Mashed Potatoes!

[MTG#10]

So how do you guys like your mashed potatoes? Do you have to have gravy on them? If so what kind of gravy do you prefer with what meal?

Do you like the skins left in or do you peel your potatoes first? Do you add anything special to yours that make them stand out or just milk, butter, salt, and pepper? Do you make potato cakes out of your leftovers?

Tell me about it!

[sedated]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

A ricer gives the consistency some people like, without the gummy texture that a food mill can produce.

I’ve never had that problem, but I’m pretty careful with my mash.

Is there another use for a ricer than for mashed potatoes? The food mill is more expensive but has multiple uses, unlike the ricer.

[srvy]

I'm just pulling your chains im sure they work great. But I make due with bare essentials when I can. I cant stand drawers and cubbards filled up with 3-4 items that all basically perform the same task. Sorta like a minimalist.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by srvy

I'm just pulling your chains im sure they work great. But I make due with bare essentials when I can. I cant stand drawers and cubbards filled up with 3-4 items that all basically perform the same task. Sorta like a minimalist.

A mill is great for potatoes, applesauce, tomatoes... Can peel and mill all in one.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by srvy

I'm just pulling your chains im sure they work great. But I make due with bare essentials when I can. I cant stand drawers and cubbards filled up with 3-4 items that all basically perform the same task. Sorta like a minimalist.

The kitchen's like most places. You can get as specific as all get-out, or you can do just fine with the general tools. Alton Brown's big on getting rid of the one-use items and keeping the multi-taskers. I find that some one-use items make a big difference and some aren't worth the money and/or space.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

The kitchen's like most places. You can get as specific as all get-out, or you can do just fine with the general tools. Alton Brown's big on getting rid of the one-use items and keeping the multi-taskers. I find that some one-use items make a big difference and some aren't worth the money and/or space.

Alton Brown uses a food mill for his mashed potatoes.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/a...es-recipe.html

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by sedated

I’ve never had that problem, but I’m pretty careful with my mash.

Is there another use for a ricer than for mashed potatoes? The food mill is more expensive but has multiple uses, unlike the ricer.

This is a list of some other uses that I picked up from other places. I haven't tried them:

• Run your eggs through for egg salad.
• To make crispy hashbrowns, after you grate you raw potatoes, put them in your ricer and squeeze all of the moisture out.
• Press liver through to make chopped liver
• Make baby food
• Mash sweet potatoes for sweet potato pie, pumpkins for pumpkin pie, etc...
• Make gnocchi
• Run tomato wedges through it for pureed tomatoes.
• Press grapes with it
• Make spaetzle
• Draining water out of tuna cans
• Squeeze water out of spinach

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

This is a list of some other uses that I picked up from other places. I haven't tried them:

• Run your eggs through for egg salad.
• To make crispy hashbrowns, after you grate you raw potatoes, put them in your ricer and squeeze all of the moisture out.
• Press liver through to make chopped liver
• Make baby food
• Mash sweet potatoes for sweet potato pie, pumpkins for pumpkin pie, etc...
• Make gnocchi
• Run tomato wedges through it for pureed tomatoes.
• Press grapes with it
• Make spaetzle
• Draining water out of tuna cans
• Squeeze water out of spinach

Glad masturbation didn't make the list

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

Glad masturbation didn't make the list

That's what the food mill's for.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

That's what the food mill's for.