Frozen or tinned potatoes

I was surprised how good Tescos own brand frozen mash is. Ideal if you need just one portion, add some butter, it’s even better.

Frozen mash is the best any make really

Gingster

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

Frozen roasts are ok.

I totally agree with this you can get loads of different types of frozen potatoes to keep as stand by in the freezer, so handy.

Welbeck

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Not fussed on tinned potatoes unless fried or sprayed with oil and plenty of salt then done in air fryer. I’ve recently discovered pots of potatoes which you just add boiling water to. At 50p a pot you can’t go wrong. I get them from the Iceland warehouse. I usually add a bit of salt and garlic powder but they are ok as they come. The make is Reeva. I’ll try and post a picture if I can but don’t hold your breath.

Thank you all very much for your replies. I think it will be frozen potatoes as a stand by, the tinned ones sound horrible!

I think tinned potatoes are vile. I don't like bought mash either. I sometimes do a large amount of mash (I live on my own) and then I freeze it in sandwich bags in 200 g portions. I usually end up with a portion of mash for that day plus 3 or 4 to go in the freezer. They are easy to thaw in a microwave from frozen. They sometimes come out slightly dryer after freezing, in which case I add a bit of milk to it.

Never tried frozen mash. Aunt Bessie’s roast are OK but can’t compare to the real thing. I keep a tin of Sainsburys potatoes for emergency, drain them and fry them in butter and olive oil. A bit like sauté. Use them maybe once a year.

kircubbin2000

Potatoes keep.No need for frozen.

So does flour, you could say there is no need to buy shop-made bread. It is useful to buy your bread readymade, though. I have a breadmaker, which kneads and bakes my bread twice a week, but I also buy part-baked rolls to freeze and use if I can't even put the ingredients into the pan and set it going. They cook in ten minutes and are crisp and fresh.

For some purposes, ready-prepared and frozen potatoes are very useful. I wouldn't buy frozen baked potatoes, but frozen mash and potato croquettes are at least as good as what I would make, so I always have them in my freezer.

Potatoes keep.No need for frozen.

I par boil then half roast (until just beginning to brown) potatoes. Cool put in a zip lock bag and freeze. Shake out as many as you want spray with a little oil and finish roasting in hot oven or air fryer. Delicious.

We don't mind tinned potatoes done in the air fryer, also sometimes chop them up to pad out a soup or casserole; I'm not a fan of frozen potatoes - except for our own leftover mash (usually including a sweet potato), which we use to make potato patties

Ooh err, I must be a bit 'easy to please'. Tinned spuds - no peeling, no waste, ready in 5. Also like a good jacket or roast but if its just a substitute for peeled boiled spud, tinned are fine.

Frozen mash for emergency use is also very good. It is also useful for singletons as the potatoes come in 2" pellets, so you can take out how many you want. They get excellent reviews, well the Waitrose ones do, so no reason for others to be different.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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