The professionals use a potato ricer. Very fast, no lumps, and no risk of accidently making a glue, but you have to buy a potato rice, and change is scary.
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Klear@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhat would you recommend for mashing ass-potatoes?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know I wouldn’t recommend one of those electric hand mixers, like the one that just has a tiny blade it spins fast (the ones that spin two “interlocking” things might do decently). The potatoes are too thick and the blades just end up pushing the potatoes away and spinning uselessly. I’d take the one pictured over that kind.
And tbh, I like that style because you can still get good smooth mashed potatoes and the masher is easier to clean vs the grid style ones. Though for either of them, the trick is to dip it into the dish water and shake it around (clear out fragile stuff first obviously).
Klear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
(the ones that spin two “interlocking” things might do decently)
Can confirm, they do.
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Have you heard about our Lord and Savior the poop knife?
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hand mixer, like a true redneck
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For ass potatoes you need a ricer.
Wogi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kinda depends how you like your potatoes. I generally like them a little lumpy, but I think the twelve or so of us in the lumpy crew nationwide lose that fight every Thanksgiving.
But! The ineffective ass potato masher does a real good job of breaking up ground meat in to super tiny bits in the pan for stuff like Taco meat.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I use a perforated masher. It’s like the middle ground between this and a ricer.
Lennny@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ineffective potato kasher is an amazing taco meat maker. And sometimes you want lumpy potatoes, like you said. I prefer smooth but something like bangers and mash? It just makes it feel more a substantial if there’s lumps.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m in the lumpy potato crew! Some texture makes them so much nicer. Also, don’t add so much milk: I want to taste potatoes
…… of course I also tend to leave the skins in, plus there may be garlic or caramelized onions
Wogi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Head of garlic in to 2 sticks of butter on the stove, in to the potatoes when they’re ready. Skins and all.
Nommmmmm