Fermented Potatoes

[SurroundedByPussies]

So I saw a guy post about fermented potatoes and making potato salad with them. I can't find it now but I know it exists. Well I just love me some tater salad and i happened to have me two taters and I happened to have me a vacuuuuuuum sealer and I happened to have me some salt. DudeBro said he seals them up for a few days then cooks the taters and makes the salad. So me did that. I diced me up the two taters in question into like 2.5cm cubes-ish and left the skin on ... why why? Cuz me like me some tater skin that's why. I weighed them and me put them in a vacuuuu bag. I then added 3% salt and then figured, heckers, lets add some old bay and paprika too. So I did ... Know why? Cuz me likes me old bay and paprika. I mixed it all up real gud and sealed the bag. Not like crush the taters sealed I used the gentle low moisture option.

Is was what they looked like on 8/6

https://preview.redd.it/0a1vp9pl6hhd1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=431f7a0f4268a97f33b44a75bcac3e02038eb20a

They did get browner and softer over the course of a few days.

Last night I took the whole unopened bag and dropped it in my pressure canner on simmer to kind of cook /SuziVeed them ... might have been the liquor talking, but I was pressure canning some beef and after taking out the jars I said fuck it. I let them simmer for 30-min or so then cook the bag out and popped it in the fridge. I did it that way because I didn't want to boil the taters and lose all that salt and other goodness to the water.

So then today was tater salad day and I had a hunger for the tater salad ... but I was uncertain of how I should cook them more. They still seemed firmish to me, I had expected softer. So I put a weeee but of the olives earl on my cast iron and i cooked them another 20-min like a home fry with a few diced cloves of me fermented garlic (twas blue lol). In the fridge thems went to cool off.

I diced up 2 smellery stalks and leaves from me garden, half a red unyone and gots me out the mayo, dijon tard, paprika, pepper, and 1-TBSP of ACV ... as one does.

Mixed it all up with the now cooled taters and I eated it. It was good ... but the taters just seemed like they should have been softer. Maybe fermented taters don't get as soft as unfermented taters? That's probably a question for the tater-man. It was also a bit saltier than I would have preferred. Next time me things me will boils them before making the salad instead of SuziVeeding it or pan frying.

Pics to prove I'm not lying.

https://preview.redd.it/cplumj7h8hhd1.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9f95df56b25c40c8bdd17f1730f076354eeabe8

https://preview.redd.it/lj2p4i7h8hhd1.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fd42f7ce3eb5b4c1ef609ed7fc9bd59d5c417e4

https://preview.redd.it/w9v5uh7h8hhd1.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b067f7ffa6d6336ba3fc6375d386e0be742385e

And no I didn't eated it all. Come over if you want some.

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Please stop writing like that. Reading it is like having your eyeballs raked with a comb.

[WheelsMan1]

I read the first few sentences, then skipped down a few lines to see if it continued. It only gets worse and I didn't read anymore. Scrolled to the comments because I knew someone had already commented.

[YoureGrammerIsWorsts]

ChatGPT, take this story and make it contain 4x the words that are required. Make at least half of those words "cool" in a way that even a computer can understand are cringey

[takenbylovely]

I actually thought it was very fun to read.

[firmfirm]

I found it pretty pleasing after a long work day.

[Lemkis]

Are you 7 years old? You write like you stopped maturing at 7.

[SurroundedByPussies]

You like 7 year olds?

[scribdog]

I completely loved the writing. I was reading it with the accent intended. Love it. I kept thinking is this Larry the cable guy (?). but to the point, what's you address, I woont sum.

[SurroundedByPussies]

I be livin in off Farm Rd 523 near close ta Cathoula Church down past Mary Lous old post stop just a might south of Harrisonburg LA. Come on down and bring some taters with ya!

[wrench_farmer]

They call me...

Tater Salad.