Amateur Cook wrote:
> On Oct 20, 12:31 pm, "Default User" > wrote:
>> Amateur Cook wrote:
>>> Apparently. Last time I cooked yams, when I dropped them in water to
>>> boil they sunk to the bottom.
>>> I cooked sweet potatoes for the first time last night and they floated
>>> on top.
>>> Anyone know what would make the yams more dense?
>> Chances are, what you are calling "yams" ARE sweet potatoes.
>>
>> Brian
>>
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>
> No, the packaging says sweet potatoes. And I do buy yams.

Are you sure? My mother made "candied yams" but they were sweet potatoes.

http://homecooking.about.com/od/howt...potatodiff.htm

Not to be a pest - but A LOT of people think yams are the same as sweet
potatoes but they are not. *Real* yams are totally different vegetable.

-Tracy