Yukon Gold potato
Solanum tuberosum 'Yukon Gold' · Tuber
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Yukon Gold is the Canadian-bred cultivar that put yellow-fleshed potatoes on the North American table: a round-oval tuber with thin, smooth gold skin and buttery yellow flesh, and a medium-starch, genuinely all-purpose texture that boils, mashes, roasts and fries with equal ease.
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