So my kids’ school has this garden that they basically piddle around with and use for occasional educational purposes. It’s open for people in the community to come harvest stuff as they like, although few actually do. We (my family) are involved in the garden maintenance, and we were doing some post-school year stuff the other day, and noticed that someone had harvested a bunch of potatoes, but had done so in a half-assed way (just pulled up the plants and taken what came up with it). So we got out our hand tools and went to town in those beds, and found something like 8 lbs of potatoes that they had neglected to dig.
Anyway, long story short, I washed, peeled and boiled a few for potato salad, and while most of them cooked up delightfully, it seems that one or two remained hard as rocks and crunchy after about 8 minutes of boiling.
What causes this? Is there a way to identify the potatoes that will do this beforehand? I haven’t ever had store-bought potatoes do this before.
I’d cut them into mostly evenly sized pieces- about 3/4" square, more or less.
What was weird is that only a very few were crunchy, and size didn’t seem to have anything to do with it. I found crunchy tiny pieces, and large fully cooked pieces. They were all immersed fully in the boiling water as well.
Well he said he cut them up, but before that I was wondering if he could tell the difference between potatoes and rocks. They are very similar looking when you first dig them up.
