/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14271378]

>mashed potatoes turned out shitty and runny again

[Anonymous No.14271385]

>>14271378
>Greentext and wojak/frog for shit that never happened.

[Anonymous No.14271400]

>>14271378
Add less water to your instant mash mix

[Anonymous No.14271401]

>>14271378
Pics or it didn't happen.

[Anonymous No.14271407]

>>14271378
Put some effort into your posts, ffs.

[Barron "Please Save Me" Trump(...) No.14271410]

runny?

wtf?

DAd fix this

[Anonymous No.14271413]

>>14271400
You savage.
I like you.

[Anonymous No.14271429]

literally how

[Anonymous No.14271551]

>>14271378
Did you drain the potatoes before mashing them

[Anonymous No.14271554]

>>14271551
He did not Pepe. He did not.

[Anonymous No.14271580]

Alright so leave them in the pot on the stove and let some of the water evaporate.
????
Am I missing something?

[Anonymous No.14271606]

>>14271580
NO DONT DO THAT!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.14271610]

>>14271580
Mashed potatoes aren't really worth the time and effort. But if you are going to make them, seriously roast them first, not completely like you would if you were going to eat them roasted, but enough to get most of the water out. Then mash them with a ricer. Mix in lots of salt and butter, more than you think should be legal. Boom.

[Anonymous No.14272626]

>>14271610
what effort? You leave the fuckers be in the pan, then drain them, add butter and milk, then mash them for 5 minutes. A caveman could do this. 99% of other potato recipes require more work than that.

[Anonymous No.14272637]

>>14271378
Stop using so much milk. Pour a little in and then stir and repeat until the consistency is right

[Anonymous No.14272778]

>>14271413
Faggot

[Anonymous No.14272792]

>>14271580
No, you're not wrong. >>14271378 listen to this guy. Next time, put in less liquid than what you think. Easier to add than to boil off.

[Anonymous No.14272797]

replace all the milk you use with butter
im not joking

[Anonymous No.14272818]

>>14272778
>calls me aa faggot for being amused by a objectively fumny comment

Is that what all the hot football players were calling you because after gym you always got hard in the shower?

Stop projecting.

[Anonymous No.14272838]

>>14271378
Stop dicing it up so fine before boiling the potatoes, just 1/4 them at most. You let too much water in

[Anonymous No.14272845]

Boil potatoes until water evaporates throw in salt pepper cheese and butter. Boom how hard is that you millennial retards

[Anonymous No.14272861]

>>14272845
>until it evaporates
>cheese

[Anonymous No.14272873]

>>14272861
Are you one of those yuropoors who cant afford to import cheese?

[Anonymous No.14272878]

>>14272873
are you one of those amerifats who puts cheese into everything? Have some class and put milk instead.

[Anonymous No.14272904]

>>14271378
>>mashed potatoes turned out shitty and runny again
Be careful you are starting with potatoes that are diced too small. Keep it even in size, but go larger in chunks than you did this time. Do not rapid boil, but kind of a barely simmering boil on medium once you get them hot enough. Lid on.
Check them with a fork and stop the moment you know they are done, so they don't get waterlogged overcooking.
You can use a strainer to drain them if you are paranoid about extra water or don't think you can hold such a big pot with a potholder, lid on. But, to keep them as hot as possible, I drain them from the pot, just tipping out the water over the sink, holding the lid on and slightly offset, and I return the potatoes in the pot right back to the same hot burner, where the remaining water and steam kind of nearly instantly finishes evaporating, in about a minute (or so?).
Meanwhile drop in some pats of butter to get softened and melty too. I might put the lid on if I need to wait another minute before mashing.
Many people heat their milk and butter and add it hot to their mashed potatoes. I don't. I use half n half or cream, and it's cold from fridge. I'm going to use whatever dairy I have on hand for my coffee that week and it's never skim! Forget skim, it's basically water. Get the masher out, give it a couple splashes of milk to get started, then mash all over, stir once or twice and eyeball if you want more dairy, splash again. That's how it goes. You don't overmix, and you don't know how much you'll end up using til you eyeball it.
For big family meals, ie holidays, I'll use my hand mixer to whip them in the pot (which you would think overmixes them, but it's fast). At that perfectly seasoned and whipped point you can keep potatoes warm in a dish in the oven.


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[Anonymous No.14272938]

>>14272878
As suspected you cant afford cheese

[Anonymous No.14274156]

>>14271400
Kek, it's not like making homemade mashed potatoes are hard or something.

>potatoes
>milk
>butter
>black pepper or salt for season

It's not rocket science.

[Anonymous No.14274177]

So in other words, you’re saying that you cooked up a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig sloppa shit?

[Anonymous No.14275773]

>>14271378
parmesan is your friend in these trying times

[Anonymous No.14275789]

How do you fuck up mash?

>boil potatoes
>drain
>stick through a ricer or use a masher
>splash of milk
>butter
>couple of dollops of creme fraiche
>plenty of salt and fresh black pepper
>mix

[Anonymous No.14275793]

boil potatoes
put through ricer
butter
maybe a dash of cream
seasoning
mix on the heat until smooth
i go for a moldable consistency, hence why i dont use cream or milk

[Anonymous No.14276087]

>>14275789
This is the correct way to make mashed potatoes. Also you can add cream cheese if so desired

[Anonymous No.14276093]

add less milk

[Anonymous No.14277210]

>>14271378
How tf you get runny mashed potatoes, lol?

[Anonymous No.14277218]

>>14271378
Boil potatoes
Add a reprehensible amount of butter
Egg yolk
Grated parmesean
Huge scoop of sour cream
Salt + fresssshly ground black pepper, pinch of grated garlic
Mash
How can you fuck that up?

[Anonymous No.14277234]

>>14275789
dont do any of this it makes mustard gas

[Anonymous No.14277247]

>>14277218
Garlic in mash? Nah man that's just wrong. Agree with everything else (except the parmesan), but no garlic.

[Anonymous No.14277490]

>mashed potatos go cold in the micro second they are out of the pot

[Anonymous No.14277497]

>>14271378
Let them steam off and dry out fully before you add butter and mash them.

[Anonymous No.14277819]

>>14271610
me mum makes "smashed potatos" that I quite enjoy and are less effort
>slap whole unpeeled potatos in pot to boil
>vaguelly cut them into chunks, dont have tk be small
>slap them in a pot with aforementioned butter and salt, plus garlic and whatever green spices idfk
>literally smash them with a masher, don't go to the point of lumpy mashed potatoes just fuck their shit up
>tasty desu

[Anonymous No.14277830]

>>14277218
heh, dont forget pinch of cayenne

[Anonymous No.14277831]

>>14277247
retard

[Anonymous No.14277865]

>>14271610
>effort
>time
>mashed potatoes
These three words can not exist together in the same sentence.

[Anonymous No.14277902]

mashed potatoes suck
why would you take the extra time and effort to turn a perfectly good, firm potato with all its nice texture into mush?

[Anonymous No.14278011]

>>14277247
Are you retarded, garlic is pretty much universally regarded as a classic aromatic for potato dishes

[Anonymous No.14278344]

>>14271378
>Boil the potatoes with their skin.
>When they are done, remove the skin
>Boil some milk.
>Start smashing the potatoes with some butter and salt.
>Pour the milk and keep smashing.
>Add white pepper and a little of olive oil, coratina Evo or just another fragrant olive oil

[Anonymous No.14279337]

>>14277247
>no parm
>no garlic
what is it like to lead a joyless life

[Anonymous No.14279436]

>first time cooking
>try to make kebabs
>grill wouldn't light after 25 minutes
>got mad and threw it in the yard
>realize I need lighter fluid on the charcoal
>2nd attempt
>kebab skewers catch on fire and almost every thing falls into the grill
>only 1 kebab survived