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tomboy
02-19-2004, 09:38 AM
If you love sweet potatoes as much as my family, you might run into this a lot. I find that sometimes when I make sweet potatoes, they have these "hairs" that run thru them. It detracts greatly from any dish I'm making and it is only in some of the potatoes.

Is there a way to pick out sweet potatoes that do not have these "hairs"? If there isn't, in your opinion, do you think it is realistic to press the roasted potatoes thru mesh or something to remove the grains? There has to be a trick that I'm missing.

Thanks!
sneezles
02-19-2004, 12:01 PM
I think the fibers are only visible in the huge ones. I now tend to buy the smaller ones and haven't run into that problem.
shumanata
02-19-2004, 12:16 PM
When my step-mother makes sweet potatoes she slices them REALLY thin before cooking them, across the potato (not length-wise), and she never has the hairy thing...
louiseee
02-19-2004, 12:18 PM
I think a potato ricer might work but can't say that I've tried it for this purpose.
Lrimerman
02-19-2004, 01:50 PM
Can't really help you, but I have noticed the problem as well.

Welcome to the boards.

Lisa
Little Bit
02-19-2004, 02:06 PM
When I pick them out at the store, I try to avoid the long thin ones. They seem to be the worst culprits. The shorter, rounder ones are much better.

Like shumanata's step mom, I also slice them REALLY thin when I need to cut them.
tomboy
02-20-2004, 10:35 PM
Wow, thanks for the responses! Got it! Short one cut thin. I was thinking a potato ricer too, but they are so expensive for that one use, KWIM?

Thanks, again,
tomboy
Jazzmatazz49
02-21-2004, 07:28 AM
Don't forget that you can use your ricer to squeeze spinach as welll!
brownie12
02-21-2004, 08:12 AM
I got my potato ricer for under $15 at Williams Sonoma

http://ww2.williams-sonoma.com/cat/pip.cfm?src=srki1%7Cwpotato%5Csricer%2Fhme%2Fhme&skus=1094374&sid=WSE2ADV5B8Z7HROBM7MPQ7WSQUQJWPCW200402210712&pkey=sa0s10potato%2Cricer&cmsrc=sch

and now that I have it, I find I make potato dishes a lot more often. Another way to get around the strings in sweet potatoes is to mash them with the electric mixer. They don't get gluey nearly as quickly as regular potatoes when you do this.

Jazzamatazz: I hadn't thought about using it on my spinach. Thanks!