What do potatoes taste like?

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Other than saying they taste like potatoes. How would you describe a potato to someone who never ate one?

 

[rel=alternate]

If you overcook it, it kind of feels like overcooked beans. If you made a paste and put it into an oven.

Then again, I am not even sure, I never really tried it.

Potatoes taste different depending on how they cook. Let's start with the fact that it's a starch.

It's not so tasty in itself. It's more of a vehicle for other flavors.

 

[Syzyg]

They taste the most savory, with the hint of sweetness most subtle. It envelops the palate with its unique texture, and enriches itself with the spices it's adorned with.

 

[eatler]

Straight or French fries taste like starch, if you cook them in onions and butter like I do then sweet.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Other than saying they taste like potatoes. How would you describe a potato to someone who never ate one?

interpretive dance

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

the skin has an earthy, wheaty, almost metallic quality to it but in a vegetal way, like the taste of greens, the inside when cooked is soft and depending on the potato can taste kind of like a nutty rice with just a hint of tang and sweetness to it alongside a flavor similar to the skin, when it's not cooked its more bittersweet and almost tastes like a weed

 

[parsnip]

I would say earthy and bland.