# Poached potatoes - would like to use less than 1 pound **URL:** \ **Category:** Anova Precision® Cooker\ **Tags:** vegetarian\ **Created:** [August 28, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-potatoes-would-like-to-use-less-than-1-pound/16384 "2018-08-28T18:49:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vin64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/91b2a8/32.png) [@Vin64](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Vin64)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-potatoes-would-like-to-use-less-than-1-pound/16384/1 "2018-08-28T18:49:42Z")
I’d like to make this recipe but use less than amount of potatoes called for. This recipe calls for 1 pound of potatoes to be cooked at 190F / 87.3C for 1 hour. > **[Sous Vide Butter-Poached Potatoes](https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/recipe/sous-vide-butter-poached-potatoes)** > > Want to know the secret to those melt-in-your-mouth buttery potatoes that restaurants serve? It’s butter poaching. Master this technique at home with the Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker and you’ll have perfectly cooked potatoes in an hour. This... Question: if I decide to use a lesser amount of potatoes, will I have to adjust the time / temperature? Thank you, Vin ---
**Author:** ![john.jcb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/john.jcb/32/7269_2.png) [@john.jcb](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/john.jcb)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-potatoes-would-like-to-use-less-than-1-pound/16384/2 "2018-08-28T19:04:41Z")
Keep them in a single layer in the vacuum bag and no adjustments are necessary. Also, try and use potatoes that are about the same size as really big ones will take longer than small ones. If you look at the picture they are all roughly the same size.