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How long to boil sweet potatoes

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 15:00
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This is measured from the boil. Bringing a pan up from cold adds roughly ten minutes on top and varies with your pan and your hob, which is why the app asks you to say when it gets there rather than guessing.

How are they cut?

What are they for?

How to tell without a timer

Drain well. Sweet potatoes hold a lot of water.

How it goes

  1. Cold water, lid on, full heat. Tell Sensei when it reaches a rolling boil.
  2. Rolling boil, salted.
Every combination, as a table
How are they cut?What are they for?From the boil
Thick rounds Just tender 13:00
Thick rounds Mashing 15:30
Quartered Just tender 15:00
Quartered Mashing 18:00
Large chunks Just tender 22:15
Large chunks Mashing 26:45
Whole Just tender 27:00
Whole Mashing 32:15

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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