Our Homegrown POTATOES are Going in the FREEZER!
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- Sarah is still going strong with preserving! Today she turns her attention back to potatoes. She has 3 potato preserving projects for the freezer. O'Brien potatoes, French fries, and roasting potatoes.
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"Do we need any more kitchen gadgets? Yes we do!" Love it!
I have that same conversation with myself all the time. I laughed so hard when Sarah said that.
Cheryl Casio that was my favorite part of the video! I feel the exact same way! 😂
I Loved watching your “ animated” video today. You are so delightful! Thanks for all the tips!
I agree! Her excitement is contagious. I don't even grow potatoes and I want one of these devices!
@@danikamatters3270 Me, too! LOL
My dad used to own French fry concession stands and we grew up on french fries all summer. He had a huge industry potatoe pealer, and 50 pound bags of potatoes stacked in the back of a box truck. Every morning we had to peel enough potatoes for the crowds for the whole day and night. He used big metal garbage cans filled with cold water to keep the potatoes there close to the stand. He also had a potato cutter like that one but a little bigger, bolted to the counter in the stand. Fresh french fries made to order in a welded deep fryer vats he hand made himself. We sold a lot of them growing up.
We have restaurant Penn Station that does home cut fries per order. Gotta love them crispy crunchy morsels.
That is so awesome.......thank you for sharing that! A true walk down memory lane. Hard work but honest good work!
@@mlm7598 thanks.
WOW!
Sounds like fun way to make money
HaHa HELL...enjoyed hearing of your mini potato industry. A lot of work by your Dad and family. Thanks for sharing.
In a professional kitchen, we put it die towards your stomach and bucket of water on a milk crate on the floor. As you pull the lever towards you, it creates a much more natural action that saves your shoulder and elbow. If it is right on the edge of the counter, the fries will fall directly into the bucket! Muscle and time saver!!!
Sweeties if you place your onions in the fridge for 30 min before you cut them up, you will have no tears! Loved your video!
“I’ll just smack the bag on the counter” 😂 love it!
Yup, been there, done that lol. --Shirley
Awesome prepping for your family for the coming year. Hint for next year: for Potatoes O’Brien, start cutting potatoes with the French fry cutter. Then cross cut those into the dice. It’s a real time saver. Your family will eat healthy and hearty this next year. Good job.
I do it opposite. I cut them length wise then pop them on my fry cutter and boom, diced potatoes. I tried using my mandolin to cut the potatoes first but they came out too small for how I like them.
@@carynwood9158 I agree but O'Brien potatoes are bigger chunks than FF. I have bought then that size before and they aren't as good.
Thank you Sarah for teaching me how Blanch Potatos and Freeze them.
I've never heard nor had O'Brian potatoes. Sure wish you shared your recipe as well.
(I like Sarah in this video).
I would love to see you prepare the potatoes after thawing. That is so helpful to me. Please do that with your frozen, dehydrated, or canned foods. I love those shows. I always add these videos to my play list.
Ouh now you can make sweet potato fries, beet root stick, carrot sticks and apples fries. We even used ours for onions, heck of quick way of getting diced onions.
Great idea, use it for all kinds of veggies and apples. Nice.
Hanna Young, you are selling me on this machine!!
I love the apple fries idea!
And jicama and Daikon .radishfries!
I dehydrate rosemary. I use an old coffee grinder to powder rosemary. The powder will stick to the fries or wedges. And more kitchen gadgets!!!!
That french fry cutter! WHAT A TIME SAVER!
Y'all are my very favorite homesteaders ! God Bless !
Hello Mary..
How are you doing today?
I am ready to see how you process and store your sweet potatoes too.
I am looking forward to that too. I SO prefer sweet potatoes to the regular kind. I ESPECIALLY like sweet potato fries, and mashed sweet potatoes.
I agree, I’d like to see this too!
Oh! Love sweet potatoes fries. Glad you have a good crop! I got two big s. Potatoes and one small. But I got them!
I wouldn't follow anything she does for canning. She doesn't follow safe protocols at all. Her potatoes aren't peeled in the jars and they must be peeled for safety.
@@sixpinkoneblue thats ok, I'm a grown adult and and will choose for myself, and I didn't ask for your opinion. Have a wonderful day.
That's the word to use "blessed" thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for all your help!
My neighbor and myself planted 350 lb of potato today. We had 3 different kinds. I have about 70 lbs to plant tomorrow. I have a potato planter. It's about 100 years old. Works great. We hope to have enough for our families and friends for the winter. I hope you have a great crop this year. I enjoy your program. I'm a retired Farmer . I'm 70 years old but still like growing things. My wife and I can and freeze all
We have 4 freezer and they are all most full.
Your air fryer will be great for your fries. I just love how happy you always are. I have my 92 yr young father & his sister watching all your videos
I agree. Peeling potatoes is a time waster. Great frozen potato ideas! Now wish we had more potatoes!
For a large family that french fry potato cutter would be worth the money...Excellent for sharing this too....
Sarah, potatoes are not the only thing you can use that FF chopper for. Working in a restaurant I used it for peppers, onions, tomatoes and even carrot sticks. Cut most veggies in half size to fit and cut better. It will work great on hard
squash's too.
I've used that type of potato fry cutter, it was mounted on a wall and it made the lever much easier to cut potatoes.
Oh shoot. I just said the same thing!
Tomatoes! ?
Oh Sarah, I laughed so hard when you dabbed your eyes and said, " oh no, she's crying..."! It was so unexpected.
I always enjoy your videos and have learned so much from you and Kevin.
☺️ agreed
Meeee toooo 😂🤣
That was funny, but my favorite was when they tried to open those nuts, and even went out on the road waiting for cars to come by! Soooo funny!
I ended up putting a fan on me while chopping up onions for our salsa. Helped so much blowing the fumes away.
Agreed as well. Have learned so much
I’ve been cutting up, onion, carrots, green peppers, and blanch green beans. What a time saver for meals! Potatoes next!
All these years, I never knew you could freeze these!! Thank you!!❤❤xxoo
I haven't done this because I thought that the potatoes must be blanched, then plunged in an ice bath, drained, then frozen, like broccoli.
Great video as always! The fries at the store (and the restaurants) are flash fried before they’re flash frozen. Similar to how you blanch them, they’re fried for about 4 minutes then drained and frozen for packaging. They can be seasoned before freezing if you’re going to bake them after the first fry. This is how you get that great crispy fried outside without the taters soaking up the oil and becoming super greasy. I know you’re super busy and just want to get things done and into the freezer, I just thought you’d like to know, and maybe someone can use this tip. Have a blessed day! Hope your cold clears up soon. 💕😁
What a great tip! I never knew how you could cook fries without soaking up the oil and still be crisp. So basically, par-fry, freeze and then bake? --Shirley
Wayne Thomas- Harkless Kunkle yep. You technically only need to freeze if you want to preserve them. You can go straight from the draining to the baking if you are making them the same day.
@@annswarmfuzzies Thanks so much. I may end up doing a little of both ways.
Thanks for this tip.
Thank you for this tip, much appreciated 🌟
Sarah... at this point I'm surprised you ever get sick! What it must be to have 411k bff's and quasi aunties and unks praying for you and loving you all over the country!
Is that a powdered onion soup you mix them with before roasting?
I think this is my favorite video, you're cracking me up with your french fry slicer!
Thanks Sarah ! This will help me not let my potatoes go to eyes
It tickled me to see how excited you were about the french fry cutter! Y’all do a wonderful job teaching us ‘wannabes’ how it’s done! I’ve learned SO MUCH from you both! May God continue to bless your efforts!
Kitchen "gadgets" can be a problem if you don't have storage in your kitchen. A cheap plastic thing can be more trouble than it's worth. But if it's going to be a time-saver like Sarah's potato cutter, it's a God-send. She'll have that for decades and probably leave it to one of the girls. Quality is always a good thing in tools ...
I am a mother of two and grandmother of two so I hope this isn't weird but I think Sarah and Kevin are adorable! Her reaction to the French fry cutter was both precious and so Sarah! They are referred to as Sarah and Kevin as if we know them. So funny.
@@zak2u2 I always think very carefully before obtaining a gadget. Will I use it? Is it a 'one trick pony? Alton Brown says that the only uni-tasker in the kitchen is a fire extinguisher but, I actually use my egg separator and my tuna can juice remover, so just think before you purchase.
@@lauripine8894 Thank you for sharing ... smh
When you were using your french fry press for the first time and were so excited, I thought to myself, "Oh man...we could so be friends!" hahaha
So I decided to do my potatoes today. I got 2 bags of French fries and 3 of cubes. It was amazing. Didn’t take long to do. Thankyou.
My brother gifted me this french fry cutter for Christmas!!! So excited!!
Try your fry cutter attached to a wall so you are just pushing down on the guide. Goes super fast.
that's what we did when I worked in a restaurant. You can even do more than one potato at a time when you have that extra power.
Great idea! I love the idea of having it handy but not taking up counter space or storage.
Plus you can drop the cut fries directly into the cold water.
I was going to add to put the potato slicer on a much lower surface so you are relatively over it to utilize your strength. Those are fantastic!
Dehydrate thin sliced potatoes for au gratin and scalloped potatoes.
Do you use them in the recipe like you would fresh?
Lori Gilmartin I believe you need to put a little extra liquid with them when cooking for them to rehydrate.
@@shellyg5705 I think youre correct Shelly. Probably similar to how you would make a box of scalloped potatoes from the store. --Shirley
Making scalloped potatoes with ham pieces tomorrow!!! Love me some taters!!!
@@sandyoklahomatransient8557 Yummy!
Brill thanks for all those helpful tips about. Freezing potatoes. Great. Carol
My mouth watered at the thought of a creamy baked potato dish. I also have one where you stack layers of cooked potatoes, a creamy mushroom sauce and an onion and tomato mix, then bake with grated cheese on top
Sarah, you can also freeze mashed potatoes. With your family shrinking except for holidays, it would be a time saver for you and Kevin. Enjoy all your videos. I do watch some of them several times. God Bless you both.
I love your energy❣️🥰 When you asked about the gadgets I yelled YES WE DO!!! Scared the crud outta my hubby lmao 😂 I love you guys❣️thanks for all you do to help folks❣️
I think this is the third video I watched so far. You are an AMAZING teacher! God gave you an amazing gift! Thank you for sharing with us!
I love you. I will start this week coming and start with your potato recipes.
I just love the way that your family enjoys the homesteading lifestyle. My daughter and her family and I are looking for our perfect property to start our own new journey together. Thank You and your family for showing us how much you enjoy the hard work and payoff is so worth it. A happy family with morals.
Sarah: “Do I really need this kitchen gadget?” “YES I DO!”
I laughed so loud at this! I just love you Sarah 🤣
You husband is a lucky man you're a keeper thanks for sharing 🙂
You are blessed you taught me a lot God blessed you and your family ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣
Round onions are hot, and oval onions are sweet! My Grandma taught me this!
Hi Sarah and Kevin. I don't know if you have done this yet but any chance you can make a video of your pantry/ freezer/ food storage? I think many of us would like to drool over it. I bet it's impressive, especially at the end of the growing season. Love your videos! Thanks for sharing your life with us.
i dont think Sarah wants to show us their hole house where she has all her preserved staff, but maybe she would show us her freezer section, my oppinion is she has a cold house storage
Oooh yes please!
I was thinking the exact same thing.. With all the meat and veggies etc etc... I wouldn't have room in my deep freeze!
Kevin Rowbotham like most of us! Safer that way if you have folks trying to rob you too. Not many will look under a bed...
Not a good idea to advertise your pantry to the "world" especially in these crazy times. I would never ask them to do that.
I'm one person I portion the mixture in like two or three portions in parchment and foil and freeze.
I didn't know there was a way to freeze potatoes and get a decent texture. Thank you.
Will you do a pantry tour of all you put up? I’d love, love to see.use the air fryer for your French fries. Fabulous.
As far as I'm concerned, you can never have enough kitchen gadgets--they're my weakness! :) I'm anxious to try the O'Brian potatoes method of freezing--thanks so much!
Since we bought our homestead close to 2 yrs ago...I have bought kitchen gadgets over the time to make my time of making homemade items less time consuming...you have to have tools!
Men can justify the need for more tools, the same for kitchen gadgets. I love them too. I just have to make sure they are multitaskers sinceamy kitchen space is limited.
They are my weakness also. I occasionally think I might want to retire to a "tiny home" with a bedroom in the gooseneck of the trailer, bathroom next to that, and the whole rest of it would have to be kitchen. Cooking with my appliances and sewing, I don't want to give up.
I don't care for canned potatoes, so I will definitely try freezing them. Thanks for sharing ❣
Another use for the French fry cutter! Dicing onions and peppers!! Love the videos!
Great projects! When I was a child we had a family friend named Blanche so I thought for some time that she was fixing our food. 🤣
You have me exhausted🤣🤣
Haha right?!
So true, you can get tired watching huh? lol. Its a bit like the old saying "a stitch in time saves nine." The more she (we) prep our food, the less work it is later. Now, if I can just find the initial burst of energy to do that lol.
@@harkless8231 hmmmm I wonder if there's an app for that🤣🤣🤣🤣( extra burst of energy)
@@saphirediamondspearlzsdpje3127 Oh if you ever find one for that youll be a billionaire! lol
You can never have too many kitchen gadgets ... matter if fact I like tgat gadget so much I'm gonna get me one 😁
O'Brian potatoes are great in breakfast tacos with eggs, sausage, or bacon. I will have to try freezing our potatoes. Thanks for the how to.
I have attachments on my kitchen Aid that do much of that. You make my hands hurt with all the chopping.. but that French fry cutter.. I can see where that would be wonderful to keep from getting flabby arms and having perfect fries!
We make potatoes O'Brien with Sauerkraut and brats. Also, when I have potatoes like that, I like to bake them, grate them, then toss them on the griddle out side, and make hash browns, flash freeze them and then we have hash browns anytime we want them. Keep up the good work.... You just make hard work look fun!
I have harvested 200lbs of tomatoes already. Still have that many left to harvest yet. Have made spaghetti, BBQ, and regular sauce so far. Potatoes only got 2 bushel. Not enough to store just for fresh. My bird house squash are doing awesome. Didn't think they were doing anything. Some of them are 3 foot long.
Brian Eisenga yowsers!!
Great tips on how to preserve potatoes for future use. Thanks.
Oh My Goodness .. You Make Things So Very Easy!!! Thank You!!!
Wore me out watching you😆y’all have had a great harvest this year ! Love it. Be blessed and favored ❤️🙏🏽💕
Love that French fry cutter! I want one.
I just had to stop what I was doing and let you know.... I was depressed bc I wasn't getting my quilt done as fast as I wanted to... It's for a birthday in just a couple weeks. I have cancer and it metastasized to my right upper arm bone ( humerous) as well as my liver. So being right handed, it hurts when I use it too much. And yet, if I stay busy and productive, I feel much better emotionally. So it's a balancing act to not do too much and yet keep productive. Anyway today was a difficult day, even having to call my prayer partner sister to pray with me... But I went in the other room while your canning/ freezer challenge video was playing ( from Aug 2021) and the tv just kept going to this video. Listening while I was sewing... You made me smile then laugh. Thank you so very much!!!
You are a big kid with a new toy...love it
I've recently found your channel and am loving watching all the different ways you're preserving & freezing all your food. Have you ever considered showing your canning storage panty and/or how many freezers you maintain? My husband is insisting that you have an entire house to store the food...lol. Keep on filming, it's excellent!
Hi Sarah! Glad to see you’re doing well. Love O’Brian potatoes! I love to watch you and Kevin in your videos. Nice to see all your hard work pay off. Hope all are well. Stay safe and be well. God bless.😊
awesome french fry cutter. we LOVE sweet potato fries!
Thank you for the tutorial. Yes we need extra kitchen gadgets.
Thank you, thank you for this video! Why have I never thought of doing This? Potato crop saved!
Whenever I cut onions, I say "I shouldn't get so attached, but your just so sweet". My kids all groan and tell me that I say it every time. I can't help myself. Thank you for sharing. Get well soon. Xxoo
Countrymouse's Farmhouse I would bet money that Sarah's little cry over the potatoes is a family joke.
Love canned potatoes. Thanks for the video. God Bless, stay safe
So happy to have seen this video. I have store bought potatoes growing side chutes. Too old. I did not use them fast enough. This video will save me a lot of money by freezing my potatoes. Your instructions are the best. Thank you for sharing. Merci, gracias.
Whenever you do a canning video and I can see your clock on the stove I am always awed by your stamina AND think, “she still has to make supper!” So fun to watch.
Kimberly McDonagh I remember one recent video when Sarah didn't get dinner started until 8 pm because she had such a long day working. She gets more done in a day than I get done in a month. Kevin too.
You had a lot of fun making this video! I smiled and laughed many times! Good job! I freeze everything on cookie sheets first and then dump in big bags (turkey size)...I just take out of the bag what I want. I would sooner have the big bags than the smaller ones that always seem to get lost in the freezer. Just personal preference. Take care!
Thank u for showing how to freeze potatoes.
Great idea in storing potatoe ,specially during winter .
I am not too far from you here in Kansas, and agree with you about trying to store potatoes from our garden. Doesn't work. I canned a few but haven't frozen any . I will give it a try as soon as I'm finished with pears. Pear 🍐 tree went crazy this year!
All of our blossoms froze with 2 late freezes this spring. 😕
I would buy a 100 lb. bag of potatoes, and put them in layers with dirt on top of each layer into homemade box with a lid. This was kept an old fashioned garage in the back away from a lot of light. They would last the way all winter.
I would like to see where you store everything and how much you have done so far.
Just my persomal opiniom but I think this is a very inappropriate request. An invasion of their privacy and a serious security risk as times become more uncertain daily.
JoAnn Mahaffey sorry if you think so, but apparently I am not the only who would like to see also. It is not like I know where they live. And if they were concerned about privacy and security then they shouldn’t have a TH-cam channel. I myself enjoy watching there channel.
@@roseeckstein6534 I think Jo Ann has a valued point... yes, they have a TH-cam channel but they don't show everything, and as crazy as the times and people have gotten, I wouldn't show you.. plus it's super easy to find ppl's homes. There is no privacy any more.
How do you keep the onions & peppers from going mushy in the freezer?
@@joannmahaffey1068 showing someone's freezer and pantry contents is hardly a security risk. Lol. Prepper TH-camrs do it all the time.
Man, I have too much kitchen stuff already but that French fry cutter is sweet! I want one!
🙏🏻 prayers & blessing for you.
It makes me so happy to see you saving seeds and telling us about it. I save all of my seeds because I'd rather have too many than not enough.
I like this because 10 lb bags are a good price and we never eat them all.
This video was perfect.
Very clear and thorough.
Thank you.
thanks for sharing!
I got to see it as the second person to start watching!!! ive taken notes on all the things you do.. next fall I will have my home stead started. and all your videos are amazing and so are you, Kevin and your entire family!! !!!
😂🤣 onions! Baggie tip: put your baggie in the cold water with one corner of your bag open until the water is almost to the top. (Don’t get the water in the bag). It will push out the excess air!
Thats brilliant actually. Knowing my luck I would sink the bag and get water inside. Shirley
Or suck the air out with a straw. Nancy from Maui🌴🌴
@@John-yl1zn Oh okay, another brilliant idea! Shirley
I bought a dicing attachment for my KitchenAid. The time it saved outweighed the cost 👍👍👍
Thank you for great money saving techniques prices are going up even in the produce stores 👍
Please share your recipe for "cheesy creamy potatoes"!
Yes, pl ease ! The recipe.
Yes, please. My sweet wife has had me searching for your recipe for them ever since you mentioned them.
Yes please??
I would like to see the recipe too.
Would absolutely love it thank you sharing the recipe
When flash freezing, you can put the items in several single layers at a time. Just separate each layer with parchment paper.
Thanks.wonderful Idea of having enough food.
I love your enthusiasm for that fry cutter
Cheffy tip for taking the tears out of onions. (I used to have to prep up to 20 pounds of onions per day.) Before starting on the other ingredients, prep the onions 1 by 1 like this:
Cut off the root end, then cut off the green end (yes, the order can matter), cut in half or quarter, pull off the outermost paper/layer, and submerge in a big bowl of ice water. Immediately get the scraps of each onion out of the way into a bag/can so they aren't sitting on your board.
If your knife starts to get sticky or covered in juice, immediately rinse or wipe with cold water. Wipe the board with a cold water cloth as needed also. Using a very sharp, thin knife is better than a thick, dull one. You want to slice cleanly without scrunching a lot of the flesh, because scrunch = vapor in air.
Leave the onion halves sitting in the ice water while you do whatever other prep you need, then come back for the onions. In that few minutes, most of the nasty vapory juice that usually leaks out into the air and burns your eyes will now be in the water instead. 99% reduction in cry factor.
As a young man I worked in a Subway sandwich shop & I can attest to the ice water method. We didn't quarter ours first but just threw them in the water whole. Of course, we had nearly infinite supply of ice, so that makes a difference...
I diced up 18 gallon bags of our Texas 1015 onions...used my food processor..flash freezed and put into gallon freezer bags...
Good suggestions!!
Ooo soak the onions! I've always just kept my knife wet which works but this would be quicker! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! I can't tell you how bad I've cried cutting onions, I've considered wearing safety googles!
Sarah, Do you use Tattler lids? and if so, will you do a video on them?😊
I love it when you can or freeze food! Oh and forage in the woods...but that's another video, lol
For my O'Brien potatoes, I cut into slices and then put the slices thru the French fry press for perfect 1/2 inch cubes.
Why don’t you lay the bags of potatoes flat in freezer may keep them less clomped
Faster to thaw and easier to stack in the freezer. When frozen, we prop them up on their sides so they stand up tall.
So true Miss Rita! I freeze everything flat, even hamburger or other ground meat. Not only does it save freezer space but it thaws way faster.
@@guardianminifarm8005 Good idea!
Thanks, hope it helps!
I don’t see that French fry cutter in your amazon store.
It’s there now. 😊
@@LivingTraditionsHomestead The one in your store has a different handle than the one in your video.
Hello from my homestead in northwest Florida! These are the wonderful videos I enjoy so much and why I originally subscribed to your channel many years ago!
I always learn something new from your videosl Thanks Becky!