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Potatoes
The potato is a starchy root vegetable that is a common and versatile ingredient in cuisines around the world.
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Is cassava more starchy than potato?
Yes. I just did a lab with regard to that exact question in biology yesterday. However, I do not know why cassava is more 'starchy' than potato.
Are white potatoes and New potatoes the same thing?
New potatoes are younger and therefore smaller, they also taste different.
What does peeling potatoes mean in sexual terms?
To peel a potato is to take off the outer brown layer of a potato.
Why would the potato contain starch?
it's a plastid. it stores food such as starches, proteins and lipids. it's in most plant cells. it's especially prominent in storage organs such as potato tubers.
A potato plant stores starch in the leucoplasts. The plants store these starches as food and nutrition for the next generation of potatoes.
Why do boiled potatoes not shrink?
Boiled potatoes do not shrink because the presence of water surrounding the potato is what keeps it saturated (full of) liquid, meaning that it cannot shrink (if it is submerged).
It is likely that there is some mineral or nutrient in potatoes that your body doesn't have enough of . . . your brain senses this and causes the craving.
Sailors in submarines during World War 2 had similar cravings, but for foods that were fresh and could not be taken on a submarine patrol.
When a submarine would get back from a patrol (a couple of months), they would find boxes of apples and oranges waiting for them. Sometimes there would be a couple of boxes of cabbages. The sailors would wolf down all they could of these foods that their kind commander ordered someone to place on the dock. The sailors had not been getting the minerals and nutrients in those foods.
Where is the potato listed on food pyramid?
No, potato chips would be in the "snack" or "unhealthy" section of the food pyramid.
Physically how big was the Intel Pentium chip?
Great, I just saw it yesterday, I think it was about 5cm long and wide, ABOUT*.
How many pounds of potatoes do you need for 300 people when making butter potatoes?
you need about 1200 normal sized potatoes!
Which country did hot potatoes come from?
---- ====== ====== I'm thinking not the right answer but I say the country potatoes come from is light, heat, and sound.
Is Potato plant a herb or sherb plant?
Neither. A potato is a plant with the potato in the ground under a green top.
How does a potato peeler work?
There are 4 simple machines in it a 2 wheel and axles a lever and a wedge
For home use, it is a small peeler machine required manual operation. For commercial use, it is a medium-sized machine that easy to operate.A China supplier named Twothousand Machinery sales good quality of potato peeling machines. Just sign in and check from source link
It could vary. Everybody would say french fries though. If you had ten french fries, baked and no salted, it would be better for you then say a baked potatoe in fatty butter and some cream cheese and garlic in the middle. Portion size. If you have more french fries, they are probaly not the best choice for a snack. Always go for low fat, low salt, and lo cal food, which ever that may be, depending on the situation.
Where in the world are potatoes grown and why are they grown there?
Origin of potatoes Andes mountains South America original name Papa which is Quechua. There are over 4000 verities of potatoes. Potatoes are grown all around the world. The Irish used to specialize in potatoes, but when they had the infamous Potato Famine, many thousands of Irish migrated to America. There is a commercial currently being shown for commercial potato chips that claims they use potatoes from California, Texas, Idaho, New England, Georgia, and I don't remember all the other places! My father used to grow them (a red all-purpose kind) in our backyard in Alabama.
Why are they grown all over? Probably because potatoes are really good food! They have good nutritional value, especially in the skins, and they are cheap to grow. They come in a wide variety of colors and sizes. My favorite potato taste is the Yukon Gold. "New" potatoes (in Alabama) are red all-purpose potatoes that are small (about 2" around) and fresh from the ground. Great simply boiled, with butter!
If you have any potatoes in your kitchen, you can pare them (that means cut the peelings off with a knife, without cutting deeply into the potato), cut the peelings into small squares with an "eye" on each square, and plant them in your own yard. The difference seems to be that the potato bits must be planted in wide-apart mounds. I don't know how far apart, how deep to plant, or how high to mound them. Those details can be obtained from your County Extension agent of the FHA, or some such place/people. When they are ready to harvest, they must be carefully dug up (don't cut into the potato flesh, if possible). My Dad found potatoes all spread across the planting area, in varying sizes from tiny to huge! Some are good for baking, some boiling, some for salad-making, or any way you want. Home-grown cannot be beaten.
When do you sow King Edward potatoes?
Hope this helps, but every year we set the date as March 17th in Ireland (St Patricks day!!).. Dig em in very deep (foot under ground level) and earth em up as they go. Never tasted anything as nice....
When were the first potato chip ever made?
From Wikipedia:
According to a traditional story, the original potato chip recipe was created in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. Agitated by a patron repeatedly sending his fried potatoes back because they were too thick, soggy and bland, resort hotel chef, George Crum, decided to slice the potatoes as thin as possible, frying them until crisp and seasoning them with extra salt. Contrary to Crum's expectation, the patron (sometimes identified as Cornelius Vanderbilt) loved the new chips and they soon became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name "Saratoga Chips". Alternative explanations of the provenance of potato chips date them to recipes in Shilling Cookery for the People by Alexis Soyer (1845) or Mary Randolph's The Virginia House-Wife (1824).
An Italian chef. He was serving french fries to a guy in his restaurant, and he thought the french fries were much too thick. So, he complained to the chef and asked him to chop them down. Then, the man loved them, so then everyone wanted them, and then became potato chips.
George Crum invented the potato chip.
George Crum died in 1914. He was 92 years old when he died.
How do you blanch potatoes for hash browns?
Put alot of butter or oil in a skillet. Season your hash brown with season salt and pepper. Cut up some onions and garlic and add them to your hash browns. Let them get a little brown and then flip them and repeat this until your hash browns are cooked. Then flip them one last time so the top can have a little crunch.
What is the iodine test for potato juice?
So that you can see the cells in the potato if your talking in Science terms
even though it is thought to be a vegetable potato's like corn are a starch part of the grain family :) happy potato researching
Is a potato a annual or perennial?
It is a perennial technically. However it will not survive a frost and in order to live to the next year outdoors it must be in a very warm climate. Most people in the US grow it as an annual.
What is the difference between parsnip and potato?
A parsnip is related to the carrot, native to Eurasia and is not grown in warm climates. The potato is a starchy tuber, is native to Peru and can be grown in warm climates.
What is a mashed potato serving called?
either a 'scoop' (neat little knob) or a 'dollop' (spoonful ker-splat) depending on the shape and consistancy of the mash.
either a 'scoop' (neat little knob) or a 'dollop' (spoonful ker-splat)
depending on the shape and consistancy of the mash.
