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I used to buy these at Costco but they quit carrying them a year or so ago. I just found them on Amazon. They're dehydrated and will keep forever or longer. I keep a few ctns in the camper. They can be reconstituted in a few minutes and taste great, especially with bacon and eggs. One thing though - the 4.2 oz ctns say 7 servings. For a midget on a diet maybe. If you're hungry at all, a ctn is 2, or no more than 3 servings.

HASHBROWNS

They're okay. I like the frozen ones better. Still better are just freshly sliced potatoes, fried in bacon grease, with onions and garlic.

But these will keep indefinitely without refrigeration. A couple boxes stuck in with your hunting stuff can be very handy sometime.

Thanks!!!

Mice would love them

Those style potatoes are great.

Fill the carton with water and avoid cooking altogether.

the idaho spuds people do some great stuff with boxed tators. their mashed mix is my go-to around the house. i also use it for big dinners for the legion, church, etc. hard to tell the diff. these hashbrowns look like something i would like. figures you can't buy it local anymore. i may order a case for camp. lot easier than grinding potatoes, onions, etc, etc.

Those work for sure!

I have used a similar product sold by Sysco. Six big cartons in a box. Friend who had a restaurant ordered them for me.
Now I buy the ones from "Simply Potatoes". Not dried however.
I have tried several ways of making hashbrowns from raw potatoes. I just am never really satisfied with the results however.

Big effin box

I just bought more at Costco the other day. I've also picked them up at Cal Ranch stores too.

Bb

The Costco in Twin? Where do they have them. I've been all through there looking for them.

Key to making your own at home is using Russet Burbank potatoes don't use the early variety Norkotas. Some people use left over baked potatoes around here to grate for hash browns. I like country style and my mom showed me years ago how to make them perfect from raw potatoes.

You dice raw burbanks into about 1 cm cubes. Put them in a frying pan that has heated olive olive oil in it. Sprinkle with a bit of lawreys season salt and fresh ground back pepper. Put the lid on and fry them for several minutes with the lid on. Leave them alone and leave the lid on until the downside browns. Then flip them and add a bit more olive oil or bacon drippings from the bacon you're frying on the griddle. Put the lid back on until that side browns up. Then take the lid off and stir them all a few times while you finish browning them all around and crisp them up.

Making them from raw spuds requires frying with the lid on for a while first so they steam and cook through.

Bb

Yep, they are great. My household prefers them to the frozen kind, although we get Hungry Jack brand here.

I bought them at the new Costco in Idaho Falls. I used to get them at the Pocatello one too. If Twin doesn't have them I can pick some up for you and bring them down next time I go see my parents in Burley. They aren't very expensive there.

Bb

The complexities of cooking a potato...

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Anyone ever tried shredding and dehydrating their own?

I grew close to 40 lbs of taters this year, wife and I figured on running some through the shredder attachment on the mixer and freezing them, but dehydrating sounds like a longer lasting idea.

Thanks for the offer but the gas to get them to me would be much more than the difference in price between Costco and Amazon.