Instant or Whole Potatoes

[Crystallas]

Do you bother peeling your potatoes? Use instant instead? Some kind of hybrid of whole potato and potato flour? The hell with peeling and leave the skin on? Do you buy peeled canned potatoes?

 

[Scoot26]

Wat

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Is this trolling? This can't be a serious thread.

Really? I mean, even Desbruh posts more interesting discussions than this. So this has to be trolling, right?

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

Potato is an apt subject on CCS.


Is this a call-out thread?

 

[Scoot26]

Wasn't desp voted potato of the year?

 

[Mitchapalooza]

Wasn't desp voted potato of the year?

PAPABEAR77 might take it away from him this year.

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

Wasn't desp voted potato of the year?

I believe so. And he has a yuge potato ear growing on his chin.

 

[Crystallas]

Is this trolling? This can't be a serious thread.

Really? I mean, even Desbruh posts more interesting discussions than this. So this has to be trolling, right?

Serious thread. Please don't derail.

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

Baking, broiling, frying, skin on.

Boiling, stewing, mashing, skin off.

Never canned, never flaked, no flour.




Potato

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

PAPABEAR77 might take it away from him this year.

:yep:

 

[Monk]

I prefer skin on for most potato applications. My wife peels them for mashing and she makes some really good mashed potatoes so I don't complain


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[Monk]

And potatoes are so freaking cheap, I never do instant.


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[Xuder O'Clam]

Mash potato recipe.

Put 3-4 whole cloves garlic, peeled, in water with potatoes. Boil as usual. Drain, and mash garlic with potatoes. Add butter, salt and pepper to taste and a bit of milk for consistency and mix. Throw in 2-3 handfuls of babby spinach and mix.

Awesome, easy garlic spinach potato mash.

 

[number51]

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

Tato stache. Never noticed that before.

 

[number51]

Tato stache. Never noticed that before.

Kind of a Ditka vibe.

 

[BearFanJohn]

Never, ever, instant.

 

[Novak]

Instant potatoes offer 95% of the flavor of whole potatoes, and the nutritional differences are negligible. Plus, there's the added hassle and wasted time spent constantly buying fresh potatoes, deciding to peel or not, peeling if you choose that route, finding your peeler/cutting board/knife, boiling, cleanup, etc. Seriously, be wiser with your time, people.

Solid recipe for the "instant" connoisseurs out there;
-1 box Idahoan original instant mashed potatoes
-1.5 teaspoons of garlic powder
-3 generous squirts of I can't believe it's not butter! Spray
-dash of salt/pepper
-half cup of shredded government cheddar (optional)

Follow directions on box of Idahoan, and serve with a sprinkle of dried parsley flakes for color.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

Instant potatoes offer 95% of the flavor of whole potatoes, and the nutritional differences are negligible. Plus, there's the added hassle and wasted time spent constantly buying fresh potatoes, deciding to peel or not, peeling if you choose that route, finding your peeler/cutting board/knife, boiling, cleanup, etc. Seriously, be wiser with your time, people.

Solid recipe for the "instant" connoisseurs out there;
-1 box Idahoan original instant mashed potatoes
-1.5 teaspoons of garlic powder
-3 generous squirts of I can't believe it's not butter! Spray
-dash of salt/pepper
-half cup of shredded government cheddar (optional)

Follow directions on box of Idahoan, and serve with a sprinkle of dried parsley flakes for color.

Sadly those instant spuds could never replace a good old fashioned baked potatoe.

 

[winos5]

Almost always use whole potatoes. If you boil them skin on and then run them under some cold water the skins will come off very easily. Just use a butter knife. I think I've made instant 3-4 times in the last 10 years, total.