1 review for Trader Joe’s Sweet Potato Tots Reviews
Rated 2 out of 5
Antoinette –
From What’s Good at Trader Joe’s 2012
“It’s not the taste that doesn’t work. They’re pretty legitimate sweet potato mini-nuggets. No real problem there. It’s more the texture. You know how a tater tot is supposed to be – crispy on the outside, kinda soft/kinda firm in the middle, and a little greasy too? Indeed, TJ’s makes some freakin’ excellent ones that are perfect right from the oven. These…are more like baked mush. Anything purporting to be a tater tot cannot simply be a dollop of potato mush, with the outside being slightly less mushy mush. Doesn’t work. And that was even after baking them for a little beyond the 35-40 minutes the instructions give for a crunchy tater barrel. I think to get anything resembling a crispiness or a crunchiness we would have had to flat-out blacken these suckers.
That’s part of the sweet potato curse. Kinda like salty/chocolate combos, or stuff made with whole grain, or (for my taste) wheat beers, there’s a balance that has to be struck. They can be absolutely great, but if not done well, it doesn’t work”
Antoinette –
From What’s Good at Trader Joe’s 2012
“It’s not the taste that doesn’t work. They’re pretty legitimate sweet potato mini-nuggets. No real problem there. It’s more the texture. You know how a tater tot is supposed to be – crispy on the outside, kinda soft/kinda firm in the middle, and a little greasy too? Indeed, TJ’s makes some freakin’ excellent ones that are perfect right from the oven. These…are more like baked mush. Anything purporting to be a tater tot cannot simply be a dollop of potato mush, with the outside being slightly less mushy mush. Doesn’t work. And that was even after baking them for a little beyond the 35-40 minutes the instructions give for a crunchy tater barrel. I think to get anything resembling a crispiness or a crunchiness we would have had to flat-out blacken these suckers.
That’s part of the sweet potato curse. Kinda like salty/chocolate combos, or stuff made with whole grain, or (for my taste) wheat beers, there’s a balance that has to be struck. They can be absolutely great, but if not done well, it doesn’t work”