Potatoes

[fred2007]

I just love potatoes, in a jacket, fried, mashed what ever but I always seem to get the same potatoes where ever I go to buy them. In the markets or supermarkets. Never any different ones just the normal

yellow ones ( which are just full of water ) Is there only one type in LOS or do I go to the wrong places ?

[Scott]

These are the only ones I've seen here. I get them all the time and I find them to be quite tasty. What kind did you want?

[fred2007]

These are the only ones I've seen here. I get them all the time and I find them to be quite tasty. What kind did you want?

well I don't know the names of the different types of potatoes but I do really like the red ones

Don't get me wrong I am not complaining I just wonder why you only get one type here

[lazeeboy]

a bowl of jersey royals and a knob of butter would do the trick

[fred2007]

a bowl of jersey royals and a knob of butter would do the trick

Thanks

[helitool]

I brought back fingerling potatoes with me a couple of months ago and gave them to our gardner to plant on some acreage he maintains for us. He says they sprouted but some of them have rotrd due to too much rain. It will be interesting to see if any of them make it. Don't know what season they plant them here. probably should have waited until the dry season. If you are every back in the west bring some varieties back with you and have a go at planting them they seem to like sandy soil.

Ray

[Chaimai]

I just love potatoes, in a jacket, fried, mashed what ever but I always seem to get the same potatoes where ever I go to buy them. In the markets or supermarkets. Never any different ones just the normal

yellow ones ( which are just full of water ) Is there only one type in LOS or do I go to the wrong places ?

have you thought of trying rice..... just for a change ?

[fred2007]

I just love potatoes, in a jacket, fried, mashed what ever but I always seem to get the same potatoes where ever I go to buy them. In the markets or supermarkets. Never any different ones just the normal

yellow ones ( which are just full of water ) Is there only one type in LOS or do I go to the wrong places ?

have you thought of trying rice..... just for a change ?

I do eat rice but then there is different grades as well it's just like asking about the best type of rice I guess

[sceadugenga]

I brought back fingerling potatoes with me a couple of months ago and gave them to our gardner to plant on some acreage he maintains for us. He says they sprouted but some of them have rotrd due to too much rain. It will be interesting to see if any of them make it. Don't know what season they plant them here. probably should have waited until the dry season. If you are every back in the west bring some varieties back with you and have a go at planting them they seem to like sandy soil.

Ray

It's not the rainfall, it's the soil drainage. You need light loam or sandy soil.

I have my potatoes ordered in, and get quite a variety. The qualities usually high but living close to the Mekong I suspect a lot come off the boats from China.

I've found that the flesh colour means more than the skin, the really white fleshed ones fry and roast best and the yellow fleshed are the mashers.

I've found the having a chat to the big veggy suppliers at the markets (through the Mrs if necessary) can work wonders. The potatoes I get are twice the quality and half the price of those available at the supermarkets.

Chaimai, rice is great but we're talking main course here, not desert.

[Chaimai]

Chaimai, rice is great but we're talking main course here, not desert.

Pagan Falang !

[fred2007]

Well guys I will not answer because I just got warned I talk to lot (different thread ) the mods have different oppinions If I ever anoyed you I am sorry

[Spee]

I brought back fingerling potatoes with me a couple of months ago and gave them to our gardner to plant on some acreage he maintains for us. He says they sprouted but some of them have rotrd due to too much rain.

Sounds like the same problem as during the Irish potato famine. There are varieties of potatoes that are supposed to do well in wetter climates. Maybe you just need a different type. I'm not a farmer or anything, it is just something that I saw on TV.

Yesterday, I watched a segment on the History Channel and was interested to be informed that like chiles and Thailand, potatoes aren't native to Ireland (or Europe for that matter). According to the story, potato seedlings were brought back to mainland Europe by early explorers after they found them in Peru.

After replacing grains as staples to many diets on the mainland, they were brought to Ireland for the same reason. The potato famine came about because the Irish settled on growing only one main type of potato and it happened to be the one that subject to rotting in wetter climate.

Learn something new every day ...

[JohnBKKK]

Hi,

am a potao lover, without trying to push our product, our mashed potatoes go down a treat, most people don't know how to cook potatoes - drowining them in a huge amount of water and boiling them rapidly as many have done for generations.

John

Potaoes are spposed to be cookked very slow in limited water

Edited September 24, 2008 by JohnBKKK

[suegha]

The Irish Potato famine was caused by the potato blight.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...ht%22&meta=

[DEREK-C]

The only place I know in LOS where potatoes grow well is on the slopes of Doi Ithanon. I've had newly harvested potatoes from there that were just like Cheshire's. The skin just came away when you squeezed them and the flesh was a milky white.

[Cuban]

Just in case you had some space and fancied having a go yourself, there is a current thread over in Farming Forum about small batches of potatoes. Mention of others in there somewhere.

[sceadugenga]

I got 10kg of great spuds from the market tonight.

Brown skinned and white fleshed, about 6 inches long and 2 inches thick and well encrusted with dirt.

I picked out a couple that were damaged before storing the rest in a cool dark place and had them mashed with a couple of Don's Foods superb English Banger sausages.

A meal fit for an expat king.

[Cuban]

.....also influenced by this very thread I bought a few kg from Tesco, currently on promotion 35 Baht a kilo or so ?

[tartempion]

I always buy my potatoes at the big food market 500m up Big C, Udon Thani, inside the last hangar, left side.

They come from China and the box mentions "Holland" variety, price varying 250-350B 10 kg box depending on season.

Best to cook and stamp to mashed potatoes. Had "oil explosion" last time I fried some in my electric frier. Think this can happen due to watery potatoes, very dangerous, lucky did jump away and not get burned

[scyriacus]

Well guys I will not answer because I just got warned I talk to lot (different thread ) the mods have different oppinions If I ever anoyed you I am sorry

don't worry, be happy.....you are not alone. just ask what 'rule' you have violated......

[scyriacus]

Hi, am a potao lover, without trying to push our product, our mashed potatoes go down a treat, most people don't know how to cook potatoes - drowining them in a huge amount of water and boiling them rapidly as many have done for generations. John Potaoes are supposed to be cooked very slow in limited water.

i always 'steam' them. lotus from 29 to 45 baht/kg depending on season are usually good. (in the market too many cockroaches). after steaming i love salad, roasted and mashed (depending on consistency)

[chickencurry]

I just love potatoes, in a jacket, fried, mashed what ever but I always seem to get the same potatoes where ever I go to buy them. In the markets or supermarkets. Never any different ones just the normal

yellow ones ( which are just full of water ) Is there only one type in LOS or do I go to the wrong places ?

I find the supermarket bought potatoes (Tesco) have no flavour, very watery. I now only buy from my local greengrocer and they are way, way tastier - certainly good for jacket potatoes, sauteed, boiled. Look the same as the supermarket ones but taste like homegrown. Maybe you should try some different (smaller?) greengrocers.