t you? eggs in pan. cover with cold water. on medium-high 