Frozen or tinned potatoes

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

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

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

Don't bother with tinned.

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.

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

Tinned are vile.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 .

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?

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

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

Another fan of aunt Bessie’s frozen mash.
Always have a bag or two in the freezer.

I use Tesco basic frozen potatoes, I’m not a fan of roast potatoes but DH really likes them so keep a bag of these in the freezer.
I find the trick is to cook them on their own on a baking tray- put them in to roast for about 15 minutes, then take the tray out, cut the larger potatoes n half, drizzle a little cooking oil over them and pop back in till crispy.
Oh and I ignore cooking instructions, they always need longer to get a crispy exterior.

Neither. If I ran out of potatoes I would serve rice or pasta.

Tinned potatoes, that brings back memories. Sometimes I'd go round one of my friend's for tea and get given a tin of Heinz soup with tinned potatoes added, it was quick and simple I suppose. They sometimes had Goblin pudding with tinned potatoes and tinned peas. It wasn't that unusual in the 70s, lots of food was tinned. My mum was a really good cook and friends loved it if she invited them for tea, or Sunday lunch was even better, not a tinned potato in sight, and homemade trifle for 'afters' 😂

A packet of Idaho mash can serve 3 and is pretty good.
Haven't tried frozen mash.
Tinned potatoes are beyond disgusting.
Im not really a fan of frozen roast potatoes though dh thinks they are grand.
Frozen baked potatoes are good. I usually cook as directed in the microwave then rub with butter and give them about ten minutes in the air fryer to crisp up. Good if you like to eat to eat the skin.

Sorry Cossy I didn’t see your post.

M&S mashed potato is ok, just add butter.You can freeze it.

Gingster

Don’t bother with tinned. Horrible. Soft and tasteless.

Frozen roasts are ok.

I agree.

Neither.
Fresh potatoes or extra vegetables.