Dehydrated potato rounds

[Acdoctor]

The wife and I are dehydrating some potato rounds for our stores today as it’s raining and can’t do anything outside. I picked up 10 5#bags at sams and she wanted to dehydrate then for au gratin casserole dishes in the future, love them in the winter with a roast and some roasted veggies. I’m poking to store them in 1/2 gallon mason jars.

 

[Dracos]

Sounds like a good idea to me. Last year I grew a whole lot of potatoes. They are a great survival food. It turns out however that all my hard work generated about $20.00 worth of spuds. I think I'll buying them at the store, and doing what Acdoctor does until shtf.

 

[Jayson]

When the SHTF I’m making French Fries!

 

[Acdoctor]

Sounds like a good idea to me. Last year I grew a whole lot of potatoes. They are a great survival food. It turns out however that all my hard work generated about $20.00 worth of spuds. I think I'll buying them at the store, and doing what Acdoctor does until shtf.

thats why I bought them at a big box store, very cheap per lbs , no limit, multi variety to choose from and can be made into potato flakes for mashed potatoes, hash browns or diced for easy storeage.

 

[Acdoctor]

When the SHTF I’m making French Fries!

In SHTF I will just chew on a rock and save my fry oil. Lol

 

[Jayson]

In SHTF I will just chew on a rock and save my fry oil. Lol

When the SHTF and McDonalds closes, I’ll go raid their storage bins of 55 gallons drums of pure lard.

 

[Dani]

Just make sure you blanche them first or they will turn brown.

 

[Acdoctor]

Just make sure you blanche them first or they will turn brown.

We did and added a little salt and lemon juice during the blanching process.

 

[Dani]

Just thought I would throw out a reminder to members who would like to try it out without ever having done it before. It's a great way to [reserve your potatoes.

 

[Acdoctor]

Very good directions on Excalibur web site on proscessing potato rounds , dices and hash browns. I’m on my 4th dehydrator full this time, if put in jars with oxygen absorbers they will keep at least a year or more with good results.

 

[Jayson]

In SHTF I will just chew on a rock and save my fry oil. Lol

I guess there’s lots of minerals in rocks.

 

[GaRp58]

We are doing the same, I can get taters for only $0.30 per kilo. We buy a 30 kg bag and plant the first ones which start to sprout into barrels or buckets, the rest get blanched, salted and put in 2 liter canning jars for about 2 days warm then in the cool pantry where they last about a year. IF we don't eat them first...

 

[Dusty roads]

We did and added a little salt and lemon juice during the blanching process.

That and I found sun dried potatoes look nicer then the dehydrated potatoes.

 

[lonewolf]

In SHTF I will just chew on a rock and save my fry oil. Lol

each to their own but chewing rocks wont do your teeth much good.

 

[Amish Heart]

I store loads of dehydrated potato rounds. You rehydrate them and use them in cooking. Then they don't taste like rocks.

 

[Dusty roads]

Yep my potatoes are all on their last legs and sprouting. The potatoes I dried are still good. I dried the potatoes that had gopher bites. I'm new to this stuff so still learning. I just don't know how to get potatoes to last past spring.

 

[Amish Heart]

It's hard to. The ones you buy in the store don't last forever and they were sprayed with some anti sprouting stuff. They'll last longer than home grown, but still not long enough to see you through. And don't use the store boughts for growing. I dehydrate rounds and grated (for hashbrowns).

 

[Dusty roads]

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It's hard to. The ones you buy in the store don't last forever and they were sprayed with some anti sprouting stuff. They'll last longer than home grown, but still not long enough to see you through. And don't use the store boughts for growing. I dehydrate rounds and grated (for hashbrowns).

I am going to do hash brown next to add a little variety. I did rounds this time.
I use a vacuum chamber to seal the 1/2 gallon jars.

 

[Amish Heart]

Yep, I do the same. I have access to raw milk with cream to make my own butter, but I do store some ghee to go with the potatoes. Also store cheese powder for the potatoes. I can get it in quantity at the Amish Bulk Store, and the grandkids like everything better with milk and cheese. Like mac and cheese boxed. Also store the cans of nestle crema to make a table cream for the potatoes if I bake a casserole. Otherwise, they can just go in as is in a stew pot.
For the dehydrated shredded hashbrowns, I like to add dehydrated onion and bell pepper strips. I do my own.