This was really cool. I hope you get the chance to do this with more commercial farmers ❤. It really helps put things in perspective as a homesteader who works in small commercial/ large garden numbers.
I absolutely enjoyed this video! I’m a home gardener, so basically an amateur farmer winging itand buildings some anecdotal beliefs on what “works”. Coin flip grandma wisdom. So it’s nice to hears what works from a pro. Please invite more farmer to share their knowledge on their specific crop!
I loved this - my great-grandpa used to farm our local university farm and my dad has stories about planting potatoes from that more industrial perspective when he was a kid. So cool to hear more of that and understand the why, even if it's not necessarily applicable to a backyard garden. If we get the "why," we can better decide if it's something we need to apply or not. Great video!
So glad you two were able to spend time together ... to collaborate And have some Fun 🎃 I enjoy hearing Ty's Canadian pronunciation - brings back great memories of my 4 years spent at Queen's University in Ontario, CA 😊
Ive grown potatoes from store bought small potatoes that grew little eye sprouts. It's fun. Use 5 gal food safe white bucket with drainage holes on bottom. Raise bucket on bricks to drain well.
Did you continually add soil as the stems grew upwards, or did you just add the potatoes lower in the bottom of the bucket, fill it up with soil and just let the potatoes grow? In other-words, there’s no ‘hilling’ when planting in the bucket?
@@deboz8793 I did not much after planting. Then, I lived in Florida and I took about 90 days. I just made sure the drainage was working. I had five buckets, started each a week or so apart of other bucket for a spread out harvest. Yield was small bowl size. Remarkably clean and tasty. I got misplaced from Ian. First, find a deli with pickle buckets looking for a home.
This year I did a halfa$$ Ruth Stout method and was amazed to actually get some reasonable sized and quantity potatoes. I have some volunteers I missed when pulling them out and some volunteer onions. Going to do it again
Love the information! Nice to hear from a pro, not that Kevin isn't a semi pro! Just planted my potatoes yesterday, I also use the trench method and don't hill them up. The only thing I add is some wire over the top until they start to grow since I have critters that love to dig them up!
Last October I hoofed the compost from its bin onto a new , plot . I also used some of the compost to add to existing garden beds. and planters , Imagine my surprise And delight, when superb new, potato plants sprang up from this rather sad ‘compost” These new potatoes are delicious😊, all the more so when lifted in the dreary month of November. Nature truly is heavenly!!
I enjoyed the perspective of...what to do when planting in wetter climates vs drier climates. I would think that this type of knowledge would help out a ton of your viewers. I never thought about NOT hilling potatoes...but I see its based on how much water the ground holds and how much rain your area receives each year. This type of info would be invaluable in other crops as well.
this was really cool, I hope you have a chance to do more with other crop-specific commercial farmers. it can be hard to figure out what advice to take seriously, and knowing that some advice makes more sense for big operations and some for backyards is super helpful.
In the UK we tend to grow first early & second early varieties for harvesting from around June for new (or baby) potatoes and then main crop varieties for storage and we let them die back and sit in the ground a week or two to cure and harvest in September or so to eat through the winter. You get a good range of potatoes this way & I typically do a third early varieties and the rest main crop on my allotment. I have noticed that the US channels I watch don’t seem to do this as much if at all.
Shiiiit, I would too! Too many people in america sell out to these corporate assholes and foreign companies and just ruin everything! Never feel like growing food aint enough its very important. @potatoTyy
For me the myth of hilling has had more to do with: will the potato plant (stalks/stems) set more potatoes due to hilling? Based on my "tater" growing experience - not really. That said - I love the baby spuds, so mine are never in the ground long enough.
I eat green potatoes, but generally if the spuds are big enough to peel. I DONT generally eat potatoes that have sprouted. I don't deliberately chit them all over, if they've sprouted that's just a bonus. To hill, or not to hill also depends on whether it's a determinate or indeterminate variety. I only grow (backyard) determinate Kipflers so hilling is less useful
Enjoyed the video! I love the ease of growing potatoes. Regarding cutting the potato prior to planting, I did not hear you address the necessity to allow the cut edge to callous prior to planting. This can be done by leaving them out in the air (in darkness) for a period of time, is that correct? Is this step necessary to prevent rotting? Perhaps not in a drier climate such as San Diego!
I always let cut potatoes dry for a few days to callus over. Seems like no matter the rain forecast I will get rain soon after planting. Too much rain invites rot so I try to avoid that. I have no idea if farmers do this but it works better for me.
I’ve harvested potatoes and I guess I missed a couple and they have come back. Should I just deal with them as if I planted them and then just harvest then when the tops die back, the way I originally did? In San Diego is there a wrong time to plant potatoes… I’m zone 10 and I don’t remember a ground frost where I live. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!
I use green potatoes as my seed potatoes. I don't like the bitterness to eat, but they grow beautifully. And I do nibble raw potatoes as I cook or occasionally as a snack - sometimes as much as a whole small potato - but they have to be FRESH. Older (or green) raw potatoes are bitter & astringent and do NOT make good eating. I advise always nibbling a small bite of raw potato first to asses the specific spud and only eat if you get a nice one (store potatoes are a crapshoot for eating raw). One more note: the astringency does build, so even fresh potatoes, you can't eat very many raw. Stick with a single one. You'll regret going for a second one.
I don't know where we got our potatoes when I was a kid, but it was a treat to eat them raw. We'd peel one, salt it, eat it until the salt was gone, then salt some more, and continue that way. It was filling enough that I never thought to eat more than one. I never heard that you couldn't eat raw potatoes until within the last year or two when a commenter under a YT video said they were poisonous. Absolutely, they are not! I was taught that green ones would make you sick, though, and should be avoided. I never thought about using green potatoes as seed potatoes. I'll have to remember that.
When I was young we were allowed to have one raw potato and we used a bit of salt on it. Was like a treat for us as we grew them and harvested them for the over winter cellar.
A fun trick is to blindfold someone, bring up a canteen of apple juice and serve them a raw potato and ask them to eat it blindfolded and let them guess what they took a bite out of. 9/10 will say an apple. The texture is eerily similar, and the aroma of the apple juice will overpower your taste/smell and all you will taste is apple.
I end up with green potatoes from the grocery store all the time if they are bagged. Especially the yellows. There are always 3 or 4. Maybe it is only illegal to sell them in Canada. I always peel off the green part and then a little further, just to be safe. If you eat too much raw potato you will end up with a stomach ache. I wouldn't even eat a whole one. Some things are meant to be cooked.
EXCELLENT INFORMATION BROTHERS. Me and my brother ate raw potatoes 🥔 for years due to parents divorced and mom gone working. We were too young to cook or use a knife to peel. So we peeled with our teeth and ate. Obviously FATHER GOD Blessed it. We didn't even know about rinsing them off first. 🙏❤️😊
When I was a kid, eating raw potatoes was a treat. We did peel them though (but there was a mom and, for me, also older siblings, to do the peeling). They're especially good with salt. We never had a problem with it. (I am guessing that the idea came from my father's side of the family. His parents were potato farmers in Idaho.)
@tb6303 OH I wish we could get good at growing them. We Love potatoes 🥔 and they are getting so expensive. We're on a fixed income that hasn't been fixed. lol 😂
I’ve given up on growing potatoes. I’ve watch countless videos and read as many articles, and have tried numerous methods and cannot grow potatoes to save my life. If i plant 5 pounds of potatoes I get either five pounds or less back.
In sand soil I plant potatoes before winter. No chance to rot, but I increase the chance of bigger potatoes and harvest. Hilling up before the winter works for non sand soil. I experienced it this year where my best potato plant was on a hill while the rest of the ground was soaked with water. Water compacts the soil so much that no roots can develop fast. What potatoes for sure need, like any plant, is lose soil. Mixing the soil wit lots of bad weed generated lose soil. If you don't have compost, at end of the season drop all your bad weed where yo are planting your potatoes, top that of with some soil. Yes, you will have a lot of weed beginning of the year. Just pull it out until the potato plant takes over. Pulling weed in loose soil is easy. Add it to your compost heap. No need to think about ratios if your compost is in open air. No smell either. I never bought potatoes for planting more than once. I use the smallest one from the year before. Maybe not the greatest yield but it all works fine. Plant a few more for bigger yield, if needed. I have seen potatoes survive harsh conditions. I don't have any particular care. Just plant them.
If the potatoes I crop are green, I cook the ones that only have a bit of green on them, cutting the green bits off, and i use the ones with more green on them as next years seed potatoes.
I have tried to grow potatoes for 2 years the first year they didn't get very big this summer the grasshoppers ate all the green off my potato plants is that the best way to do potatoes and buckets
My grandfather always told us eating a potato with green peelings would not kill you may make you sick Eat a potato that is green inside and out will kill ya I'm sure you would have to eat quite a few.
as kid i loved raw potatoes. i still think its good tasting compared to most raw vegetables. but again its not good for you especially because of the solanine . but same counts for you boiling or frying and eating it with the peel. if its not the tiny baby ones its just as eating green ones...
You need to put some salt on the raw 'taters to make them taste better. As kids I (and my wife said she also) did and still remember the wonderful taste.
It's funny watching you eat them raw. Whenever my father would be cutting them up he would just snack on them raw, at least one or two whole potatoes worth
Eating green or sprouted potatoes while pregnant can cause birth defects in the developing fetus. So while I agree that the average person probably wouldn't eat enough green potatoes to really have a problem, I would be much more conservative during pregnancy or feeding green potatoes to young children simply because they are much smaller than an adult and perhaps more likely to be affected if they eat potatoes regularly.
My understanding is that it is particular dangerous to pregnant women. I am presuming that it affects the foetus but not sure. Interesting bit of old information. My dad used to dust the potatoes for storage with cement dust. We had potatoes for the whole year. This was back in the 80s and he has since passed. On asking people about it, many have said it was due to the lime but it also may be to harden the skins so they don’t bruise. Not sure. Maybe someone out there may have heard of this and may know the answer.
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Is this even a question?! Obviously yes!
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This was really cool. I hope you get the chance to do this with more commercial farmers ❤. It really helps put things in perspective as a homesteader who works in small commercial/ large garden numbers.
I absolutely enjoyed this video! I’m a home gardener, so basically an amateur farmer winging itand buildings some anecdotal beliefs on what “works”. Coin flip grandma wisdom. So it’s nice to hears what works from a pro. Please invite more farmer to share their knowledge on their specific crop!
I ate raw potoatos as a kid and learned to douse them with salt, pepper, and garlic powder (optional). My grandmother was in the kitchen of course.
I loved this - my great-grandpa used to farm our local university farm and my dad has stories about planting potatoes from that more industrial perspective when he was a kid. So cool to hear more of that and understand the why, even if it's not necessarily applicable to a backyard garden. If we get the "why," we can better decide if it's something we need to apply or not. Great video!
So glad you two were able to spend time together ... to collaborate And have some Fun 🎃 I enjoy hearing Ty's Canadian pronunciation - brings back great memories of my 4 years spent at Queen's University in Ontario, CA 😊
Love Potato Ty! Want to see more of him. 🇨🇦. Canadians love the Epic Gardening Channel❤
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Don't eat that!without me !😂😂😂
Ive grown potatoes from store bought small potatoes that grew little eye sprouts. It's fun. Use 5 gal food safe white bucket with drainage holes on bottom. Raise bucket on bricks to drain well.
Easy way to do it!
Did you continually add soil as the stems grew upwards, or did you just add the potatoes lower in the bottom of the bucket, fill it up with soil and just let the potatoes grow? In other-words, there’s no ‘hilling’ when planting in the bucket?
@@deboz8793 I did not much after planting. Then, I lived in Florida and I took about 90 days. I just made sure the drainage was working. I had five buckets, started each a week or so apart of other bucket for a spread out harvest. Yield was small bowl size. Remarkably clean and tasty. I got misplaced from Ian. First, find a deli with pickle buckets looking for a home.
@@deboz8793 I planted the sprouting potato about an inch or so under soil. 4-5 potatoes in each bucket. 😊Easy and fun.
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Thank You!
I still can’t say Chit with a straight face 😐
It's the accent lol 🇨🇦. Congrats on another successful ugly potato day :)
This is perfect in terms of tone. It's not forced feeling sketch comedy nor is it totally dry. It's light banter and i think it's appropriate
This year I did a halfa$$ Ruth Stout method and was amazed to actually get some reasonable sized and quantity potatoes. I have some volunteers I missed when pulling them out and some volunteer onions. Going to do it again
Ty can't leave his family business reminds me of that Flying Dutchman thing "part of the crew, part of the ship".
Love the information! Nice to hear from a pro, not that Kevin isn't a semi pro! Just planted my potatoes yesterday, I also use the trench method and don't hill them up. The only thing I add is some wire over the top until they start to grow since I have critters that love to dig them up!
Last October I hoofed the compost from its bin onto a new , plot .
I also used some of the compost to add to existing garden beds. and planters ,
Imagine my surprise And delight, when superb new, potato plants sprang up from this rather sad ‘compost”
These new potatoes are delicious😊, all the more so when lifted in the dreary month of November.
Nature truly is heavenly!!
Love this industrial perspective! Keep doing with different plants and vegetables 🌽 🍅
ah-HA I JUST ate a bunch of green potatoes and I simply peeled off the green and went with it. Still alive, and happy to know it's a myth!
I enjoyed the perspective of...what to do when planting in wetter climates vs drier climates. I would think that this type of knowledge would help out a ton of your viewers. I never thought about NOT hilling potatoes...but I see its based on how much water the ground holds and how much rain your area receives each year. This type of info would be invaluable in other crops as well.
this was really cool, I hope you have a chance to do more with other crop-specific commercial farmers. it can be hard to figure out what advice to take seriously, and knowing that some advice makes more sense for big operations and some for backyards is super helpful.
In the UK we tend to grow first early & second early varieties for harvesting from around June for new (or baby) potatoes and then main crop varieties for storage and we let them die back and sit in the ground a week or two to cure and harvest in September or so to eat through the winter. You get a good range of potatoes this way & I typically do a third early varieties and the rest main crop on my allotment. I have noticed that the US channels I watch don’t seem to do this as much if at all.
I truly enjoyed this video and how simple, yet informative it was!
NEVER LEAVE OR SELL THE FARM!!!
Imma die on it
Shiiiit, I would too! Too many people in america sell out to these corporate assholes and foreign companies and just ruin everything! Never feel like growing food aint enough its very important. @potatoTyy
My grandpa was a potato farmer in Central Oregon. We love a fresh raw potato 😊
For me the myth of hilling has had more to do with: will the potato plant (stalks/stems) set more potatoes due to hilling? Based on my "tater" growing experience - not really. That said - I love the baby spuds, so mine are never in the ground long enough.
Depends on type!
Customer: Can i get 4 potatoes from you, please?
Seller: Absolutely, do you mind if there's a little chit on it? 😂
Put a little salt on your raw potato
I will snack on raw potatoe as I'm preparing them for cooking.
This is a really good video! I learned a lot, thanks!!
Westcoast Boys!!! Weird seeing these two streams cross, love it!
I eat green potatoes, but generally if the spuds are big enough to peel. I DONT generally eat potatoes that have sprouted. I don't deliberately chit them all over, if they've sprouted that's just a bonus. To hill, or not to hill also depends on whether it's a determinate or indeterminate variety. I only grow (backyard) determinate Kipflers so hilling is less useful
Enjoyed the video! I love the ease of growing potatoes. Regarding cutting the potato prior to planting, I did not hear you address the necessity to allow the cut edge to callous prior to planting. This can be done by leaving them out in the air (in darkness) for a period of time, is that correct? Is this step necessary to prevent rotting? Perhaps not in a drier climate such as San Diego!
I always let cut potatoes dry for a few days to callus over. Seems like no matter the rain forecast I will get rain soon after planting. Too much rain invites rot so I try to avoid that. I have no idea if farmers do this but it works better for me.
I’ve harvested potatoes and I guess I missed a couple and they have come back. Should I just deal with them as if I planted them and then just harvest then when the tops die back, the way I originally did? In San Diego is there a wrong time to plant potatoes… I’m zone 10 and I don’t remember a ground frost where I live. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!
Depends on the person as to how you react to green potato. I wouldn’t advise people it’s ok to eat them.
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I use green potatoes as my seed potatoes. I don't like the bitterness to eat, but they grow beautifully. And I do nibble raw potatoes as I cook or occasionally as a snack - sometimes as much as a whole small potato - but they have to be FRESH. Older (or green) raw potatoes are bitter & astringent and do NOT make good eating. I advise always nibbling a small bite of raw potato first to asses the specific spud and only eat if you get a nice one (store potatoes are a crapshoot for eating raw). One more note: the astringency does build, so even fresh potatoes, you can't eat very many raw. Stick with a single one. You'll regret going for a second one.
Smart move!
I don't know where we got our potatoes when I was a kid, but it was a treat to eat them raw. We'd peel one, salt it, eat it until the salt was gone, then salt some more, and continue that way. It was filling enough that I never thought to eat more than one.
I never heard that you couldn't eat raw potatoes until within the last year or two when a commenter under a YT video said they were poisonous. Absolutely, they are not!
I was taught that green ones would make you sick, though, and should be avoided. I never thought about using green potatoes as seed potatoes. I'll have to remember that.
I wondered about replanting the green ones. Thanks for the info.
thank you for all the information.
Great video and great information! Thanks so much 🎉 Any thoughts/tips on potato scab? Cheers 😊
When I was young we were allowed to have one raw potato and we used a bit of salt on it. Was like a treat for us as we grew them and harvested them for the over winter cellar.
Thank you, this was awesome!
What about storing potatoes? If you don't prep them, do they get yuckie quicker?
A fun trick is to blindfold someone, bring up a canteen of apple juice and serve them a raw potato and ask them to eat it blindfolded and let them guess what they took a bite out of. 9/10 will say an apple. The texture is eerily similar, and the aroma of the apple juice will overpower your taste/smell and all you will taste is apple.
😂
I end up with green potatoes from the grocery store all the time if they are bagged. Especially the yellows. There are always 3 or 4. Maybe it is only illegal to sell them in Canada. I always peel off the green part and then a little further, just to be safe. If you eat too much raw potato you will end up with a stomach ache. I wouldn't even eat a whole one. Some things are meant to be cooked.
EXCELLENT INFORMATION BROTHERS. Me and my brother ate raw potatoes 🥔 for years due to parents divorced and mom gone working. We were too young to cook or use a knife to peel. So we peeled with our teeth and ate. Obviously FATHER GOD Blessed it. We didn't even know about rinsing them off first. 🙏❤️😊
Wow - tough times!
When I was a kid, eating raw potatoes was a treat. We did peel them though (but there was a mom and, for me, also older siblings, to do the peeling). They're especially good with salt. We never had a problem with it. (I am guessing that the idea came from my father's side of the family. His parents were potato farmers in Idaho.)
@tb6303 OH I wish we could get good at growing them. We Love potatoes 🥔 and they are getting so expensive. We're on a fixed income that hasn't been fixed. lol 😂
@@epicgardening YES sir.
What a handsome couple of fellas! And great potato information as a bonus 😅😂
6:13 I howled
10:01
Ty trying not to grimace as he holds that last bit of potato in his mouth 😂
I’ve given up on growing potatoes. I’ve watch countless videos and read as many articles, and have tried numerous methods and cannot grow potatoes to save my life. If i plant 5 pounds of potatoes I get either five pounds or less back.
In sand soil I plant potatoes before winter. No chance to rot, but I increase the chance of bigger potatoes and harvest. Hilling up before the winter works for non sand soil. I experienced it this year where my best potato plant was on a hill while the rest of the ground was soaked with water. Water compacts the soil so much that no roots can develop fast. What potatoes for sure need, like any plant, is lose soil. Mixing the soil wit lots of bad weed generated lose soil. If you don't have compost, at end of the season drop all your bad weed where yo are planting your potatoes, top that of with some soil. Yes, you will have a lot of weed beginning of the year. Just pull it out until the potato plant takes over. Pulling weed in loose soil is easy. Add it to your compost heap. No need to think about ratios if your compost is in open air. No smell either. I never bought potatoes for planting more than once. I use the smallest one from the year before. Maybe not the greatest yield but it all works fine. Plant a few more for bigger yield, if needed. I have seen potatoes survive harsh conditions. I don't have any particular care. Just plant them.
I don’t know why but I’ve always enjoyed grabbing a fresh slice of raw potato and enjoying the crunch of it
@@jamesbrandon8520 Me too.
Great info
Can you use green potatoes as seed potatoes?
If the potatoes I crop are green, I cook the ones that only have a bit of green on them, cutting the green bits off, and i use the ones with more green on them as next years seed potatoes.
Oh yeah, definitely!
The tips at 6:20 are so helpful - I’m definitely trying them out. Thanks a lot! My channel is also about farm life - hope we can grow together!
Any potatoes I have that have green are for next years seed potatoes 🥔😊
Me too!
You can eat raw potatoes. Because in that state they are a lot less digestible compared to cooked potatoes. Great video guys.
WHAT an intro 🎉
I have tried to grow potatoes for 2 years the first year they didn't get very big this summer the grasshoppers ate all the green off my potato plants is that the best way to do potatoes and buckets
Can you list some of the background music in the video? Really appreciate your videos!
We use a stock music site called Epidemic Sounds
Tip: Chit your potato. 🥔
Can potato greens be composted or should they be discarded?
Composted
Can u use potatoes from the store that has eyes on them?
In Oklahoma, you can bury your potatoes in raised beds without hilling and get no green potatoes.
My grandfather always told us eating a potato with green peelings would not kill you may make you sick Eat a potato that is green inside and out will kill ya I'm sure you would have to eat quite a few.
The occasional green potato chip is a coveted delicacy
Agree
I’ve never thrown out a green potato chip
Very useful insights, plus raw doggin a potato bonus.
as kid i loved raw potatoes. i still think its good tasting compared to most raw vegetables. but again its not good for you especially because of the solanine . but same counts for you boiling or frying and eating it with the peel. if its not the tiny baby ones its just as eating green ones...
Try adding salt to the raw potato. It will make it more palatable.
As l understand it, potatoes are either determinate or indeterminate. Is there any point holing up on the determinate varieties?
Epic duo!
Ty is a cutie
Thank You Gents!🌵
When do we get a tour of the chit room?
YAYYY ANOTHER POTATO VIDEOOOOOOO❤❤
You should grow some fingerling potatoes
The most expensive potato!!
Do I have to thin to one sprout? I want huge potatoes btw
Raw potatoes are earth apples. Sliced, a little salt. 😊
You need to put some salt on the raw 'taters to make them taste better. As kids I (and my wife said she also) did and still remember the wonderful taste.
It's funny watching you eat them raw. Whenever my father would be cutting them up he would just snack on them raw, at least one or two whole potatoes worth
sooooooo 60%rx give or take??
Best potatoes I ever grew were from thick skin with an eye on it and used the rest of the potatoes for food.
Eating green or sprouted potatoes while pregnant can cause birth defects in the developing fetus. So while I agree that the average person probably wouldn't eat enough green potatoes to really have a problem, I would be much more conservative during pregnancy or feeding green potatoes to young children simply because they are much smaller than an adult and perhaps more likely to be affected if they eat potatoes regularly.
"It feels good in your mouth, but it doesn't taste great" 😝
I had a drink every time I heard “100%”……..I think I was able to finish the video, but I’m not quite sure.
Raw potatoes are yummy with a little salt!
Oh hell yeah
It's tater time
These potato farmers talk so much chit!
Nothing like watching a cute potato take a nice chit
My understanding is that it is particular dangerous to pregnant women. I am presuming that it affects the foetus but not sure. Interesting bit of old information. My dad used to dust the potatoes for storage with cement dust. We had potatoes for the whole year. This was back in the 80s and he has since passed. On asking people about it, many have said it was due to the lime but it also may be to harden the skins so they don’t bruise. Not sure. Maybe someone out there may have heard of this and may know the answer.
I get my potatoes from Chits Creek.
I eat green potato all the time.
replant green potatoes in the ground and get more potatoes...
OG's here will remember when Kevin used to pop out randomly in the video. I kinda miss that Lol.
another banger
I 💚 raw potatoes!!
I have eaten raw potatoes for as long as I can remember.
We eat sprouted potatoes all the time....im not wasting potatoes for a sprout😂 and if the potato is green it gets eaten 🤷🏾♀️
I enjoy raw potatoes. I've eaten then since I was a kid.
Raw potatoes are delicious with salt!
Wait, he chits his potatoes in a dark room? I thought you were supposed to do it somewhere sunny