I made a huge Russet baker potato for lunch. I'd call it fully loaded, but I didn't add cheese. I don't like cheese on potatoes, not even chili cheese fries. I find to get the huge Russets, I have to go to the bin and pick them out. It seems the last several years when you buy a 10lb bag of Russets, they just aren't huge like they used to be. Anyone else notice that?
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Krogers here has been selling 10# bags of the russet bakers. They're HUGE. I thought they were GMO, they're so big.
And there's the standard Idaho...they're puny
A baker should be at least 2 pounds and Russet. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure potatoes from Oregon, Washington and Idaho
aren't GMO. No reason to be. Those three states have the soil, climate and weather way easy to grow.
Deano that potato looks and smells great from here!
By the way here is some more info about potatoes.....
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"In the past, Bakersfield excelled in filling this window in the table-stock market because of disease, lack of varieties and the fact growers didn't have sprout-nip to extend their storage season in the fall production states. During the 1940s, Bakersfield had 60,000 acres in potatoes that were packed in over 50 sheds."
With the advent of new potato varieties, disease management tools and CIPC, the demand for California table-stock potatoes decreased over the following decades. Total Bakersfield potato acreage for this year, 2013, was about 12,000 acres. An April 29 article in The Packer reported 2013 russet plantings in Kern County are down 65-75 percent, and the trend is toward smaller and specialty potatoes in the state.
With the sale of King Pak Potato, Kirschenmann Farms focuses almost exclusively on its chip-stock potato production. Most of the production is processed at Frito-Lay's Kern County plant. The farm also supplies chipping potatoes to all the West Coast chip-processing facilities. This is because chipping potatoes cannot go year round in the fall production states because of their thin skins and warm storage conditions. Kirschenmann Farms also supplies In-N-Out Burger for their fresh, hand-cut fries. In-N-Out Burger is a regional fast-food restaurant chain in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and Utah.
Kirschenmann Farms has been a Frito-Lay supplier since 1974. In 2009, Brian was selected as the California farmer highlighted by Frito-Lay's "Lay's Local" marketing campaign. This campaign also featured farmers growing potatoes used in Lay's Potato Chips from Florida, Maine, Michigan and Texas.
Kirschenmann and his fellow Lay's growers played a central role as the faces for the iconic potato chips brand in a series of 30-second national and regional television spots. The national campaign launched May 18, 2009, by these growers who joined the Lay's brand team to kick off the initiative by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The campaign was also the focus of a comprehensive marketing effort celebrating the local connections of the Lay's brand through national print advertising, on-package messaging and 40,000 customized in-store displays.
The web site is here: [
link to www.potatogrower.com]
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