Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I ordered this just as the Coronavirus craziness was heating up. It came as advertised, as have several other items I've bought from Augason Farms. I have tried these 3 times. First time was just rehydrating them per instructions (pour boiling water over them, let sit for 15-30 minutes, then cook as desired). They are about potato chip thickness when dry. Rehydrated, they get to about tortilla chip thickness. First time I used them I just cooked them in a cast iron skillet with onions and sauerkraut. But when I looked at them, my thought was these would be good for potatoes au gratin or scalloped potatoes. So my 2nd try was potatoes au gratin, Prepper style. By that I used the rehydrated potatoes, enough to fill a 9" cake pan about 1/3 of the way deep (it's about 1.5" deep), sauteed some diced onion in butter (ok, those might not be "Prepper" but what I had), then added about 3 oz of grated Parmesan, the kind that doesn't need refrigeration, and a 5 oz can of condensed milk. I poured that over the potatoes, added a scoop of the water that I had used to rehydrate them, and baked it at 350 F. for about 40 minutes. For the third try, I had some hydrated potatoes left over from the au gratin, so I sliced them and used them for has browns the next morning. None of these was a culinary masterpiece. But all were ok, more than edible. With practice (or a better cook than me), they should definitely be a nice change up from rice or pasta. A couple things I'm not thrilled about, so not a 5 star review, 1) they are peeled. I know some people insist on that, but a lot of the nutrients in potatoes are in the skin, and in a long term emergency, getting all the micro-nutrients we can will be important, so if they could do unpeeled version without sacrificing much in the way of shelf life, that would be an improvement. 2) they are too thin to work well in stews or some other dishes, if they could be a bit thicker, again assuming that can be done with out sacrificing stability, I would prefer that. But bottom line, I'll be ordering some more.