Opinion please

Donald Lehman · Aug 9, 2015

I tried some Yukon Gold taters this year. Started digging up a few. First impression: Great for mashed taters and not much else. Fall apart boiled. I expect they will fall apart canned also. Anybody have any experience with how long they keep? Any one try making french fries or chips out of this variety?

Bob Harvey · Aug 9, 2015

We get some at the grocery now and then - they seem to bake or BBQ O.K.

tim s · Aug 9, 2015

I have tried them from the grocery, and I don't like them..

Steven-Id · Aug 9, 2015

The Arctic Circle fast food chain uses yukon gold for their french fries. My kids love them. I call them yucky gold fries, I don't like them. I guess to each his own.

Steven

fixerupper · Aug 9, 2015

We grow Yukons and love them but we don't can them so I can't give an opinion on canning.
We have had success storing them up to ten months where it's cool and dark. They are used for baking and mashed potatoes only.

Tx.Ricefields · Aug 9, 2015

My family really likes them......I slice them up, put in the frying pan, add some coconut oil, dice up a couple pieces of bacon, about a half onion and cook until the potatoes are browned....make you want to slap your mama!!

Richard G. · Aug 9, 2015

I grew them one year. Lots of disease problems for me. A friend grows them in TN and does well.
Richard in NW SC

moresmoke · Aug 9, 2015

I've never had a problem boiling them, you have to quit when done, can't leave them forever like a hard white. They probably won't can very well. (Make that at all). Yukon's are very good cut like fries and baked on a cookie sheet. Also very good skillet fried. Yukon's would be my second favorite potato after rose gold.

black · Aug 9, 2015

To me they are almost like Russets ( baking potatoes ) never cared for them and always grew red .

Larry --0nt

Texasmark1 · Aug 10, 2015

I just buy reds any more. Taste great and the other day read an article about reds vs whites. Didn't know the arthur but the line made
sense. Something about whites that's not in reds that your body doesn't like. I do buy OreIda frozen fast food f. fries however when
I'm frying catfish and hush puppies and all the trimmings. I saw a video on how these guys are made and really liked it. They fry up
good and crisp and don't taste mealy, something I don't like in a ff.

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