Can anyone identify this potato type?

[Tom B]

I bought a couple of sacks of spuds from a famer in field at Donna Nook in Lincolnshire in December.

The sack is completely unbranded with the farmer complaining that the printed sacks cost more than the spuds.
Anyway, they're fantastic all-rounders - but I have no idea what they are.
I am constantly amazed by the abilities of people one this group to "know stuff".

So can anyone identify my spuds?

Id rather like to buy some more.

They're red skins, slightly rough to the touch, with yellowy flesh. They're oval tubers, mostly large, some very large.

 

[Slick]

Desiree?

 

[Tom B]

Desiree?

Not sure it seems pink enough.
I'm half tempted to drive back and knock on the farm door!

 

[classic33]

Desiree?

Second the above.

 

[Reynard]

Nope, slightly wrong shape and colour for Desiree.

Mozart, more likely.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Jeff. We should call them Jeff.

but they do look like Idaho reds…

 

[Reynard]

but they do look like Idaho reds…

Not likely to be grown in the UK, unfortunately...

 

[lazybloke]

Setanta?

 

[Slick]

Setanta?

Thought that was an old sports channel.

 

[classic33]

Nope, slightly wrong shape and colour for Desiree.

Mozart, more likely.

Are whiter on the inside than the yellow of the Desiree.

 

[Reynard]

Are whiter on the inside than the yellow of the Desiree.

Not. I regularly cook with both as they're lovely for mash

Although personally, I prefer a Maris Piper as they're better for chips, roasties and jackets.

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good morning,

How about Laura?

https://www.europlant.biz/en/list-of-varieties/laura

Bye

Ian

 

[gbb]

Talking to my local potato supplier/grower, many of the more 'exotic varieties are being lost to mass production , all in the name of yield.
We love Victoria, a white with tpyellow flesh, nice and buttery flavour, but he doesn't grow them anymore, better yields from Picasso etc.
Sorry, rambling, can't answer the original question but the premise stands, it's probably a more mainstream red rather than something exotic

 

[gbb]

Out of interest, how much is a sack of potatoes ?
I pay £5 for 10kilos, it should be more but he's struggled with the wet this year and it's given his crop a bit of brown marbling inside, easy cuts out so it doesn't bother me.

It also makes me chuckle when people say...it's just a potato. No it's not, supermarket potatoes are just potatoes, but venture beyond that and there are much nicer textures and tastes to be found

 

[classic33]

There's the Cypriot Red.
Following on from the last two posts. It can be grown over here, but things such as disease resistance and yield has limited widespread planting/growing.