Posted on 06/02/2025 6:00:50 AM PDT by 4Runner
Reds. Russets. Yukon Golds.
Up until about a year or so ago, you could throw together a pretty decent breakfast after frying up a potato, some onions, and parsley for home fries.
And you didn't have to do anything more to the potato than wash it and slice or chop it up.
Not anymore.
The spuds for sale at WalMart or Publix for five and six bucks a bag look like the real thing, but wait until you try to cook them.
The problem is, they won't. Or don't.
You can fry them all you want. Yet they'll stay raw and chewy and tasteless. And stick like glue to the bottom of the pan.
If you try to wait them out on a low heat, they'll burn.
If you par-boil them, they'll end up a glutinous sticky mess.
My cooking skills haven't changed. I still cook potatoes the same way I've always done.
In a seasoned cast-iron skillet. Except now, the results are darned near inedible and aggravating.
Is it plastics contaminating our crops? Is it the water? The soil? Or, is it the Chinese?
Today’s potatoes are genetically engineered to resist diseases and insects. In the gene altering process, their is always a loss of a desirable trait. In common fruit species, they are genetically engineered for disease and insect resistance, appearance and shelf life thus nutrient content and taste are usually sacrificed. We never had allergies to wheat gluten until most varieties grown and marketed today are genetically engineered for higher yield, drought tolerant and disease resistance. Bottom line, we shouldn’t be messing with Mother Nature.
Beef tallow and ghee are my other two “go to”’s...
HEY!
What about bacon grease?
I have small containers of beef tallow, but haven’t found any ghee online, yet.
I have a large container, now half empty, of bacon grease, but prefer the duck fat, due to heart disease.
I keep and filter my own bacon drippings... :-)
I found some at Aldi once. Walmart has it too...
Ghee is just quality Clarified Butter, and it can be had online for much less than branded Ghee.
To be Frank, it was dicey for a while, but then I spent most of the day outside so I wouldn’t become a couch potato.
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