Dry Pack Potatoes Vs Traditional Water Packed Potatoes

Where have you been all of my (canning) life? At 76 I am entering my “mid-life crisis.” I cannot afford a Corvette or a Harley. So, I am learning to cook and can instead. I have been all over the internet learning a lot of things. Your 44 minute video here gave me more useful information than I have gotten in over 200 hours of viewing during the last month. THANK YOU.

This is an under rated channel. Such expertise, well articulated and demonstrated. I learned so much, i will be dry packing many veggies this season. You have a fan here. UPDATE: Yesterday i bought and dry packed 10# of russet potatoes. Cut them into 3/4 inch cubes as best i could. 2 potatoes to a pint jar, filled 16 pints. Processed them in pressure canner for 30 minutes at 13lbs. They did shrink, plus they out-juiced and the starch pooled in the bottom. I used one jar the next day(today) and made restaurant quality breakfast potatoes. Dump them into your pan, pooled starch and all.

Great ideas. I will try! I am almost 78 years old and I learned to can from my mother. She always dry packed her cut okra for frying. Delicious!

I dry packed fingerling potatoes with whole garlic cloves they turned out fantastic... Thank you for the video.

Great video re dry pack canning. Love that you included reasons why you did or didn’t do things,. I did my first dry pack of red potatos tonight, and am a hard convert. Always found the traditional method (water pack) to yield potato’s that tasted weird, but these tasted exactly like a delicious potato. Woot! Thanks also for the experimenting - I like to do that too, but rarely see others show their stuff, if they do it at all.

I've been dry packing taters with skins for 2 years and LOVE them. I use my older water canned taters with skins for tater soup, crock pot meals and such. Like you ,I've canned with Mom and Grandma. I have grannies aluminum funnel like yours. I have the old jars also. I have over 3 dozen blue ball jars all sizes and ages but use for decor only. Most rims have small slivers of glass. You remind me of myself with experimenting. I've made evaporated milk, butter and whole milk shelf stable also. We harvested 55 lbs of taters this year. I gave my purple ones to the kids. I did can a couple jars and they turned light brown. My red taters done great and held their color. I will dry can carrots next time. Glad I found your channel. New sub from East Tennessee. HAPPY CANNING everyone

Came back to say this is THE BEST INFORMATION VIDEO on Utube.. Amazing 👏👏

Just letting you know : I canned 14 quarts of Russet Potatoes today using this method AND THEY DID GREAT ! Thank you so much . This is the 1st time I have canned potatoes & was actually proud of the finished product ! I will definitely be Dry Pack Canning more veggies now . 😍

I've been canning for 30 years and I learned so much from this video! Great work and thanks for making it!

I love your video…I think the advantage to adding butter to your dry pack vegetables is that in an event we can’t get butter your butter would be in your jars….the same with canning some veggies with water so you have both…of course canners usually can broth but if water is scarce then you have it in your Jars … but want to try your dry pack method for taste… 🙏🇺🇸🙏

I just found your dry pack carrots and thought I'd check this out. Loved your examples and comparisons.

I love this! It opens so many more doors for me as I usually don't like certain things canned in water. Potatoes being the number 1 for me. You are awesome! Thank you and subscribing!

So much fun info. Thank you for sharing everything you've experimented with.

Wow… I’m excited to give this a try! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge❣️

WOW! Thank you so much!!! I wish I had watched your video before I pressure canned my potatoes today... The dry pack potatoes look fantastic. I will be processing this was going forward! Lessoned learned with this new canner. 🙂

Oh my gosh! This is such an informative video, I keep viewing it over and over again.

I always said I wish I had a channel to SAY THIS VERY THING!!! so Happy you have posted the difference between an the fact that you Can leave the peels on!!! GREAT VIDEO.. BLESSINGS 💖

Wonderful utube. I learned soo much. Thank you. I will try this for my veggies.

I just found this video and I can't wait to try dry canning some of these vegetables .

What a GREAT video!!! Im so happy I found you this morning!!! Very very helpful video. I am brand new at pressure canning and I did dry pack potatoes recently ( St. Patrick's Day sale :) ) They are like roasted potatoes in a jar! Delicious! Thank you for the info on all the other veggies dry packed. Im going to give those a try too! You are a wonderful teacher! I'm going to share this video on my canning group on FB. Thank you and have a nice day!