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RE: Energy Saving - Moth - 02-11-2025
(01-11-2025, 06:00 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: Not really energy saving but: I used to compost potatoes too small to peel but since cooking them quite often as oven chips which I chop up wedge like and cook with a little oil without peeling (except for any skin blemishes like scab), I now discard very few potatoes at all due to size.
My grandparents called the tiny spuds pig potatoes and fed them to the pig. Everyone had a pig in those days. And hens. That's why the great British breakfast is bacon and eggs. Bring back backyard pig-keeping, I say!
RE: Energy Saving - Vinny - 03-11-2025
(02-11-2025, 02:20 PM)Moth Wrote:I used tor riddle potatoes at the farm and small ones were always known as pig potatoes!(01-11-2025, 06:00 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: Not really energy saving but: I used to compost potatoes too small to peel but since cooking them quite often as oven chips which I chop up wedge like and cook with a little oil without peeling (except for any skin blemishes like scab), I now discard very few potatoes at all due to size.
My grandparents called the tiny spuds pig potatoes and fed them to the pig. Everyone had a pig in those days. And hens. That's why the great British breakfast is bacon and eggs. Bring back backyard pig-keeping, I say!
