Rank your carbs

[badjak]

I also find it a difficult question.
I go through phases.
But
1- rice and bread
2 - potatoes & pasta.

I like SE asian food, so Jasmine rice is something I eat often. If I don't feel like rice, I sub with noodles.
But I do like potatoes every now and again.

Then bread...
I like good bread. If I had to base it on the bread commonly available here, then bread would come last.
But home baked comes somewhere near the top

 

[Morning Glory]

Love potatoes, but they need lots of time to cook, so they'll come in 4th.

Do they? It depends how you cook them. For mashed, cut them small and they boil in 15 mins. Or microwave in less.

 

[Morning Glory]

Frequency at the moment:
bread
pasta
corn (tortillas, posole and other corn main carbs)
brown rice, white rice potatoes,

Preference and frequency change depending on season/time of year, dishes being eaten.

I like all carbs pretty equally.

I hadn't thought of corn but of course its a staple carb in Mexico.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Do they? It depends how you cook them. For mashed, cut them small and they boil in 15 mins. Or microwave in less.

here they are steamed in 10 minutes if that. Carrots take longer.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Do they? It depends how you cook them.

I like to cook them whole, with the skins on, so they take time. Yes, you can cut them up small, but that's an additional step of peeling and chopping - unlike rice and pasta, which require no prepping.

 

[Barriehie]

I like to cook them whole with the skins on too.

 

[ZCook]

I hadn't thought of corn but of course its a staple carb in Mexico.

In this particular locality it's also a staple. Goes into all types of preparations.

And also I hadn't thought of beans which we eat very often. Along with other pulses they're a carb too, really.

 

[ZCook]

It depends how you cook them. For mashed, cut them small and they boil in 15 mins. Or microwave in less.

Ditto. Pretty fast that way.

I don't generally automatically think of potatoes for mealtimes as we weren't a meatnpotatoes family growing up. More rice, bread, pasta - but even so, not too heavy on the starchy carbs in general tho. Didn't always have mainstay carbs with a meal. Lots of protein, fruit and veg.

 

[ZCook]

I like to cook them whole, with the skins on, so they take time. Yes, you can cut them up small, but that's an additional step of peeling and chopping - unlike rice and pasta, which require no prepping.

Depends on what you're making?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Yes, you can cut them up small, but that's an additional step of peeling and chopping

Why do they need peeling to be cut up?

I typically cut them up small, but they keep their skins on. Cutting them up helps them steam at the same speed as the other veg I'm steaming.

 

[vernplum]

Round here we eat rice maybe 4 days a week. Potatoes (most often in the shape of frozen fries which I airfry) would probably the next most common carb side followed by bread-y things. We eat pasta about once a week. My wife and I eat noodles a couple of times a week which we buy at the hawker centre downstairs.

 

[Barriehie]

Why do they need peeling to be cut up?
...

I like to keep the skin on too as there's nutrients in there!

 

[karadekoolaid]

Why do they need peeling to be cut up?

Venezuelan spuds aren't lovely, clean, and perfectly round, unfortunately. They're knobbly and full of blemishes.

 

[badjak]

Venezuelan spuds aren't lovely, clean, and perfectly round, unfortunately. They're knobbly and full of blemishes.

Like ours, although we can get washed ones.
But I find it quite easy to clean the unwashed ones under the running tap with a brush

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Venezuelan spuds aren't lovely, clean, and perfectly round, unfortunately. They're knobbly and full of blemishes.

So are mine, but i just scrub them with the potato brush.
And when I've bought tatties, I buy them unwashed. I don't like buying clean ones because it doesn't feel like a potato that way.

Like ours, although we can get washed ones.
But I find it quite easy to clean the unwashed ones under the running tap with a brush

Ditto. But not the running water bit. I just soak them in a couple of inches of water in a bowl.