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▪ Irish Potato Famine: https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine
▪ US Most Popular Potato Varieties: https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/109699/Potato-Type-Map.png?v=9701.9
▪ Alex Potato Chip Series: https://youtu.be/Ezl_bbl9EPI?si=pxdaFVf5a2ll5Ll1&t=579
▪ Red Potato Nutrition Data: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2346402/nutrients
▪ Russet Potato Nutrition Data: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2346401/nutrients
▪ Yukon Gold Potato Nutrition Data: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2346403/nutrients
▪ Amylose Potato Content: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26931799/
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
2:51 Potato History
6:43 What are the 4 common Potato varieties?
8:46 The 5 Potato Molecules
10:18 What’s the difference between Sweet Potatoes & Regular Potatoes?
14:06 What are the two types of starch in potatoes?
18:01 Taste
21:36 Aroma
27:00 Sight
27:54 Physical
28:54 Texture
38:09 Human – My favorite Potatoes
39:05 Outro & Conclusion
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20 Comments
Where do I put low carb spuds in all this?
I wondered about potato salad
Ethan, it would be great to learn which variety is healthier from the standpoint of whether they are GMO and whether manufacturers use pesticides to grow them. I have never seen organic russet potatoes, but often organic gold ones in the US.
Yeah you got to love how much of a liar chat GPT is lol it's almost like if he didn't know the answer you wouldn't know it was lying other than that you know it's lying usually.
The Irish Potato Famine was caused by Britain colonising Ireland, stealing and exporting all of their valuable crops and produce, and forcing the Catholic Irish workers to subsist on almost exclusively potatos. Throughout the famine, Ireland was a large producer of foodstuffs, most of which was taken by the Brits and shipped under military force to England.
Here in CANADA, and specifically in the Province of Prince Edward Island, we have far more variety of potatoes available between May to November.
In Finland when you're choosing potatoes in the grocery store, the bags on potatoes have information to let you know what they're best suited for. I just look at that information.
Right now I have some medium firm Colomba, but some classic Linda or Gala always do well.
Never seen a Russet in my life, and never heard of a cultivar named "white"
Even McD uses not just those bit also Innovator and Zorba.
Usually I enjoy these deep dives because they have some new to me information or because I hadn't thought of it that way. This one though? I hadn't realized nearly how differently you taste things! You didn't mention the astringency I always perceive from every preparation of red potatoes, or the mild buttery umami from the Yukon Gold! Russet are a more dry and mealy blanker slate on which to work.
Who is your supplier, what grocery store did you get those potatoes from? I could feed my entire family with one of those massive potatoes! PLEASE YOU HAVE TO TELL ME
Those are some bombass socks! I'll let myself out…
4:18 You can do the same with rice. 😛
gold potato is terryble
If you blanch your potato chips first, they fry much more evenly.
When i make Italian potato croquettes, the recipe says old and starchy. So, would that be an old Yukon? But do they have those in Italy?
This is such a Hobbit thing to do. Staying up late and watching a long video about potatoes.
Potatoes conquered the world
its a scratsch over potatos because there are thousends of variations of potatos out and only a few percent is in the market.. for the potato fries test, what i missed was a test with all 3 potatoes rosted to the same color test…
Okay, it's stupid, but Umatilla is pronounced "YOU-ma-TIL-uh" and I only care because I live 20 minutes away from a town by that name. It's on the border of Washington and Oregon. Tiny little town on the Oregon side, just across the Columbia River from Plymouth, Washington.
I rarely make these "correction" types of comments. I'm so sorry. >.< I'm kind of weird when it comes to words. I have to hold myself back. I just thought you would want to know? Maybe? Gosh, I'm still sorry though.
I loved this video, I learned a lot for someone who has lived around potato farmers most of my life!! I've been sharing the heck out of your content lately. SO MUCH valuable information, and it's presented in a way that actually manages to STICK for me.
night shade and morning glory are such cool names for plant families