to cook with horse carrots

[hatwoman]

I mean, they are, just, carrots aren't they? maybe not as pretty and shapely and maybe in need of an extra scrub, but surely a carrot is a carrot? Surely horse carrots are just the ones the supermarkets reject for inexplicable reasons and that the farmers throw in a sack and brand as horse carrots in order to sell them for at least something, rather than chuck them away.

YANBU, unless 'horse carrots' is a euphemism

No reason - they tend to be a bit big and woody, but they'd be fine in soup. Huge bag for £3.95 here

Definitely horse carrots (from agricultural supply shops) and horse apples (from farm shop based in orchards) round here. If I had the energy to process and freeze them, or the opportunity (as hatwoman has) to use them in one go, I would absolutely go for it.

(that said, if I had the time and energy for processing, 3/4 of our own apple and plum crop wouldn't have gone to waste )

standard practice in this house - horses and house share a bag

CNOt - that's expensive - i wouldn't pay more than £2, guess that is regional variation for you

how north is north (midlands), hatwoman? I am sure I knew at some stage but have forgotten...

Of course its OK , probably less pesticides on them!

Why stop at carrots? All kinds of nutritious bargains to be had in the pet food aisle

They are no different from any other carrot.Incidentally,when I was at Horticultural/Agricultural college,a tutor told us to ALWAYS peel carrots,as they had more pesticides sprayed on them than any other produce.

The only possible negative to eating horse carrots I can think is one of how they're grown.

I know, for a fact, that human excrement is used to fertislise carrots but I don't know whether normal carrots in supermarkets are grown using this type of fertilizer. If yes, then you'll be fine .

I'm sure that if it mattered, they'd have to have a label on saying not for human consumption.

Loshad - that is in Countrywide though. I don't buy them as us and dpony would struggle to get through a bag before they were rotten. And the only thing he gets in a bucket is enough chaff to get his vitamins in anyway

When I still had my horse I always used to nick a handful of his carrots from the bag to take home for stews... still alive!

Am jealous of the horse apples, though. We didn't get them at the feed store, had to go and buy value ones from Tesco - and then a teacher joined the yard and every Friday she brought in all the 'free' fruit that the kids hadn't eaten in the week - no-one at her school ever wanted apples, apparently, so we all got freebies!

mirage that's true - except for organic carrots.
You should always peel non-organic carrots as they fix nitorgen from the soil.

whoops- nitrogen

Yes, yes,yes definitely cook with horse carrots, they have more earthy intense flavour, not quite as sweet as the fingerlings but they are perfect for soups, rooty mash and the more intense flavour stands up to long slow cooked casseroles and stews especially beef a lot better than spring carrots ever would. Personally I always use horse carrots, btw my late departed German shepherd dog also loved a horse carrot 'bone' it was a big treat for her. They are just the oversized and sometimes misshapen carrots that Europe have dictated we do not want, they are perfectly fine for humans to eat, I'm 67 and have always eaten horse carrots ENJOY!!

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