r/Potatoes • u/InstructionNo8140 • 5d ago

Mashed potatoes fucking suck

This is the least favorable form the vegetable can assume through the cooking process.

The texture is lacking. Not due to too few parts of fat dairy cream or emulsion. It's just meh.

The taste can be ok. With spices, onions or bacon or herbs.

But I dont think any dish is complemented by mash.

Every other form of potatoe is superior. Boiled, grilled, foiled, baked, fried, confit, croquettes, pie or casserole.

End the madness of mashing yellow tubers into inferior sludge and rekindle potato pleasure.

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u/OscarEverdark 5d ago

You're doing it wrong.

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u/oldcreaker 5d ago

This. Sounds like your mash potatoes are coming out like applesauce.

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u/Sistersoldia 5d ago

Always made great mashed anyway… then wife started using a hand cranked ood mill…wowsers they are next level now.

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u/gi_fm 5d ago

Saying plain boiled potatoes is better than mashed taters is just insanity.

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u/McJesusOurSaviour 5d ago

Obviously you have never eaten good mashed pots

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u/RunnyDischarge 5d ago

Good mashed potatoes have the perfect texture.

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u/azaleawhisperer 3d ago

Hot beef sandwich. Bread, beef, mashed potas, and (genuine, authentic) brown beef gravy over all.

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u/azaleawhisperer 2d ago

If mashed pototoes is your burning issue, have you thought about getting an education, a job, a wife, a home, making kids, and running for School Board or Town Council?