Frozen or tinned potatoes

Potato waffles in the freezer are a handy standby, as are hash browns.

Tinned potatoes don't taste like potatoes at all, but they are useful to add to a tin of soup.

The one time I froze mashed potatoes they were not nice at all.
Any tips please. Do you mash with milk and butter and then freeze or add the milk and butter after reheating?. Do you reheat from frozen or defrost first?

I bought stack of tins from a closing down shop and one contained potatoes.
They were foul and I couldn't eat them .
I haven't tried freezing potatoes.
One of the local cafes reheats baked potatoes and they aren't nice .
I cook baked potatoes in the microwave and it only takes ten minutes .

Love tinned potatoes, sliced and fried in a bit of butter.

I have never bought tinned potatoes in my life but I won a large can on a tombola stall. They sat in the cupboard for ages then I saw a recipe using them so I tried it and they were not too bad. It was some sort of hash thing with corned beef I recall. I wouldn’t buy them again though.

I buy potatoes in small sacks and keep them in the garage.
Thy seem to last forever and are so cheap.

The best way to freeze potatoes is to cook a few in the oven as jackets, cool, remove the flesh and mash with butter, milk and season replace in skins and freeze.

Take them out as you need them.

Tinned potatoes are quite good roasted in olive oil with dried rosemary.

I have experimented with the tinned potatoes. Must be strained and dried off: kitchen paper ? Then fried in an emergency🆘 not too bad with that other “marmite” tinned food stuff sliced corned beef dished up with some pickled baby or crinkle cut beetroot -in a nod to healthy eating then garnished with a dab of HP sauce.Voila!
An entirely processed meal from the cupboard.

Bottled potatoes, they do not come in tins here, are only edible if you slice and fry them.

If you have room in your freezer, you are far better off making mashed potatoes and freezing them in a suitable quantity for one meal.

Unfortunately, most potatoes have been washed before being packed and sold now, but even so, they last longer if you take them out of the packet or net they are sold in, as soon as you come home from the shops and store them in a wooden or cardboard box, lined with newspapers in a cool (frost-free) dark place, than if you keep them under the sink, or in the fridge.

I store mine in the cellar, which is unheated - they remain unwrinkled for at least a month, after that they tend to sprout, but you can knock the sprouts of before peeling them.

Tinned are vile.

I thought tinned potatoes had sunk without trace in the Seventies.

Only use frozen roasties, frozen mash and frozen jackets and chips these days. I don't eat potatoes often so buying fresh just for me is wasteful.

Auntie Betty's and ALDI are both very good for frozen potatoes.

Don't bother with tinned.

Frozen mash and roast are OK, as long as you check on the butter an fat contents.
I do buy Tesco mash and root veg mash from Morrisons from the chill counter and freeze them.
Tinned potatoes are great for slicing and frying, and perhaps in a casserole, but they do taste differently.
I keep a sack of spuds in my garage - they last months

I bought tinned potatoes during Covid, all a can say is they were difficult to eat

You could batch roast and freeze your own potatoes. I wouldn’t bother with tinned.

I freeze leftover roast potatoes, chop and use in soup.

Elegran

I am one of those who say frozen mash is good. At least, Auntie Bessie's is good and so is Tesco's own brand. I haven't tried any others. It is useful to have a bag in the feezer - they are in small lumps, so you can take out as many as you need at a time, put them in the microwave with a little water and a knob of butter for a few minutes and give them a stir.

Same with a bag of potato croquettes, they take 15 minutes or so in the oven or air-fryer and are crisp outside and soft inside.

Potato Pops are Malteser-size balls of potato in batter, better for nibbles than a meal, but they go down well with children.

What are the ingredients as it sounds really good but I’m careful what o feed my grandchildren. As in palm oil, sweeteners etc.

Frozen hash browns and chips are ok for back up. Roasts tend not to be so nice. For a treat freeze M&S dauphinoise potatoes - they are yummy.

Menopauselbitch If I remember rightly, the ingredients for the frozen mashed potato are the same as you would use yourself - potatoes, salt and butter. From the taste, the salt is a reasonable amount, but I will look in the freezer and report back on that and the croquettes.

I think Aunt Bessie’s frozen roast potatoes in duck fat are delicious.
Cooking for myself only, they are also so convenient.

I must try the frozen mash as didn’t realise they made it.

I have tinned new potatoes sometimes with tinned peas together.
They are ok.

I used to agree about tinned potatoes but my daughter said that if you drain them and spray them with cooking oil they taste really nice in the air fryer. I'm not sure I believe her but I do have a tin of potatoes in the cupboard just in case. I also have a tin of Brussel Sprouts but I'm not sure if I will EVER try them. Might donate them to a Food Bank in the end.

More nutritional details on each page.
Tesco Mashed Potato 900G
www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/292797630
INGREDIENTS: Potato (88%), Water, Concentrated Butter (Milk), Dried Whole Milk, Salt, White Pepper.

Tesco Potato Croquettes 700g
www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/315058686
INGREDIENTS: Potato (80%), Wheat Flour, Sunflower Oil, Dried Potato, Salt, Maize Starch, Stabilisers (Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose, Disodium Diphosphate), Rice Protein, Whey Powder (Milk), Yeast, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Thickeners (Guar Gum, Xanthan Gum), Black Pepper Extract, Water.

The potato pops are not Tesco's own brand, but Tesco stock them. Their right name is Hearty Food Co Crispy Potato Pops 500G and the Tesco web page for them is at www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299538943

INGREDIENTS: Potato (81%), Sunflower Oil, Rice Flour, Dried Potato, Potato Starch, Salt, Dextrose, Stabiliser (Methyl Cellulose), White Pepper, Onion Powder.

Migraine has just struck, sorry for any mistakes/typos.

I no longer eat much potato and found that a bag of potatoes would go bad before we had time to finish them, plus arthritis in my hands makes it painful to actually peel them, so recently I’ve been buying frozen mashed potatoes for hubby, he’s not noticed any difference from fresh and it saves me time and pain, I also buy Dauphinoise potatoes which makes a nice alternative to plain mashed potatoes