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Are these potatoes for the bin?

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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    No problem eating them.

  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Eat them up!  I would wash and dry them indoors and store in a paper bag in the dark (a cupboard would do) until ready to cook them.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2023
    They’ll be fine to eat. As with all new potatoes best eaten asap rather than stored. Wash and rub the skins off. Boil, with a sprig of fresh mint if available, until you can pierce them with a dinner fork (probably 10-15 mins as they’re small), drain and toss with a knob of butter and eat … fight everyone else off … they’re the food of the gods. Enjoy! 

     Fabulous with mayo and chopped spring onions as a potato salad too. 

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





  • StephenSouthwestStephenSouthwest Posts: 635
    Absolutely safe to eat.
    Store them cool and dark.
    I tend not to wash them till I'm eating them.
    Eat smallest and damaged or blemished first.
    Cut off any green flesh.
    Enjoy!
  • Sam 37Sam 37 Posts: 1,271
    StephenSouthwest said:
    Absolutely safe to eat.

    We will do that today.  won't have to store them!
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    edited June 2023
    Mine were the same as yours, pulled them yesterday and cooked them this morning ready for a lunchtime time salad, providing they last that long, it's pretty safe to say I've had new potatoes for breakfast 😃


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