How do you Freeze Potatoes?

[Thogey]

Cook and freeze? Raw?

Mash and freeze?

Potatoes are good food and cheap.

What's the best way to freeze them?

[justoneguy]

Dehydrate them instead.
when i've tried freezing stew and other things with potatoes in them.
they just turned nasty

[Thogey]

There's gotta be a way to freeze them.

The grogery store is full of frozen potatoes.

Are tater tots dehydrated?

[Thogey]

Re-phrase the question. Is there a cheap way to prepare and freeze/store potatoes?

They are .88 for a 10 pound bag here, now.

[tractorman]

I've never froze potatoes, but I'm sure you'll need to blanch/cool them first ... like any other vegetable.

[tractorman]

http://www.pickyourown.org/freezing_potatoes.htm

Plus probably 100 more from a Google search.

[TXTim]

They are so cheap that it's not worth it to grow or freeze them in my opinion.
$3.88 for 15 lbs at kroger here.

[Treetop]

Yeah, youd have to cook them to freeze them... drying would work better... also if your not aware, in a cool stable temp place they should keep for months anyway.... Your a landscaper right? get your crew to dig out a good root cellar perhaps?

as for growing them... if your into healthy foods potatoes are one of the worst to buy "conventional" over organic. they are in the dirt and soak up all those chems more then most things. Also if you grow them and process them right they can store for MUCH longer. especially if you grow the right varieties. also they are cheap its true, but thats because they ARE so easy to grow.

One hint though, for anyone who grow potatoes. you generally grow them from cut up potatoes themselves. this spreads disease. Its a long elaborate process to cut off the disease cycles in potatoes. They lab culture them. anyway... if you do grow them save the seeds! sadly you wont find seed on all varieties. There will be these little quarter sized pods that form out of the flowers. Let those dry down, and inside are seeds. these store for 25 plus years, or some of them will still sprout anyway! so if the disease cycle catches up to you and wipes out your crop, start from those seeds the next year. Or better yet just start over from those seeds every few years (gotta start them early to get full sized potatoes in northern places) and the diseases will never catch up to you. In warm areas you could go from seed every year if you wanted.... potatoes are a sweet plant.

[Treetop]

http://newworldcrops.com/wp/

I know the breeder and others involved in this company. If you want to get some great seeds including potatoes from a top notch source this is it. they sure dont have everything, but they have a lot you simply wont find elsewhere.

[slickeast]

How do you freeze potatoes?

In the freezer....duh

[NotABigDeal]

How do you freeze potatoes?

In the freezer....duh

Hehe, that's what I was thinking. Glad you said it and I didn't have to....

Deal