Pellet Smoker Funeral Potatoes

Man, I thought I had this one scheduled out for ya last Friday. Totally my fault. Here I was all excited to add another Scraps to the list and I didn’t get it queued up. Anyway, let’s get at it.

Never knew funeral potatoes was what I thought cheesy potatoes were my entire life. When figuring out my go-to recipe collaboration, I came across a lot of people calling them funeral potatoes. I like it, it’s unique – a bit morbid, but let’s go with it. And here we go.

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Recipe

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As always, I link y’all to my recipe up top, but tell you how I do, why I do below. Let’s get going for this quick and easy comfort food.

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The Prep Table

So I had this bag of Seasoned Diced Potatoes in the fridge for a little bit, and it was nearing it’s expiration. Every other day, I’d throw this into yet another Blackstone Breakfast Scramble (you may grow tired of those posts – but I enjoy it thoroughly). I thought I’d change it up for y’all. Let’s throw some cheesy potatoes on the smoker and grow this site’s resume a bit. Super quick and easy.

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The Process

We’re going to start by throwing some garlic and onion in a pan and getting that nice and fragrant. Once that’s good, we’re going to throw that entire package of potatoes in the pan and stir it up. I’d say this is optional, but I really wanted to soak up all that pan flavor.

Onion/Garlic is soft, mixed in those potatoes, time to transfer. Feel free to throw it all in a bowl, do the mix, and then to the quarter pan (like I did). I make this separate point, because I’m notorious for trying NOT to dirty un-necessary dishes. Could’ve just as easily done the mix inside of the half-pan. The mix is adding the sour cream, cream of chicken soup, and cheese. Told ya, this one’s easy.

We’re going to preheat the RecTeq for XTREME SMOKE (or Lo) (or 180F). This low temp really pushes the smoke and while we’re not completely cooking at this temp, I wanted to push as much smoke as I could knowing the pan preventing

Go ahead and throw some corn flakes – or Flakes of Corn generic brand – into a ziploc bag and crush up as much as you’d like. I didn’t go hard, but you do you. We’re going to throw this in for about 15min, then crank it up to 300F for an hour or so.

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The Result

We’re going to let this go until it looks like how we want it. I’ll tell you what I did, and why I’m going to cook it for a bit longer on my next go-round. 300F until it looks like it’s bubbling and ready.

So this is when I pulled it because I started to see the brown and edges bubbling. This was about 1hr into the cook and next time, I’m going to char the shit out of it. The potatoes were good, but could’ve been softer. Everything was hot, flavorful and delicious.. but could’ve been better. I’d say even the potato chunks were a bit too large, but now we’re just getting un-necessarily picky. Plan for a 1.5hr cook and keep an eye. When you try this, let me know how you did!

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The Recipe