Use 1/2 water 1/2 milk and add butter. Bring the watet, milk and butter tp a full boil, add your flakes, salt & peper, stir, cover and let sit for at least 5-6 minutes. Should produce bettet results.
You poor thing! You really had to PAY for learning the hard way! I just looked on the directions of my dehydrated mashed potato pearls, and 1 cup potatoes plus 2 cups water makes 4 servings. (I always go with 1/2 cup of potatoes and 1 cup of water.) One thing I discovered at least with the ones I have is that it is VERY important to put the potatoes in a bowl then add BOILING water and whisk it briskly right away. That is the ONLY way it works with the ones I have. Then you can add more water or milk if you want it creamier. It's a GREAT idea to learn to dehydrate them yourself, because the ready-made are costy!
What you could try is take some of your remaining potato flakes, grind them into a powder, and then repeat the process of adding them to boiled water. Looks as though Lena didn't mind them at all though!
That's what I'm thinking. I'm sure adding milk would help too, but if I was trying to recreate how I'd prepare them with no grocery store in the equation, there would be no milk.
@@GreatLakesPrepping You could store some powdered milk and some canned evaporated milk (not the condensed though) and add that to the potatoes, along with some butter.
He's clearly not used to making mashed potatoes with fresh potatoes. When you make your own flakes like that, it's going to be more dense and need fat and liquid to lighten it. Store bought potato fakes need less water.
I think the problem was more that I'd pretty much only made mashed potatoes with fresh potatoes before this (like, actual fresh potatoes and not flakes).
