Love it that you are showing people how to easily can potatoes. I buy them when on sale and can a bunch now that our growing season is over. So easy to make potato soup and side dishes quickly. Thanks for sharing!
I love having lots of canned taters on the shelves! So much you can do with them. My fav way now is..I dump them in a colander & rinse off any excess starch. After they are drained well..spray with a bit of cooking spray, season up with your fav seasoning (Greek seasoning is really good) & pop them in the air fryer..soooo good! I bough a couple bags of red potatoes today..gotta can up some more french fries this week. I went all last week without canning & am having withdrawals! :)
SARAH COURTNEY...I have yet to use an air fryer, but Mark bought a deep fryer not long ago, and space is limited. The newer ones are easier to clean, but I still won't...that too is his to maintain!! we personally like to use canned potato "chunks" as home fries or as potato salads.
rosemary gagnon...Thank you so much! perhaps i'm still too small a channel for that, but actually I did have the first one approach me with a product this past week or so...I wasn't interested!
Good for you!😁I can't tell you how many times I've tuned in to a channel for a certain recipe or pantry talk topic and got all the infomercial and sales pitch before the actual item they had posted for!i realize you can skip forward but find it discouraging
Thank you, Toni. I love watching your canning videos. Have rewatched several of them several times. lol. Bought a pressure canner. Now trying to get all the stuff organized in my small space so I can get busy. Potatoes then beans; first two items on my list. 🤞
I just love canned potatoes, in fact we had homefries this morning with our eggs. If I had more storage space I would have four cases done up all the time. Thanks Toni, see you again soon. Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍗🍷🍁
I really need to try this. I live in Florida and you cannot keep potatoes down here, they rot so quickly in the heat and humidity. If I buy a 10 bag of potatoes on the 1st day if the month by the 30th day any I haven't used will be rotten (🤢 is there anything stinker than a rotten potatoes) plus after the first 2 weeks I will be checking every day for ones that are soft and about to rot. I've started keeping dried potatoes on hand at all times. I need to try canning some too! 👍
Gidget...I used to keep fresh potatoes in my basement in a cold cellar...(all/most Canadian homes have cellars, I understand that most US homes are built on slabs. few cellars) They would last about 6 months...now I keep fresh potatoes in the bottom crisper of the refrigerator...I had way too many there...Had to can up a portion of them or they would have gone bad for sure!
We bought (way too many) bags of potatoes from Sam's. I've been dehydrating and canning potatoes for 2 days. We literally have potatoes coming out of our ears.🤣 I love having having them on hand. I cannot wait to try the French fries! I dehydrated potatoes into chips( they look like egg noodles), I got 9 trays in a half gallon jar!! I love the space saving of dehydrating.
Tony, my pressure canner only holds 5 pints or 4 quarts (Nesco), do I put the potatoes in the jars with the water and wait for the others to get done, or keep them in cold water until the canner is empty again?? Love your channel, thank you.
I don't believe there is any hard and fast rule, But I would leave them in cold water until you are ready to can them...the heat does tend to cook potatoes.
Susan Olague...soft, but not mushy...but mostly that depends on the type of potato you are canning...the least starchy types hold together better than the real starchy ones!
Hi and thanks for posting! If you were adding to a stew would you add at the very end so they don't just melt into the gravy? Have you used these for au grautin potatoes or would they fall apart?
Susan Ruzicka...I like some of the potato to melt into the gravy and also to have chunks to eat...so both! one batch early and another at the end. I have not used these au grautin, I have stove top home fried and crisped and also used in "quick prep" potato salads.
I’m a new canner and was instructed to cold pack the potatoes with room temperature water and then bring everything to temperature in the canner so that the glass jars do not break. I noticed that you added hot water to the jars. Were your jars hot too? And did you put them into a preheated canner? Thank you so much. Those purple potatoes were cool looking.
Hey Toni, I thought I had seen a video where you fry canned potatos? I can’t find it now. Could be I was wrong. I want to try it and I always trust your methods so I was hoping you had a tutorial.
Do your potatoes liquid come out starchy or thick? I have done a few methods and the liquid is still thick. What could I be doing wrong? I have used yellow and Russell potatoes. They taste okay but I don't like the starchy look. Thanks Kim
Potatoes are starchy so when you can potatoes you are cooking them as well so the water will hold some of that starch. The Russet potatoes are the most starchy. The yellow should be less so...as are the red and white potatoes...one way to eliminate "some" of the starch in the water is to wash off the surface starch before canning...rinse really well with cold water...that will will help a bit!!!
Richard Drerxel...I do not! boiling before canning will remove air from the vegetable and prevent floating...I just try to pack them tightly raw...they come out just fine!
I always try to use hot water, both in my jars and in my canner, as anything that I can will have to be heated anyway...if by chance I use cold water in my jars then I also start with cold water in my canner...
Jessica Bailey...I'm afraid I don't know what they are called other than purple potatoes, I understand that there are a few different varieties and those have different names, but that's it.
