5 hours ago, Smithy said:I went out to the garage just now (-10F) and loosened a few potatoes for cooking today. At this point they're so frozen that they're comical:
when they clack against each other, they sound exactly like billiard balls!
Following up on this, I'll note that when the potatoes thawed they became very spongy and released a lot of moisture. The photo below is of the spuds, cut up to be boiled for a potato salad, with the dark bits cut away. I do not recommend the "freeze in the subzero garage" method of preservation although the potatoes still seem to be edible. I'll report on the resulting potato salad elsewhere.
Edited to add: the resulting potato salad is good, but I think mainly because of the dressing. I think the potatoes have lost more of their flavor at this point. Still, as a vessel for a good salad dressing they aren't bad!
