La Ratte
Solanum tuberosum · Tuber
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La Ratte is a small, knobbly heirloom fingerling potato with a slender, curved kidney shape, smooth pale-yellow skin and dense, waxy golden flesh prized for an unusually rich, nutty, chestnut-like flavour. A low-yielding "gourmet" cultivar, it is the potato made famous by chef Joël Robuchon's silky purée.
Picking a good onedrag
Freshly liftedSprouting and green
Cured and dormantBuy the sackThe keeper — roast, mash, fry, bake, anything
SkinSet firm, dry, matte
FleshFirm right through
EyesDimpled but dormant
SmellFaint, almost nothing
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What you get from one
75%
Edible part
213 g · peel and eyes out
284 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
Below about 4°C starch turns to sugar, so it fries dark and bitter. Warming partly helps.
95–99%
Humidity
Steady
Airflow