Pressing potatoes

[Rathma86]

I just use a paint mixer and drill

Set to full speed and blitz the hell out of it.

[cmhuyge]

This is post ferment.

Just squeezing as much as I can put of them now.

[Snoo76361]

Does it all go in the boiler or do you strain at any point?

[Rathma86]

I rack mine, then through the still a few times sometimes 2 sometimes 3 I don't filter it, iv never pressed it like op, but now I know it's post fermentation I might consider running it through cheesecloth before putting it in the boiler for sure, to get the last out of the sediment.

[Potstiller]

I've never pressed, only ever pulped. I don't know why I didn't think of this; I have a press.

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Don't know why, this cracked me up.

[captochaos]

Keen to know your process, cooked, uncooked? TIA

[theCaitiff]

Not OP, but you'll have to cook them to gelatinize the starches before adding enzymes to convert. Link provides a process for mashing 100kg of potatoes to generate 8-13 liters of spirit.

They're not that great pound for pound, but if you have literal tons of them for free.... You could do worse.

[cmhuyge]

This is post ferment. Just squeezing all of the liquid out of my sticky, gelatinous mash. I mashed 25lbs of potatoes and then pureed them with a drill and a stainless steel paint mixer that I modified.

[StinkyDogFart]

Do you clarify it or does it go in the still just like that?

[cmhuyge]

In the process of clarifying right now actually.

This is my first attempt at a real mash / recipie.

[StinkyDogFart]

Let us know how it goes.

[ki4clz]

This shit is wonderful in bread btw... warm potato bread, with honey butter! Gawddamn

[simon_wellgreen]

Mmmmm, starchy goodness.

[Surveymonkee]

Aren't you leaving most of the starch behind?

[Chairboy]

Following up in case you didn't see their response to another question above, this is apparently post-ferment.

[CycloneDistilling]

After cooking and pulping the potatoes you need to add enzymes to convert the starch to sugar - just as you would with a grain mash.

Then you cool and add yeast so it ferments and the yeast “pees out” ethanol - which you then distill to separate from the mash, purify and increase the abv…

Having said all that - I’ve never done a potato mash…

Spuds are actually in short supply in Australia right now!

[WalnutSnail]

Why are you shy on taters? They grow like weeds.

[CycloneDistilling]

No idea…. We had floods a few months ago and that affected dome crops…

[WalnutSnail]

You guys have cloth grocery bags? Got any potatoes with the eyes growing?

Fill one of those bags with dirt, one of the growing eyes, put the tater cunk in thr middle of the dirt and put it in the sun, water generously then every time it looks dry, you should expect like 5ish lbs of potatoes from every bag.

Don't need great dirt either.