From mashed potatoes, scalloped cheesy potatoes and the fast-food fried variety, potatoes are everywhere. When cooked, Yukon Gold potatoes take on a creamy and tender consistency with a rich, buttery, and earthy flavor. Yukon Gold potatoes are best suited for cooked applications such as roasting, grilling, frying, mashing, sautéing, and boiling. Yukon Gold potatoes contain nearly twice as much vitamin C as a regular baking potato and provide some potassium as well.