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    Default Potatoes vs tater tots price comparison

    From my grocery receipt last Friday

    10 pound Russett potatoes 1.49 or about 15 cents a pound

    Tater tots 1.79 ( two pounds) or about 90 cents a pound

    If only I could figure out how to make my own tater tots.
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    Here are some more homemade tater tot recipes. Not sure , but you might like one better then the others. They are more or less made as balls since the official Tater Tot is actually extruded with a machine. One recipe does form it in a cigar shape and then cut. Maybe that would make it more TT looking.

    Homemade Tater Tots | Macheesmo
    http://www.ajc.com/ajccars/content/ ... ries/2008/01/15/tatertotrecipes.html
    The Tater Tot Challenge - Making your own home made tater tots - Video Game Podcast and Geek Culture Blog | The Weekly Geek
    Homemade Potato Tots Tater Tots ) Recipe - Food.com - 79526
    Homemade Tater Tots Recipe ('cigar' version)
    Homemade Tater' Tots
    and a video of a more gourmet version:
    how2heroes ? Videos ? Tater Tots

    From Wikipedia:
    Tater Tots were first created in 1953 when Ore-Ida founders F. Nephi Grigg and Golden Grigg were trying to figure out what to do with left over slivers of cut up potatoes. They came up with the novel idea of chopping up the potato slivers, adding flour and seasoning, then pushing the mash through holes and slicing off pieces of what came out on the other side.
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    Or maybe these, which are baked rather than fried, Potato Puffs Recipe - Food.com - 184958

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