/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Since don't much like sweet potatoes, I will stick with good ol yellow taters.

You can't even compare them. It's like comparing cheese and ice cream.

I mash them together.

>>5729494
This

Russet Potatoes all the way.

>>5729494
cheese is clearly superior to ice cream

>>5729494
I know

Cheese is way better

>>5729494
But ice cream is terrible.

>>5729488
two very different things. I can appreciate both sometimes.

As far as nutrition goes, sweet potatoes are by far the better choice. Regular potatoes have more culinary applications, though.

>>5729508
>>5729528
>>5729554
potato wins

>>5729828
Bullshit. There isn't anything a potato that a sweet potato can't do just as well, but sweet potatoes have an extended roster of desert options that potatoes don't usually do.

>>5730349
>desert options

Sweer potato clearly wins here

Sweet potatoes by far. Way better nutrition and usually tastes better too, and there's more kinds of sweet potatoes.

>>5730370
> there's more kinds of sweet potatoes
[citation needed] there probably 100 kinds of nonsweet potatoes

>>5730352
Yes, the sweet potato's caloric and nutritional superiority to the regular potato make it ideally suited to trail rations meant for long treks into arid sandy lowlands.

It can also be adapted to a number of sweet after-dinner food options due to its natural sweetness.

>>5729494
>>5729494
>>5729494

>>5730375

But they're all basically the same thing. One's big, one's small, one's crusty, one's smooth, but they taste the same

>>5730417
uh no

You guys make the potato seem like it's shit. It's not. It's highly nutritious, maybe not as much as a sweet potato, but then again, sweet potatoes are the most nutritional vegetable there is. gold yukon baby Potatoes with thyme and rosemary with some butter are beyond belief, no sweet potato can pull that off.

>>5730460

White potatoes don't seem very nutritious. Putting butter on them just makes them seem like even worse of an option, although delicious

>>5729488
The consumer.

>>5729809
>I can appreciate both sometimes
So you're what they call a "versatile". interesting

>>5730473
Potatoes get a bad rap, especially because of all the retarded low carb bullshit that's embedded itself in our food culture, but they're actually very nutritious.

They're high in vitamin B6, potassium, copper, vitamin C, manganese, phosphorus, niacin, fiber, pantothenic acid. They contain compounds that can help lower blood pressure and fight cancer.

Try and say it's "empty calories," I'll knock your fucking teeth out.

If people swapped out their boiled eggs for boiled potatoes, public health would improve significantly.

>>5730349
but I need the normal potatos too because I like the way they taste without being sweet. all is precious.

>>5730417
>but they all taste the same

NO.

they look and feel and taste very differently.

>>5730482
I can have trouble if someone isn't honest with me. give me a sweet potato and tell me its a sweet potato, okay. give me a pie and call it pumpkin pie, yet its filled with sweet potato, not okay.

I did however really enjoy the matrix movies.

>>5730616
additionally I have no problem with sweet potato pie but prefer pumpkin pie.

It's camote you gringos.

>>5730505
I agree. People think potatoes are crap, because french fries are - no one is saying you should eat that acralamyde infested shit. Blue, yukon, russet, white etc. potatoes are very good and along bananas one of your major sources of potassium. Low potassium is very bad, and all these low carbers suffer from hypokalemia.

>>5730627
my nugga. been listening to the doctor I see.

>>5730627

It's okay, they can just get illegal doses of potassium from their doctors

>>5730505
>If people swapped out their boiled eggs for boiled potatoes, public health would improve significantly.
>Dietary cholesterol effects blood cholesterol

Eggs are the closest thing to a perfect food you can get from a single source, nutritionally wise.

>>5730682

Go away, egg industry marketing team

>>5730682
B T F O

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>>5730682
wow its amazing how fast you people find things on the internet and post here. I kindly and humbly request that you let us grow in wisdom and health so that the world becomes a happier and better place for us all.

Potatoes win, but damn if caramelised roasted sweet potato isn't a thing of beauty.

>>5729494
>cheese is better than ice cream
and thus,
>potato is better than sweet potato

Way too different to compare imo
I think just regular potato is tad more versatile in the end but not by much and it's also about individual taste.

>>5730349
Sweet potato doesn't really go that well as a side with say stews and shit and sometimes add undesired sweetness to soups and mashed taters.
But that's really opinions so eh

>>5729488
You can't make a proper roast potato with sweet potatoes. Once you drop below that tier of food they're both pretty great.

>>5730684
Eggs are legit pretty great if you keep a couple of chickens. This relies on having space and being around to let them roam and generally take care of the little shits, but they're cool kinda-pets if you have kids.

Plain sweet potato with a bit of cayenne sprinkled on it is amazing.

>>5730847
I like sweet potatoes in my side dishes when serving a nice roast, usually it'll just be a simple, oven-cooked mixture of sweet potatoes, beets and other root vegetables like that cut up, and then with some kind of oil and vinegar poured over. The nutty flavour of parsnip in particular I find goes well with sweet potatoes.
Then as the "main carb" I'll have some fresh, regular potatoes boiled, then roasted for a short while on the pan with plenty of salt, and then serve it all with a really nice, heavy gravy and maybe a light salad.

>>5729494

Potatoes and cheese.
Anything else is objectively wrong.

>>5729488
red's are only staple potato in this house.

anyone ever eat a blue potato?

I love sweet potatoes. Sometimes my main starch during a meal is a baked sweet potato, super tasty and good for you.

>>5730682
lol, no. I was taught this to in some animal ag class, but potatoes are healthier than eggs. Has there ever been an experiment done with athletes only eating eggs and getting along just fine? Nope, but there has been one done with potatoes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1252113/pdf/biochemj01140-0284.pdf

>>5730719
The thing is that to get the most nutritionally out of sweet potatoes you need to boil them AND eat the skins. The skins taste awful though and the flesh tastes better baked.

>>5730847
>You can't make a proper roast potato with sweet potatoes

>>5733631
no, ive eaten purple though

>>5733724
what was it like? I have had the blue and purple chips and they taste great but give me a stomach ache after.

I would love to try the actual whole blue and purple potatoes to cook on my own at home, but I can't find them at all anywhere, not even organically even.

>>5733961
Nothing special really

>>5733967
its special TO MEEEEEE

please tell me

>>5729505
Yes sir

>>5733981
it not much different than many other potatoes

>>5733961
I'm not that guy but to me it tasted the potato was sweetened using berries rather than regular old sweet potato which tastes a bit more like a sugary sweetness.

>>5733988
We must be thinking about different things. The purple potatoes were more like a regular potato than a sweet potato

>>5734007
These? Okinawan sweet potatoes right? There was definitely sort of a berry taste to it for me.

>>5734016
Nope, Im talking about Peruvian potatoes

>>5734023
My bad then.

>>5733985
but how is it different besides being blue or purple? please describe the taste in comparison to a normal potato

>>5734016
wow so we have
>normal potatoes
>blue and purple normal potatoes

>normal sweet potatoes and other similar things
>blue and purple versions of those

just like carrots! wow!

>>5734030
Thats what Im fucking saying, its really not

>>5734037
I don't believe you, I just don't. I don't know why but I sense that you are wrong.

I feel that I know there is a taste difference, but better noticed from cooking my own than the strange flavor in the blue chips...

>>5734057
whatever autist. All starchy potatoes taste the same with small differences and all waxy taste the same with small differences. Its just slightly different in the same way that they are all slightly different

>>5734057
also want to add that ive eaten these and cooked with them many times and had them many differnt ways.

Maybe you should consider that its whatever is in the chip that makes it so much different or even some form of placebo

There is nothing vastly different about them. Its like corn. There are lots of different types of corn and they all taste a little different but they still all taste like corn,

>>5734034
are you being sarcastic, anon

>>5734096
No way, look it up. not lying.

>>5734080
>>5734087
>chain smoker detected

>>5734116
No, are you trying to say that all corn and potatoes dont taste like corn and potatoes with slight differences?

>>5734120
you say that there are slight differences but you also make it seem as if those differences are not important. they are very important, and yes corn still tastes like corn and potatoes still taste like potatoes but they do taste more than just slightly different depending on the variety.

>>5729488
Potato, easily. Far, far more potential.

>>5730505
A boiled yukon gold is a fine meal on its own. No seasoning or condiments necessary, not even butter.