Potatoes

[vick]

Does anybody have any ideas if you can do LTS on potatoes?If so how would you go about it?
Any ideas anyone?:confused:

[ComputerGuy]

Potato flakes?

[vick]

ComputerGuy,Where would you buy potatoe flakes in bulk?

[ComputerGuy]

Winn Dixie? There should be places. Coo op?

[610Alpha]

I would think you should be able to buy flakes at Sams or some other Whole sale food store

[Bearman202]

So what are potato flakes? Sounds like potatoes that have been sliced REALLY small and then dehydrated. Any reason you couldn't do that yourself? Just a thought.

[billm75]

Doing this yourself would probably cost more and take more trouble than it's worth. Probably be best to stock up on the store brands of potato flakes. I know if you go to Sam's or Costco, they have them in bulk for the foodservice industry. Not really expensive either.

Just my uneducated opinion though.

In fact, with a quick google search, I found 10lb. cans of flakes for less than $6. Makes 18 cups. http://beprepared.com/product.asp?pn...cd2=1290571483

[crossbow]

we bought many boxes of these at BJs or Sams and repacked them in mylar,plastic pails for long term and some vacuum packed in mason jars for short term. I figured if the russians, germans survived a few yrs eating wall paper paste that was made from flour,corn starch, water, and had been on the walls for yrs, we could survive with these for a while along with other preps.

[monkeybird]

Actually, the very best way to store potatoes long term is to dehydrate them. Below are photo's I took last summer. I package them in a bag, then process it through the food saver. This double bagging prevents the food saver bag from leaking. After I collect a bucket full, I put the packages inside mylar with O2 absorbers and seal in a bucket.












You just dump the bag directly on your dehydrator. My Costco $39.99 dehydrator works just as good as the very expensive Excalibur brand. I also bought my second dehydrator at a goodwill store for $10.00, and it works just as good as my new one.

You can peel, slice or dice, and blanch raw potatoes or buy the bagged ones at a Publix 2 for 1 sale. It takes a long time to prepared potatoes for dehydration and I believe my time is worth the extra price of the processed ones.

[vick]

Thanks to everyone for the tips and suggestions.I think i will do the store bought and store them in mylar bags and buckets.Thanks again to all.

[ssonb]

The wife and I buy the Idaho brand in the large round container. I has a paper exterior and a foil liner inside. We only buy when it is on sale and with coupons, then we buy quite a few!

[Boyd]

Does anybody have any ideas if you can do LTS on potatoes?If so how would you go about it?
Any ideas anyone?:confused:

Yes, potato pearls, flakes or dehydrated works wonders :)

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