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Best roasting potato?

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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Dovefromabove too right mate!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2020

    Today’s Maris Pipers roasted for 45 mins at 180C fan.  They were really crunchy 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    They do look really crunchy and delicious. I’m going to take the time and make them properly at some point. I don’t parboil them, just peel them toss them with salt, oil and smoked paprika and bake them on the highest setting. They vary in quality but the red rooster I’ve used last were quite delicious. Not as crunchy as yours though.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited December 2020
    Parboiling is essential to get the right textured cruchy coating in my experience (I'm often lazy and do it your way, @B3 but they are never as good.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @Dovefromabove - they look amazing. I promise that my oven doesn't do that. But I will test it in the next few days.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    edited December 2020
    I only do roast potatoes once a year so this thread has been particularly useful today ;) 

    Mine could've done with being in a shade longer but everything else was ready so out they came. Met with general approval so job done until 25.12.21 :)

    PS they were King Edward's
    East Lancs
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I use Carolus for roasties, not a variety that is easy to buy. But "baking" potatoes don't really exist here, we get some imported British Esima horrible watery things in my opinion and they cost around £1.20 each!
    So if you can't manage roasties try some traditional Danish "brown potatoes" take some sugar make it into caramel in a frying pan, next take a JAR/TIN of new potatoes and throw them in, cover in caramel sauce and serve with duck, don't forget the plain boiled potatoes and the ready salted crisps as well..
    (PS I kid you not that IS the traditional Danish Christmas meal)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Do you think they'd go with chocolate coated sprouts @Skandi😋
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Ours were nice, Maris Piper and I bought a jar of goose fat from Tesco.  I don’t crisp them up quite as much as Doves, teeth might not stand it! 
    I think our oven,  being Propane is quite a damp  heat,  lovely for fruit cakes though. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    B3 said:
    Do you think they'd go with chocolate coated sprouts @Skandi😋

    🤮 Oh yes perfect! .... right up there with toffee onions on a stick...

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