Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1998
For a crisp, dense, velvety roast potato, take low-starch potatoes, cover for part of the cooking time, and flip them once.
To arrive at our ideal roasted potatoes recipe—potatoes that were crisp and deep golden brown on the outside, with moist, velvety, dense interior flesh—we wound up choosing a waxy potato such as Red Bliss, which is better able to retain moi...