Dehydrating Potatoes -
Here's a Few Easy Ways!

Potatoes are everyone's favorites and I'll show you how they can be easily dehydrated from pre-cooked, sliced potatoes!

The hash browns are great in vegetable soups, and the sliced potatoes make a mean potato and bacon hash!

TIP: if using frozen hash browns, drop the frozen unopened bag on the kitchen counter-top a few times to break up any clumps. If clumps persist, run the clump under cool running water for a few seconds -- that should do the trick!

Potatoes are loaded with a range of vitamins: vitamin A, vitamin C, and Choline, followed by Niacin, Thiamin, vitamin B6, Pantothenic Acid, and Betaine. Trace amounts of vitamin K, and Folate.

Minerals to be found in potatoes are Potassium, followed by Phosphorus, Magnesium, and Calcium. There are trace amounts of Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Copper and Selenium.

Potatoes contain Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids too.



How To Dehydrate Potatoes

If using frozen hash brown potatoes, simply ignore steps 1, 2, and 3.

1) Gently scrub and wash potatoes in the sink

2) Put in a pan of water, NO SALT, and bring to a boil, simmer for 20 minutes

3) Place potatoes in a bowl, and when cooled off, put in the refrigerator overnight. This helps tremendously when you slice them tomorrow into 3/8" slices! I leave the skins on, as there are loads of nutrients in the skins too

4) Arrange the potatoes on your food dehydrator trays, making sure the potatoes don't overlap

5) Turn on your food dehydrator and set the temperature between 125°F and 135°F (or per your food dehydrator's instructions).

Potatoes will be leathery and/or brittle when fully dried.

Drying time for potatoes: between 6-14 hours.

Please remember to rotate your trays for even drying.

Here is another way to store potatoes: freeze them. Take a look at Judie's site, best-potato-recipes.com, which is chock full of great potato soups, casseroles, grilled potatoes, and of course - mashed potatoes! Judie and I share a great love of potatoes, as I too could eat them in any form until they come out my ears! Superb comfort food, and a bargain to boot.


THIS just in:

Joan, fondly known as the "Case Hardened Lady" wrote in to tell us how she prepares her potatoes for dehydrating. Here it is, straight from Joan:

"Started batch number four of potatoes this morning. Things are running quickly and smoothly now that I have the routine down.

Still forget to start heating the blanching water first though, it takes about 20 minutes on my stove. I'm doing sliced raw potatoes. Anyway in my mind it takes longer to peel and slice potatoes than to get the water boiling.

In reality it's only a few minutes of prep, then potatoes are ready and the water isn't. Oh, what a journey these 99 cent bags of potatoes have taken me on!"

Joan, thanks for writing in! :-)

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