"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/15/2014 11:40 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:10:12 -0800 (PST), Kalmia
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, December 11, 2014 8:33:35 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't baked any potatoes lately. I should put large russets on my
>>>> shopping list.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's all I buy. Then I have the right spud on hand for baking,
>>> mashed, what you will. I refuse to keep an inventory of different
>>> potatoes on hand, as something would surely go to waste.
>>
>> I'm the opposite. I used to buy russets exclusively. Never big ones,
>> those things are 1 pound each and I don't need that much.
>
> I can't say I've ever seen a single baking potato that weighed 1 lb. I
> generally buy a small bag of russets that appears to contain a good mix of
> sizes, to include at least two that would be good to use as bakers.

Some stores here sell enormous ones. I'm sure they are at least a pound
each.
>
>> Hubby and I
>> split a baked one that's 3-4 inches long for dinner. These days, I
>> still buy russets, but I buy more sweet potatoes and a bag of those
>> little "gold" potatoes from time to time.
>>
> I buy sweet potatoes at the farm stand. Sometimes they have small white
> (I think what you're calling "gold") potatoes; they sell them loose by
> weight. I like the small red new potatoes if I'm in the mood for boiled &
> buttered spuds.

I think she means like Yukon Gold.