Yams Arent Sweet Potatoes!

[TheRoyalOne]

Since we're on the subject of yams and sweet potatoes.......Anyone ever have a sweetpotatoe cheesecake? It's the BEST. Ironically enough, it's made with yams. Sweetpotaoe cobbler is also pretty good. And it's made with sweetpotatoes. Having cooked with both yams and sweetpotatoes, I can assure you they are definately different. Yams are much sweeter. Grocery stores here in Ca usually carry both.

 

[Akateros]

Actually, the confusion is furthered by the fact that many stores label certain varieties of sweet potato as "yams."

This may help you, confused tuber eaters:
Yams and Sweet Potatoes from the Cooks' Thesaurus. With pictures.

 

[Snivrad]

I just bought some sweet potatoes this morning. I noticed that alot of people have them in their diet. So I figured I'd try them.
But now I have to figure out how to make them. Any suggestions?

 

[Nuclear Blast]

I'm from Louisiana, and I know the diffrence between the two. Yams are mainly used to make candied yams. You may see them around thanksgiving time. They are baked with cloves and generally cinnamon or allspice. A sugar glaze is used to give it that candied look. Now, you can also do the same thing with sweet potatoes if you're in a jam, but you will not notice a big diffrence in taste or look. There is a very suttle diffrence.

 

[Nuclear Blast]

Take a fork and poke holes all around the sweet potato and stick in microwave for about 10-15 minutes. Take out and feel (should be relatively soft and pliable to the touch. If still hard put back in for another 4-5 min. This is how I cook all my sweet po-tats! It's the quickest way I know. Just be sure not to over-microwave it or it will get shriveled and shrink. After microwaving a few, you'll get the hang!

 

[JLB001]

These are the ones we get: yacon Substitutes: sweet potato OR yam

yam = moist-fleshed sweet potato Notes: Americans use the word "yam" to refer to a sweet, moist, orange-fleshed variety of sweet potato. To everyone else in the world, a yam is what Americans call a tropical yam, a firm tuber with white flesh. Varieties of American "yams" (sweet potatoes) include the garnet yam (pictured at left) and the jewel yam. Substitutes: sweet potatoes (drier, less sweet, and often more expens

 

[aggies1ut]

MMm Japanese yams baked in the oven are the best.

 

[aztecwolf]

i bake a couple sweet potatos at a time, around 45-60 minutes at about 390 degrees, and wrap em in tinfoil and put em in the fridge, then whenever i want one i pop in the micro for a minute and a half, cut it open, sprinkle on the cajun seasoning and eat it, holding it in my hand like you would a taco(sorry i'm a barbaric type eater), but damn is that good

 

[JLB001]

I usually put them in the micro. cut them in half if they are big. cover with a plastic bag with a few slits, nuke for 20 mins, check, if hard still, nuke some more. When they are finally done, I let them cool some, then cut in half, get a large bowl, squeeze out the insides into the bowl, add splenda, vanilla, cinnamon and some butter buds. Mix all together. Yam/Sweet potato souffle stuff.

 

[aztecwolf]

i tried nukin mine but it came out real chalky,the setting i used was the baked potato setting on my micro, so i just decided that i would bake them in the oven and wrap em up for future use. i do similar things with my oatmeal, i cook it the normal way(stove top) then i put it in a container, the next day i just warm it up in the micro and i am set to go, for some reason the texture doesnt taste to good to me when i nuke it to make it, plus when you put it in the fridge over night the spices that i use, such as the cinnamon and nutmeg really come out and it makes a very flavourfull oatmeal

 

[Nuclear Blast]

Yeah, I hear ya...I just go for the quickest way possible. Actually my wife showed me the microwave way. I must say though, mine come out real good. Maybe its my micro...who knows!

 

[Jodi]

I can't eat them from the micro They just don't taste right. I prefer the oven but when I'm in a time crunch I chop it up and boil it. Then I just mash it and add cinnamon and vanilla extract

 

[Nuclear Blast]

Yeah, I hear ya. I just got used to the micro I guess. Hey, I've guzzled many a not so tasty protein shakein the past. If I can do that, then I guess I can eat a microwaved sweet potato.

 

[Paynne]

Bah, it looks like I've been eating yams not sweet potatoes. Thank God I read all this about pies and candied sweets on refeed day

 

[Michael D]

We eat sweet potatos all the time. I like mine with brown sugar and melted marshmallows.

So are the yams here usually just sweet potatos?

 

[DFINEST]

They both taste darn good to me

 

[Premo55]

You know I've always wondered...if one cup of oats is 50g carbs, how large of a sweet potato should I be eating to equal that? I've never been able to find this info online.

Peace.

 

[JLB001]

http://www.global-fitness.com/foods/?partner=ghf

Type in Yams or sweet potato

4 oz is about 1/2c. cooked

 

[jstar]

I am soooo confused!!!

The supermarkets around here dump them all into the same bin and post a sign: "sweet potatos/yams"

They are all orange in the middle but some are long tubers and some are rounder....so is it wise to assume the long ones are yams and the rounder ones are sweet potatos?

 

[JLB001]

I dunno...I'm still A can Craig bought says both.

 

[Jill]

I always buy sweet potatoes-the cashiers always mistake them for yams-that ok cause yams are usually more expensive! Ive never eaten either of them as "sweet"-Ive only ever baked them like french fies and used "salt" type spices. I should try the sweet thing....

 

[JLB001]

How do you bake them like fries? I've never tried that. Would be nice for something new.