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Tinned potatoes
Does anyone else use these?
I always have a few time in the cupboard. I add them to stews, slice them and layer on top of mince with cheese grated over, roast them or fry them. Great for potato salad. I buy fresh potatoes but forget about them and find they have grown green tails about 6"s long when I want use them. Any new ideas for using tinned potatoes? |
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I have used many tins of potatoes
I liked to dry them with some paper towel and sizzle them whole in a fry pan so they turn all golden and crispy on the outside and sprinkle with s&p or the same idea ----------- when they are cut into slices also nice fried & tossed into a salad - or cut to resemble chips to fry and have with s&p Vinegar and some sauce or make a *pretendy* >>>>>>>>>>>> hot chip sani or added to a nice big fry up or just sizzled with a fried egg and onion and tomato - and baked beans or into a frittata type egg mix combo sizzled with chorizo - or mushrooms etc etc or like a quick potato salad mixed with peas and red onion and salad cream etc Nice sprinkled with oil in slices and laid on a HOT cast iron griddle pan to get the sizzled dark line markings nice with corned beef to make a quick corned beef hashy meal |
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Carole...I paid 80p for big tin BOGOF in tesco today. Knowing you though you probably got them for 6p 😜
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Carole...I paid 80p for big tin BOGOF in tesco today. Knowing you though you probably got them for 6p 😜
!!!! hahahaha >>>>>> Not yet - Maybe sometime I will - & you too hopefully
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I very occasionally make garlic buttered New Potatoes. Or I would use them in a curry.
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I have to say that tinned potatoes taste horrible and real potatoes keep so well they shouldn't be necessary. Potatoes should be stored in a dark breathable sack such as Hessian or if not available then say a brown paper bag. The plastic bags you buy them in are useless for storage so decant them as soon as you get home.
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I like tinned potatoes..........they have a unique taste but one that I like !
Terrific for bulking out curries and stews I also like to slice and simmer them and add them to a tin of baked beans to be served with chilli sauce...... ![]() You can get really cheap tins in the Value and Basics ranges which are just fine |
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Had them years ago...nice with some salad ,,good ideas though OP
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I've given up buying bags of potatoes unless it's just a bag of four for baking immediately. No matter how I keep them they'll have either sprouted tentacles within a few days or developed those green patches, which I believe are poisonous.
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Potatoes should be stored in a dark breathable sack such as Hessian or if not available then say a brown paper bag. The plastic bags you buy them in are useless for storage so decant them as soon as you get home.
![]() decant (dɪˈkænt) vb 1. (Brewing) to pour (a liquid, such as wine) from one container to another, esp without disturbing any sediment 2. (Building) to rehouse (people) while their homes are being rebuilt or refurbished |
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I wrap potatoes in a towel and keep them in a dark cupboard.
They last for ages. ![]() Haven't tried tinned ones for years but this thread has inspired me try them again. |
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Never seen the point in tinned potatoes as the fresh ones as so cheap and they tend to taste plasticy.
I'm trying to cut back on spuds any other carbs anyway. |
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Was at Morrisons between 3pm and 4pm closing time today
Because of this thread - I bought 1 large tin of their *savers* tinned Potatoes - at their regular price of 19p Not tried them before - so I've no idea what they will taste like |
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Was at Morrisons between 3pm and 4pm closing time today
Because of this thread - I bought 1 large tin of their *savers* tinned Potatoes - at their regular price of 19p Not tried them before - so I've no idea what they will taste like ![]() I never thought that it was possible to buy a tin of anything for 19p.
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I like tinned potatoes..........they have a unique taste but one that I like !
To make that, make sure mince tin is (ideally slightly) smaller diameter than the spud tin. Use can opener that cuts lid on the inside of the rim & cut all way around spud lid. Stand mince tin on lid & apply pressure in a student-safe kind of way so lid goes inside spud tin and makes mash. Saves on washing up. But, assuming one has some new potatoes, how would one go about making that tinned potato taste & texture? |
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Same here and use'em in much the same way as Choccy, partly for taste, partly for texture. And speed. Spud salad done quick, or 2-tin rapid mince & mash.
To make that, make sure mince tin is (ideally slightly) smaller diameter than the spud tin. Use can opener that cuts lid on the inside of the rim & cut all way around spud lid. Stand mince tin on lid & apply pressure in a student-safe kind of way so lid goes inside spud tin and makes mash. Saves on washing up. But, assuming one has some new potatoes, how would one go about making that tinned potato taste & texture? ![]()
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The only tinned potatoes i've used have been peeled new/baby potatoes and that's because the recipie I was using them in worked better with peeled potatoes and I really couldn't be arsed peeling small new/baby potatoes.
http://www.mutherfudger.co.uk/2013/0...sted-potatoes/ Now though I just slice potatoes and cook them in wine and stock and then put eh fish on top to steam for the last five minutes. I've not seen any other types of tinned potatoes. |
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Please report back.
![]() I never thought that it was possible to buy a tin of anything for 19p. ![]() Value sliced carrots 19p: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/produ.../?id=259510224 |
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Lol...........and you are probably serious too.
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I'm an engineer. For even less washing up, use large tin of spuds, smaller tin of mince and empty mince into spud tin. Remove label from spud tin and heat on something convenient. For the truly creative, fill empty mince tin with sand, a bit of diesel & turn that into your heater. For the extra posh touch, stand spud tin in a field-expedient bain-marie aka mess tin.
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I like them with salad and plenty of salad cream on
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Disgusting things.
If all I had left to eat was a tin of potato's I'd slit my wrists with the lid. |
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What exactly do they do to tinned potatoes (and tinned carrots for that matter) to make them like that? They still have the same shape but nothing of the same taste or texture
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Tesco Value mushy peas 16p: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/produ.../?id=253347801
Value sliced carrots 19p: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/produ.../?id=259510224
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Do you mean "rehouse" them?
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