Instant potatoes

I buy instant potato cups sometimes just for the convenient. Fill one with water, microwave for a minute and a half, and it's ready.

Good to have a box/can on hand. Instant potato quickly with cream, heavy even, and butter. A deli owner gave he his trick, a bit sprinkled in tuna salad keeps it from being runny. I have used it successfully in thickening a spaghetti sauce.

They’re just dehydrated potatoes. I think they taste good and they’re ridiculously easy to make, but fresh mashed potatoes are still better.

Instant potatoes are good for making potato rolls too.

They’re ok in a pinch but I like the taste of instant polenta (corn grits) much better.

Just microwave pierced Green Giant Golden potatoes for 5 - 7 minutes and you have the real thing. Top with salt, pepper, and butter....delicious, especially on a winter evening.

I want to try instant potatoes. Baked potatoes take so long.

GREAT as a thickener for soups

Why eat this shit when you don't have to? Highly processed food is poison.

- Deb Downer

I like them and think they're tasty. Making mashed from scratch is alot and will only do it when I have company for dinner which is rare.

They can be stored for much longer than regular potatoes and require less prep. That is the reason for their existence.

My mother made them for us kids. She also made us powdered milk.

But we lived in the best school district in the area, so I never knew we were poor.

I like the red package Idaho brand.

They're useful for different bread machine recipes. I grew up with them, and even remember Julia Child using them, but haven't tried them for a long time.

Whatever you do, don’t pour an old box of potato flakes down the sink.

Much worse - CANNED potatoes. DL fave and former First Concubine of NY made potato salad with canned potatoes. I almost gagged thinking about it.

I think they're tasty. I grew up in a family where, as my French grandmother called them, podadoes were a big staple. I love the instants and honestly can't taste the difference.

How to dress up instant mashed potatoes:

They’re fine. I keep a box or package in my pantry at all times. Especially for hamburger gravy over them

Make them with broth.

Potatoes taste like nothing, the flavor is from all that shit people put on them.

Potatoes flakes are despair in a box.

I usually purchased the flakes but tried the powder stuff that comes in a pouch and it didn't work for me. The pouch directions are to use the whole pouch for 4(?) servings, but as a single person, I tried to divide the potato powder to make one serving. My measurements were off and the end product was very very salty.

I have better luck with the flakes - easier to portion for one. Some of the flake potatoes taste fine, but I find some brands have flakes that don't blend into the milk completely. The texture is grainy no matter how much more liquid/butter I add or cook longer.

I love instant mashed potatoes. It's always been a guilty pleasure. I always pour a little beef stew over mine.

Some of the new ones taste great and it's not that much different than regular mashed potatoes.

Some people can be such snobs - it's perfectly fine in a pinch. And it is great as a thickening agent.

“Excuse me, but what are Potato Buds?” “I don’t know, why don’t you put them through college?”

Buck would never eat Idaho spuds!

I have GI issues so I always have a four pack of the cups around. They're OK. Certainly no replacement for the real thing, and I wouldn't eat them all the time, but the Idaho brand in particular tastes pretty close to the real deal.

Instant potatoes are a great gluten-free substitute for bread crumbs when making panades for meatballs and meatloafs.

I whip up a batch if I run out of lube.

In Italy, potato flakes are used to thicken hot chocolate.

I haven't had instant mashed potatoes in years probably because the last time i had them they looked like the glue we used to use in grade school and tasted like ass.

There was some TikTok trend many months back that I didn't understand, having to do with using potato flakes as a means to vandalize people's front lawns just before it rains. Did anybody else ever make sense of that one?

I haven't tried it, but I understand they are a good way to whip up a quick gnocchi dish. I'd recommend a recipe that uses an egg, and not just flour, water, and instant potatoes.

I remember my mother sometimes used to use them to make baked chicken, and I remember I liked it, but I haven't tried it.

Bob's Red Mill instant potatoes (flakes) are quite good.

My mother used to make these when we were kids. She also used powdered milk occasionally. R12. I hated them. They had a weird aftertaste. Fun fact: I got grounded once for asking if “we were going to have real potatoes tonight.“