Baking potatoes?

sunbat

Hi all

I have just bought a bag of baking potatoes which were going cheap. I need 3 of them for baking but what can I do with the rest? Am I right in thinking I can use them for potato wedges? If so, the next question is when is the best time freeze wedges - after cooking or before?

Thanks

SB

LJM

if i have 2 many i do make wedges or mash or roast with skins on ive never frozen mine so im not sure i would have thought you could freeze once cooked as shop bought are partial cooked anyway

foxgloves

You can do anything with baking potatoes that you can do with any other type of potato except new potatoes. While some varieties of potato do 'bake' better than others, they are usually just big potatoes, nothing special, so they will boil, mash, wedge, fry, bake, make potato bread, and just about anything else.

sunbat

Brilliant - thank you! They were a good buy in that case then as it saves me having to buy a bag of "ordinary" white potatoes this week

SB

zippychick

Hi Sunbat

there is a thread which discusses the difference in baking potatoes and normal potatoes - here

Also perfect baked potatoes may offer help and suggestions as will freezing half baked potatoes

I'll add your thread to the first link later:)

thanks
Zip

Grimbal

I use baking potatoes in a very easy recipe if you'd like it?

I chop the baking potatoes into wedges, toss in a little vegetable oil & bake in the oven until cooked. Then I spoon over a tub of fresh salsa (from the chiller cabinet - not the stuff in long life jars) & grated cheese. pop them back in the oven until cheese melts. Its really easy & is lovely! I've also mixed through a tin of kidney beans with the salsa to give a bit more protein too.

Liz
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mardatha

Asda sent baking potatoes instead of new pots - we dont like baked potatoes. How else can you cook them? Will they roast ?

Trow

Yes, they will roast/boil/mash etc.

They are just bigger potatos, and will do what any other potato will do. I would recommend making oven chips with them...

Pink.

Hi mardatha,

As trow says you can use baking potatoes in the same way as you would use any other potato. The only difference between them is that they are larger and usually you pay a premium for them.

There was a recent thread on this subject:

Baking potatoes?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the replies together.

Pink

mardatha

ok, thats great- many thanks !

spike7451

Tesco sell packs of three baking spuds for a few pence & I buy them instead of a big bag,reason is it'd take me a month to use a normal bag & I like the bigger spuds for chips ect plus one spud=one portion mash,for me anyway.
It's a marketing ploy when in reality they're all the same.
Ask yourself this,when your mom went shopping to the local greengrocers,she got the spuds from a big hessian sack.Do you remember mom selecting spuds on what they were for or for the size?I remember the latter.
The only time you used to see different spuds was because of the seasons.