Potatoes - A thread about potatoes

[Town Drunk]

I love potatoes but hate peeling them. The potato ricer was a game changer for me.

Last few years I’ll only buy the gold/yellow variety because they’re so dang naturally creamy.


Never been crazy about curly fries or waffle fries for some reason. In the UK they sell potato waffles that are like regular waffles but made of potatoes. Those are slightly less off-putting to me but not by much.

Salted waffle fries dipped in sour cream. You're welcome.

 

[Triple Flutz]

Duck fat fried.

 

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thread tax: i like using frozen shredded potatoes as a crust for quiche. spread them out in a glass or ceramic dish, press them into place, and bake until golden. let it cool while you prep veggies and eggs, then bake it all together.

 

[Kurt Eichenwald]

A suggestion for those who may want some fairly lazy fries that are better than 5 guys.
Put some flour and seasoning in a pot with a tight lid.
Peal and slice some potatoes.
Throw them into the flour and shake, then pick them back out and gently shake off the excess dust.
Put them in the fryer and stir them a couple times for the 1st 30 seconds of cooking.
You now have less floppy fries.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

What’s the most unusual way you like to eat your tatties?

It’s Chanukah right now and latkes with sour cream and applesauce are hard to beat. I require a lot more of those toppings than seems reasonable. I used to make my own but life’s too short to be putting shredded potato in a dishcloth and squeezing all the water out. So now I buy frozen Kinneret or Golden brand and we eat them year-round.

I was surprised to find that I quite like the Brits’ way of using baked beans as a baked potato topping. Same thing with cottage cheese.

There’s a white trash cheesy potato casserole with cornflakes on top that my friend’s mom made as kids and ngl, it was pretty bomb. You can sub mushroom soup for cream of chicken and it’s just as good.

 

[Triple Flutz]

What’s the most unusual way you like to eat your tatties?

Aligot. I purposefully withdraw it from the rotation so it's special and also because it's incredibly unhealthy. Potato pavé and fondant are also methods that aren't super usual but that might be lesser known.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

Aligot. I purposefully withdraw it from the rotation so it's special and also because it's incredibly unhealthy. Potato pavé and fondant are also methods that aren't super unusual but that might be lesser known.

Oh I meant unusual as in sounds nasty. I should have been more clear.

Restaurant mashed potatoes are always scary because you know there’s at least one stick of butter per serving in there. They may as well be aligot (though they’re nowhere near as good).

 

[AnOminous]

Why do some vile evil people hate little black squash balls?

I love looking at Nick being this ontologically assmad.

Look at how utterly angry he is, while being completely impotent to do anything about it. Damn Nick, you're PISSED.

But you can't DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT because you are a WEAK FAGGOT!

LMAO!

Look how MAD he is, while being incapable of doing anything about it!

Waat a weak faggot!

 

[Billy Bob Dick]

fun fact: many brands of vodka are based on potats

Potatoe waffles are awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABIZbgkSEfI

the fuck is this shit

 

[Triple Flutz]

Oh I meant unusual as in sounds nasty. I should have been more clear.

Restaurant mashed potatoes are always scary because you know there’s at least one stick of butter per serving in there. They may as well be aligot (though they’re nowhere near as good).

lmao in retrospect, reading your initial post, I definitely should have understood the context, apologies for that.
I don't eat candy anymore, but I had a phase with potato-based candy. Colcannon is also awesome with the allium component, whether it be onion or leek, cooked in milk. One might not think to pair cabbage and potatoes together, let alone cook aromatics in milk, but it really does work.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

Colcannon is also awesome

Agreed. Cabbage is up there with potatoes in the cheap, great, versatile food stakes. Potatoes being much more filling and nutritious, obvs. Leeks are also very underrated, at least in America. I love a good potato and leek quiche.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I've been eating sunchokes for little over two years now. They're tasty but not on par with russets. Purple potatoes are fun to cook with and taste better than taro but harder to find however purple potatoes are healthier for you.

 

[Crypto Six Gorillionaire]

I've been eating sunchokes for little over two years now. They're tasty but not on par with russets. Purple potatoes are fun to cook with and taste better than taro but harder to find however purple potatoes are healthier for you.

Also known as Jerusalem artechokes

Also a storm shredded my winter potatoes and I had to scrap them, press F

 

[AnOminous]

I've been eating sunchokes for little over two years now. They're tasty but not on par with russets. Purple potatoes are fun to cook with and taste better than taro but harder to find however purple potatoes are healthier for you.

There are these things called "aranitas," which I'm told means "little spiders," deep fried little balls of shredded plantain. You could probably make things like that out of any of those Third World weird root vegetables.

According to USPS, you can mail potatoes.

https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/

Do you know who hates potatoes? Lolcows. This is a lolcow who got mailed a potato, then got into a knife fight with it and lost, despite the potato being unarmed. His name is Phil.

He is retarded.

Agreed. Cabbage is up there with potatoes in the cheap, great, versatile food stakes. Potatoes being much more filling and nutritious, obvs. Leeks are also very underrated, at least in America. I love a good potato and leek quiche.

It seems to be a thing in haute cuisine, French being the obvious example, that it's almost always something that started out as peasant food.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Also known as Jerusalem artechokes

Also a storm shredded my winter potatoes and I had to scrap them, press F

They're actually a sunflower from North America. They're a bitch to store so it's best to dig them up and cook them as long as possible Do not store them in your fridge. I like to fry them into thin crisps as it's a bit like a sweeter potato that's crisper. Some people will get a nice nutty taste to it. You can eat the tubers raw unlike potatoes but I wouldn't recommend doing so around company. I would also recommend growing them in a greenhouse if you're in a northern country.

 

[Chongqing]

I love potatoes but hate peeling them. The potato ricer was a game changer for me.

Instead of peeling them, you should cut a line around them, like giving each potato an equator. Then boil them as normal and just pick the skin off when it's done. It's super easy and works really well.

Edit to add: https://wgnradio.com/news/ohio-mans-potato-peeling-method-goes-viral/

 

[Aunt Carol]

I've been eating sunchokes for little over two years now. They're tasty but not on par with russets.

I enjoy pretty much any root vegetable, but sunchokes pay me back with an astonishing amount of gas. I thought it was just my lot in life, but it turns out sunchokes are infamous for it.

There’s a white trash cheesy potato casserole with cornflakes on top that my friend’s mom made as kids and ngl, it was pretty bomb.

I wonder if cornflakes used to have less sugar in them. I was doing a slow tour of all the standard hotdish toppings, just to become more cultured, and when i tried cornflakes they were just too darn sweet (and prone to burning, probably due to not being fatty enough.)


The absolute best use of potatoes is lefse, but that Mrs. Olson's store-bought lefse is atrocious. For good lefse you have to acquire the special stick, the special griddle, a person of Scandinavian heritage and, of course, butter.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I enjoy pretty much any root vegetable, but sunchokes pay me back with an astonishing amount of gas. I thought it was just my lot in life, but it turns out sunchokes are infamous for it.

That's why I mentioned that you need to cook it as long as possible. It helps to get rid of that. Frying is best as you'll basically super heat them.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

Instead of peeling them, you should cut a line around them, like giving each potato an equator. Then boil them as normal and just pick the skin off when it's done. It's super easy and works really well.

Edit to add: https://wgnradio.com/news/ohio-mans-potato-peeling-method-goes-viral/

I find the potato ricer better because the holes purée the potato nice and easy as well. Some lady went viral on TikTok recently for pushing boiled potatoes through baking rack grates to peel them.

 

[Aunt Carol]

That's why I mentioned that you need to cook it as long as possible. It helps to get rid of that. Frying is best as you'll basically super heat them.

True, but you framed it as a storage issue, not a horrendous farting issue. I gotta have things like that spelled out.

Potato tax: campfire potatoes sliced with onion and butter and wrapped up as a tin foil dinner. Shoved into the coals with a stick, and then enjoyed later as a big bolus of carbohydrates after a day of schlepping and digging and tying ropes to things. Well-won potatoes.