abdullahcohn, how did you cook the chips?... I make chips/fries with sweet potato in the oven and they taste realy good.
I often make normal potato chips/fries  at the same time and you realy can taste the difference in them.

If I am doing a mix of sweet potatoe and normal potatoe chips/fries I start cooking the normal potato a little time before cooking the swet potato ones.

Either way the process is the same.. (I leave the veg skins on)...I just chop the potatoes into chunky chip sizes , I put them in a bowl with a little salt pepper and oilve oil and I toss them about so that all the chips have a slight coating of oil.
I them bake them in the oven., till they are cooked.

some people par boil these sort of oven chips  before they coat them in oil,but, I do not as I find that when I tried a version that I had parboiled before tossing in oil..the chips absorbed more oil than I wanted them to....so.. I never par-boil the chips.
These are always popular with the family. I male potato wedges the same way.

They were OK, I still think they taste similar though.

Ha, fair enough Anna!

Surely they will taste similer as they are both potatoes?!

Last edited by kayleigh (Sun 04 Mar 07 9:25am)

I tend to buy the bright orange sweet potato as well, but sometimes I have bought the variety with the creamier coloured flesh but they are not so sweet.

I have not thought of putting sweet potatos on the BBQ, I will give that a go in a month or two when the weather here improves.
Yesterday was a mix of spring like sunshine, rain and heavy hail !

We bake a lot of sweet potato, and also if we are having a 'Sunday Roast' then we add some sweet potato into the roasting pan with the normal potatos.

I agree  with you Stefanie, I think that sweet potato tastes quite different.