Canned Potatoes. Are They Edible?

At home we use fresh gold or yellow potatoes. For camping, we buy these canned whole potatoes for convenience. Warm them on the stove season and butter them.

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I placed an online order for some groceries. I ordered two cans of store brand diced potatoes. They sent me fifteen cans. I decided to make some quick potato salad and used the store brand can of diced potatoes...đźš«
 

CallMeKate said:
Okay, personal opinion here... to me, they don't taste much like potatoes *but* others in the household like them, so I buy them. They're okay to put in things like stews and soups, but the only way I really like them (the diced) is to fry some in a pan and add a beaten egg over top to scramble together... sometimes spinach, and serve it with toast. Another reason I buy them for the pantry is that I can get the no salt added version and then add the sodium-free seasonings of choice. (that would be onion powder, garlic powder, pepper, and sometimes salt-free Cajun seasoning.)
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I don't eat eggs but tofu. This is a good idea however to cook with tofu in the microwave. I'll give that a try. Thanks.
 
IrisSenior said:
I didn't know you could still buy canned potatoes but my grocery stores has no name ones. I remember being tasteless. I just cook up a pot of boiled potatoes and eat them over a few days (either re-heated or cold).
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That's what I usually do also. I'm trying to use the stove top less as summer is on the way. This apartment is 30 years old and I know it's the original AC until. It's a piece of crap and doesn't work great.
 
officerripley said:
It's so funny how a thread on here will be so timely: last week, I decided to buy some canned potatoes after not buying any for years. I bought a can and put it in the pantry. Huzz had stopped by the store and bought a small container of mashed potatoes (small because I hate mashed potatoes :ROFLMAO: ) and when he pulled it out of the fridge to heat up, discovered he had bought pizza dough by mistake! :ROFLMAO: So I pulled out that can of potatoes and he liked 'em just fine. I'm gonna buy another can or 2; they're handy to have around. It's true that they don't taste exactly like or as good as the non-canned but they're nice to have just in case. (Like when someone persists in grocery shopping without his reading glasses with him! :ROFLMAO: )
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That's cute. Bagged pizza dough is really good, at least the Trader Joe's one.
 
Georgiagranny said:
A hot tip about using canned veggies. To cut down on the amount of sodium, rinse them before using.

And BTW, yanno how we've been told for years not to store potatoes in the fridge? Well, now the consensus seems to be that there's no harm in doing that. At all!

There is no charge for these tidbits of information and no trees were harmed in obtaining it.
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That's a good tip. I'm putting the few small yellow potatoes I bought in the fridge. It's 80 degrees in the apartment.
 
Thanks for the many replies. I will be trying them. They only had WINCO brand and I'm going to try a brand name. Though I know from working in a cannery, those items can leave with many different labels from the plant.
 
As a person that made a living selling fresh produce, I find the idea of canned potatoes a little off putting. However, I do use frozen peas and corn in soups and pot pies.

And yes keep the spuds in the fridge (and in darkness), storage potatoes have been under refrigeration for months and "new" potatoes are cooled and shipped refrigerated as well. Growing up we had a separate fridge for potatoes which held 50 lbs of 3 different varieties.
 
I never liked canned potatoes. I do buy instant mashed potatoes though. I can make them taste like mashed potatoes made from scratch by using almond milk, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray and onion-chive or onion-basil flavored cream cheese. I heat the mixture in the microwave...takes about 1.5 minutes tops (for 1 or 2 servings).
 
And then there are french fries. If you like making a big production out of cooking up potatoes, french fries might be the answer. Imagine having a deep fryer alongside your stove top. It would be pretty versatile too. There's no end to the other things you can deep fry, and you can't tell me this stuff isn't good. Just ask corporate management at McDonald's. Of course, you will probably shave 20 years off your life expectancy.
 
I buy them for soup or sometimes a stew. We tend to eat whatever we "feel like having that day", and I got tired of throwing away potatoes and yams that we ended up not using after all.

I never thought much of instant mashed potatoes but the newest mixes actually aren't too bad. And again - convenience! Plus portion control - you don't get tempted to make - and then eat - a huge amount of over-rich mashed potatoes made with lots of butter and cream.
 
Now don't all laugh at me , but today I learned that you can buy canned chicken !!!:oops:

I was watching a YT video of an American cooking low carb food, and she was using canned chicken..like the size of a little tuna fish can.. I was like.. Woah, who would eat that ?.. so I googled our various supermarkets and sure enough they sell it too.. I had no idea it was a thing.. !! lol
 
Jules said:
Packages of scallops potatoes are handy. I toss the mix and just add the potatoes to my own sauce. Same with soup, I toss in some of those dehydrated ones.
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I used to love those!
My daughter, when she was very little, wrote a poem for school about, "the day it rained hot cheese potatoes." lol ♥
 
JustDave said:
And then there are french fries. If you like making a big production out of cooking up potatoes, french fries might be the answer. Imagine having a deep fryer alongside your stove top. It would be pretty versatile too. There's no end to the other things you can deep fry, and you can't tell me this stuff isn't good. Just ask corporate management at McDonald's. Of course, you will probably shave 20 years off your life expectancy.
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I'd better pass on that suggestion! :D I do enough chips and oven fries but I won't be using my oven anymore for the season. Air fryer? I don't know.

If I ever move and have more counter space, I want to look into one of those counter top toaster oven type devices.
 
Lethe200 said:
I buy them for soup or sometimes a stew. We tend to eat whatever we "feel like having that day", and I got tired of throwing away potatoes and yams that we ended up not using after all.

I never thought much of instant mashed potatoes but the newest mixes actually aren't too bad. And again - convenience! Plus portion control - you don't get tempted to make - and then eat - a huge amount of over-rich mashed potatoes made with lots of butter and cream.
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I like the Bob's Red Mill instant mashed potatoes.
 
Remy said:
I'd better pass on that suggestion! :D I do enough chips and oven fries but I won't be using my oven anymore for the season. Air fryer? I don't know.

If I ever move and have more counter space, I want to look into one of those counter top toaster oven type devices.
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Remy, when you move you might want to consider getting a stove top convection oven. Find one big enough to hold a 9"x13" pan, and you won't miss your full sized oven. Most days I cook for just me, so I don't need to use my big oven. I only use my big oven for braising something like a large pot roast or when I need to use a sheet pan. Everything else goes in the smaller convection oven.
 

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