ASDA Rudolph Variety Red Potatoes--Yuck!!!

cairndog

Have been using Asda Red Potatoes @ £2 and found them pretty good. Keep well and make nice mash, but then they changed the variety to Rudolph and they are rubbish.! Do not buy.!
I was using them to top a very large cottage pie for family visit but they were soggy and sticky and would not dry out to give decent creamy, fluffy, mash. I tried everything, endless stirring over a low gas, butter with hot milk etc but same horrible wet result.
I've used most of the bag but will definitely be taking rest back to complain.
Trouble is all they'll do is give me a refund but I want the Produce Manager to know and get another variety.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Thanks. I steer clear of A S T M and the Co Op.

PasturesNew

When the label just says "red potatoes" they do tend to be nastier and waxy as a rule of thumb.

Whites tend to be fluffier.

I do wish they'd go back to putting proper names on them, rather than just white/red as that's not very helpful.

Alice_Walker

The in store manager will have no say as to where produce is sourced. You'd be best to email or call customer services at head office and ask for your feedback to be passed to the relevant buyer.

Even if they do take on board your comments, they're not going to have any effect until the next contracts are negotiated. So you're probably looking at next year, if not longer, for any change.

agrinnall

PasturesNew wrote: »

When the label just says "red potatoes" they do tend to be nastier and waxy as a rule of thumb.

Whites tend to be fluffier.

I do wish they'd go back to putting proper names on them, rather than just white/red as that's not very helpful.

But ASDA have put the name on them, Rudolph. According to this article they are ideal for mashing, so maybe the OP just got a bad batch.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/spuds-we-like-why-potatoes-are-flavour-of-the-month-1874052.html

If you're referring to the practice of not naming potatoes more generally, I'm not sure where you are buying from as everywhere I use does name them now (although I now have an allotment and I'm using home grown Pentland Javelin and Maris Piper).

JuliaBalbilla

Just a word in defence of Rudolph potatoes! I have no idea what they are like for mashing, but for roasting, they are brilliant - better even than Maris Piper and King Edwards. Sadly, I have been unable to get them for the last couple of years as our Asda no longer stocks them.

I don't know why the article in The Independent suggests that they are suitable for mashing, because they were in fact advertised as being roasting potatoes.

SpammyTheSpammer

They are really good for roasting NOt so great for mash,

SpammyTheSpammer

Bought a packet of these a couple of days ago. Stated "Grown in CAMBS by David Chambers".
Some were wormy, requiring surgical-level peeling.
Were not that great boiled and hadly any better as chips. Will not buy those again....

roddydogs

Isnt any Veg or fruit a bit "Hit or miss", even if its the same name? Except Bananas which alway taste the same!

SpammyTheSpammer

It's just that when you pay well over the odds for something, you do expect it to be a bit betterer. or is that just me?

Ectophile

roddydogs wrote: »

Isnt any Veg or fruit a bit "Hit or miss", even if its the same name? Except Bananas which alway taste the same!

That's because there is only one variety of banana sold in the shops in the UK. The chances are that if you were born since the 1960's, you've only ever eaten Cavendish bananas.