Does refrigerating potatoes change their taste?

[Barriehie]

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Me too. Uncooked whites - yuk. Runny yolks - ok.

Add more butter; it covers up the snotty whites!

 

[Barriehie]

 

[TastyReuben]

We always cut our potatoes in half and put three halves, eyes up, in the hole, then sprinkled a circle of fertilizer around them (you know, like you do when you’re trapping the devil in a circle of salt, same principle), then hilled up the dirt over them and that was that.

 

[badjak]

Potatoes don't grow well here. I think it's too hot, or maybe the termites eat them before they can grow.
Sweet potatoes do well

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Potatoes don't grow well here. I think it's too hot, or maybe the termites eat them before they can grow.
Sweet potatoes do well

Egypt grow milllions of metric tons of potatoes a year (something like 7 million) and china recently joined in growing potatoes in desert conditions. I remember seeing ‘Egypt’ on the front of a packet of salad potatoes and thinking how?
Apparently (if I’m remembering correctly) so long as the day and night temperatures are significantly different they will grow.
I also remember reading they coloured them with mud after harvesting for western markets because being grown in sand meant they were unnaturally white!

 

[msmofet]

But, I don't like the texture and flavor of potatoes after they have been stored raw in the refrigerator. I have noticed a difference in the flavor of mashed potatoes, slightly sweet, and I don't like sweet starchy stuff much (which is one of the reasons I don't like sweet potatoes or yams). Seems like hand-cut fried potatoes don't come out as crispy after being kept in the refrigerator. But my whole life everyone I ever knew kept potatoes in a cool, dark place so that's what I have always done (except for the few times I put them in the fridge and later regretted it). I have a spot in my pantry where they go.

I don't put potatoes in the fridge. I feel that the starch in the potatoes turns to sugar and the potatoes taste sweet to me. Don't like sweet mashed potatoes. Glad it's not just me that feels that way.

 

[badjak]

Egypt grow milllions of metric tons of potatoes a year (something like 7 million) and china recently joined in growing potatoes in desert conditions. I remember seeing ‘Egypt’ on the front of a packet of salad potatoes and thinking how?
Apparently (if I’m remembering correctly) so long as the day and night temperatures are significantly different they will grow.
I also remember reading they coloured them with mud after harvesting for western markets because being grown in sand meant they were unnaturally white!

Egypt is at the other end of the continent....
About 5000 km away

Potatoes are grown in Zambia, just not in my area.
The big local grower here is buya bamba

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Egypt is at the other end of the continent....
About 5000 km away

Potatoes are grown in Zambia, just not in my area.
The big local grower here is buya bamba

It was just an example of growing in extreme environments

 

[JAS_OH1]

Potatoes are grown in Zambia, just not in my area.
The big local grower here is buya bamba

TastyReuben could make a song out of that I'd bet.

 

[karadekoolaid]

@TastyReuben could make a song out of that I'd bet.

Beat him to it (although I'm sure he can come up with a better one )
"Uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube,
Uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube,
Out in Zambia, amazing Zambia,
Potatoes every night,
Buya bamba will make you happy,
Potatoes at good price
( sing along now!)
Uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube,"

 

[TastyReuben]

TastyReuben could make a song out of that I'd bet.

I was just about to point out the little known fact that Ritchie Valens was inspired to record “La Bamba” after seeing rare Zambian potatoes advertised on the TV:

Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
For all your potato needs,
For your family!
Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
Buy Buya Bamba!

 

[JAS_OH1]

I was just about to point out the little known fact that Ritchie Valens was inspired to record “La Bamba” after seeing rare Zambian potatoes advertised on the TV:

Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
For all your potato needs,
For your family!
Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
Buy Buya Bamba!

I knew thats the one you'd go for.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Beat him to it (although I'm sure he can come up with a better one )
"Uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube,
Uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube,
Out in Zambia, amazing Zambia,
Potatoes every night,
Buya bamba will make you happy,
Potatoes at good price
( sing along now!)
Uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube,"

I was just about to point out the little known fact that Ritchie Valens was inspired to record “La Bamba” after seeing rare Zambian potatoes advertised on the TV:

Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
For all your potato needs,
For your family!
Ba-ba-ba Buya Bamba!
Buy Buya Bamba!

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