Canning Potatoes - The French Fry Cut

[Music] okay so today i plan to can 10 pounds of french fries and i recently bought this little gadget here i didn't want a plastic one and i didn't want to spend 100 over a hundred dollars for a commercial grade but this seems to be uh fairly good it had two different sizes for cutting the fries and we like the small ones and so i am going to attempt to do um seven quarts which is what the counter will take of french fried potatoes so here we go okay so i have washed and peeled 10 pounds of potatoes and this little gadget does vacuum walk up to the counter i don't know if they'll handle the larger potatoes but we'll start with the smaller ones and let the fries fall back into the sink of water there we go so i've got 10 pounds here and i believe that that will do the uh seven quarts see that one was a little bit too big okay so i'll have to watch out for the ones that are a little bit large now these are new white potatoes and less starchy therefore should can better okay i'm going to grab a small cutting board and cut the ones that are just a little too large so okay i'll get back to you after these have all been okay so all my fries have been cut so now i'm preparing my canner and we want to put about three inches of water at the bottom of that and the other thing that you should do is always check to make sure that this little air hole here that you can see through it that there is no obstruction and mine is clear okay so i'm going to be pressure tanning french fried potatoes i've washed cut and rinsed these potatoes a couple of times just to remove the surface starch and i believe i should be able to fill seven quarts if not we'll get as close to it as possible so the canner is on the stove with hot water i've got also another pot of boiling water because i'm going to pressure can these rubber sorry i'm going to rock pack these but pour boiling water over top of them so anyway i'm going to fill up my jars now and one port should be suitable for a meal for my husband and myself and and washing removing the surface starch i believe should help them to pack a little bit better not to disintegrate i've never canned potatoes this small in the past i have done sliced potatoes and they were fine i've done chunks and they were fine the french fries are perhaps a little on the thin side so we'll see how these work out first attempt at doing french fry cut so they look good i'm hoping to have one extra so that we can have fries for dinner tonight but i have not had but if we don't we don't i was under the impression i should be able to get about eight quarts out of this and that may be close to correct on that one so this was roughly 10 pounds well roughly it was 10 pounds of potatoes no i'm not going to get that extra card so i'll just try to fill these up a little bit more maybe perhaps i don't really want to over stop them okay so yes there is enough leftover for dinner i could put a few more in this jar okay so now i want to put about a teaspoon of salt in each jar okay and here i have a pot of boiling water which i will ladle into each jar now and you want to leave about an inch head space [Applause] good i thought i had plenty of water it might have to boil a bit more let's see perhaps i'm fine [Music] okay then we want to get a chopstick is what i use to remove all the air remove some bubbles and perhaps even top up some more either water or fries in each jar [Music] looking good [Music] let's put a few more in that one there and a few more there i have a few extra so i'll just slice up a little bit more for dinner perfect okay now we'll take my vinegar and clean off each rim and my handy little magnetic lid lifter and ring yes i've never used one of those little measuring sticks to determine um if you're an inch from the top i usually go by the ring on the jar itself and and when you've been canning for a long time you pretty much get a good feel for it but if you do need a little measuring sticks they do have those things available so yes the seven quarts should fill up the canner and we process this at my altitude for 10 pounds pressure for 40 minutes now you have to double check what your altitude is to determine what pressure and how long but for me it is 10 pounds pressure for 40 minutes per quart it would be 35 minutes for pints but i don't think pints would be enough french fries i wouldn't want to have to use two jars if i don't need to okay so all done ready to go in the counter i'm going to add just a bit more water in there because it has been boiling away and we do have some leftover hot water here that and my vinegar yes that was the vinegar okay perfect so there we go [Applause] so now we wait for that to come up to or to vent for a full 10 minutes before we put the little weight on there and the weight should be a 10-pound weight one of the rings off okay so they've come out of the canner and everything looks fine i did have a can or malfunction after i had vented for 10 minutes it and i put the the weight on it would not go up to pressure at all so i waited oh a good 20 minutes for it to do it and then i gave up turned off the heat got the front got everything depressurized and took off the lid checked the seal the rubber seal checked the um the gauge the gauge whatever you call it make sure it was on good and tight checked everything and resealed it restarted it and this time it came up to pressure no problem so um from my point of view these potatoes cooked quite a bit longer than they should have but they look absolutely fine i was a little bit worried that they turned to mush but they have not and uh awesome we're done uh the next step of course is just to do it uh fry up and taste test and see if they hold together when i cook them that's it for now i hope you enjoy this video and if you liked it please subscribe and like and feel free to comment at any time thank you very much for watching

Channel: Her Homestead Skills

Views: 33,987

Keywords: Pressure Canning, Preserving, Dehydrating, Self Reliant, Pantry, Gardening, Homestead Skills, Sewing, Baking, Fermenting, Canning Potatoes, Canning French Fries

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Length: 16min 58sec (1018 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 25 2020