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Potatoes
Steve137
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I've been cooking my family stews for 30 years but lately some of my stews have th r potatoes go to mush.
I cook them the same way with the same stuff in them and as I said only in some cooked the same amount of time but the potatoes break down to mush thickening the stew. Noe they still taste nice but I enjoy lumps of potato and don't like them turning to mush so what the hells going on with the potatoes?
Cheers. Steve
PS Don't say cook them separately as I didn't have to in the past.
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hi steve when you over boil some types of spuds the skins burst try and boil some (but don't over boil ) then put then last half hour of stew the type of sets I use and swear by them are cara.s maincrop but I try and not over boil hope it helps you say you have tried are they the same type of spuds you use nornmally
all spuds cook differently. Some cook to a mush, some go from hard to disintegration in a second. Some stay whole however long you boil them.
As Michael asked, are they a different variety?
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It looks as though this is Steve 137's first post, so it's not clear whether or not he actually grows his own crop. I know that lots of shoppers don't actually look at the label on the bag of potatoes when they buy them, and since there are so many more different types available these days perhaps he's been buying a variety which he's not used before and hadn't realised.
Ref Cara - I used to buy them but have noticed that these past few years they've not been for sale in the normal supermarkets. Presumably the commercial growers have abandoned them and have turned to other varieties for increased disease resistance and higher yield. Although "new potatoes" are grown commercially round here, the others are a variety for a well-known brand of frozen chips..
hi hypercharleyfarley I get mine from a seed merchant in Scotland jba just putwww.jba .com and you will get site I useualy pay about £27 and even with carrage better than £4 to 6 pound for 2 kilos if you are lucky and they are cheaper and better than most I use mysets from start 3 times then change next year I am trying a new type kondor you can reuse over and over according to makers the bloke who grew the largest onion 18 lbs grew a spud 4lbs you will not want many on your plate hope it helps h.c.f Michael for( 25kilos(
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