Potato Wars
 

How do you prefer your potatoes?

Orally.

Distilled

And then orally?

French Fries > Mashed > Hashed > Baked

Also...

Anally > Orally

Roasted.

How do you guys feel about sweet potatoes?

I always had a war at school with this girl about whether cheese or potatoes were better. I voted cheese she potatoes, and we'd try to gain more followers than the other but it'd always become half and half :(

They're garbage potatoes and belong nowhere near my mouth.

I'm not picky.

They're nice.

Can't we all just eat cheesy potatoes and get along?

You take that back, you hussy. Yams are a noble tuber.

Quit yer yammering.

I can't help it. I yam what I yam.

As a kid, I really hated boiled potatoes and wasn't too fond of most kinds of potato recipes.
I'm still not too fond of boring old boiled potatoes, but any kind of grilled, fried, whatever potato is neat.

The best way to eat potatoes: Boil some potatoes really good. Leave the skin on, wrap them in tin foil, then put them on the grill. When they've gained some colour, cut them open and eat with garlic butter inside. It's really good!

Why not just bake the potato?

Because it tastes differently. I'm not a cook, so I don't know why. I've had both kinds plenty of times and it's not quite the same. If you baked potatoes with the skin on, maybe it would be close.

..............why the hell would you bake a whole potato without the skin? I expected the Danish to be on top of this kind of thing.

I did wonder if that was gonna be a thing. I've only had them baked without skin. Maybe that's just the variant I've had, or maybe it's just the way all Danes do it? I couldn't say.

I also edited the comment above before I saw your reply, which is a stupid thing to do, so I cut it again and will put it here:

I guess part of the point is that when you go fetch your foil-wrapped potato off the grill it is searing hot and the butter will melt. While if you serve baked potatoes in a tray, they'll lose heat pretty soon. Tin foil wrapped potatoes can just stay on the grill while you eat and you can go get one at a time. I guess that makes sense... (?)

I also find tin foil to be useful. I just bake it, no boiling. Leave the skins on but poke a few holes in it with a fork.

The holes are so the potato doesn't explode, I'm sure.

Think they cook quicker. I don't do it myself. Just wash them and put them in the oven with the skin on.

I also make mashed potato this way if it's not being used for a pie, like if I'm eating a serving of mashed potato I'll make the mash from baked potatoes. It's really good.

Of Latvia. Find potato of baking, not findings butter, but cladding works instead. Burn building down, but at least not cold any more. Lose potato too. Such is life.

You're making me hungry. Now I feel like baking things and eating them, even though it's 10 pm here.

"potato of baking"... that should go in the Band Names thread!

Oh god, I have so many feelings about potatoes. I feel we all needed a proper outlet for our complex potato feelings.

Edit: I feel compelled to mention that I've gotten food poisoning from potatoes not once, but twice. The first time was from a potato soup at an Applebees in Sulphur Springs, Texas. This was my penance for eating at Applebees. (I had few other options, though) I've never been so ill in my entire life. The second time was just mild food poisoning from fries at Chef Point Cafe here in Watauga.

I'm conflicted about mashed potatoes-- the vast majority of mashed potatoes I encounter are quite disappointing-- often gluey and bland even if there's an adequate amount of butter. I may be in the minority, but I much prefer thicker mashed potatoes with lots of herbs and spices and bits of red potato skin in them. Plus an unholy amount of butter obviously.

I may actually prefer fries above all (ideally fried in goose fat, with gravy on top) but again, it's so difficult to find fries that are GOOD and flavorful + rich enough for my tastes. I don't even care much about crispiness, I just want a good texture + flavor. I really liked truffle oil fries back when those were super trendy and basically everywhere in Dallas.

Actually no, my favorite would be fried potatoes. Cubed (but not too small--not like hash browns) and fried in a cast iron skillet in bacon grease with lots of onion and pepper and cayenne and paprika and cooked for a long time. Ideally eaten over grits (edit: OR with chorizo) with a fried egg + hot sauce on top. That's basically my favorite meal ever.

Good, very good but ONLY if they are NOT mashed. Savory sweet potatoes are far better. I like eating them baked with salsa or hot sauce. Or cubed and roasted after tossing them with olive oil, cajun seasoning, red pepper flakes and a tiny bit of brown sugar.

Should we also be discussing potato chips? Strangely I'm not a huge potato chip fan but I do love jalapeno chips. Especially on sandwiches.

*stomach growls*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1bXQlWLl7U

I did this a while back. It's a mad ting. Really good.

I feel like there has to be some kind of mashed potato sandwich situation to be explored but I've never heard of it. A roast beef sandwich with mash potatoes sounds like it might be bomb as ****.

And roasted red potatoes are insane.

I'd pay for that.

Roasted red potatoes ARE amazing, I usually roast them quartered with rosemary and balsamic (and cajun seasoning obviously since that belongs on everything).

I have in fact had a mashed potato sandwich before. I've fully explored all of these potato situations. It's one of those things that seems like a really fantastic idea if you're extremely hungry/tired/drunk but in reality is terrible. It could maybe possibly work with roast beef but I wouldn't count on it.

To me it sounds like the issues would be with A.) the bread, and B.) making sure everything was hot and didn't cool down the potatoes. Throwing a couple thick slices of bread into a buttered/oiled pan like you're making grilled cheese and then making the sandwich sounds intriguing.

These mashed potato croquettes look really good.

It would definitely have to be grilled, which is exactly what I did (with leftover thanksgiving turkey and some other junk I don't remember). I guess it wasn't that terrible, but the texture of the mashed potatoes was a problem. I think it would be better with the thicker/coarser type of mashed potatoes, too, as I mentioned in my previous post. I can't decide whether cheese would be a good or bad idea, but surely it couldn't hurt. (But what kind of cheese?? Maybe gouda?)

I was thinking more that you'd pre-mix the meat with the potatoes rather than just adding the potatoes in a glob format.

Hmm, yes, can't have potatoes in a glob format after all. This is a science. And now that I think of it roast beef does sound like it would be ideal with mashed potatoes. Or corned beef, even.

I'm thinking about this and how I don't have any potatoes or roast beef and I'm dying here.

Look what y'all made me do! *stares at Ori* I didn't even feel like cooking tonight, and yet..

https://s17.postimg.org/bmdgfa67z/der5tye456b.jpg
(I had already stabbed at the egg before taking the picture, otherwise it might be less ugly)

:beer:

What the **** happened to the egg?

It's just an over-medium egg that I stabbed at and put hot sauce on. (Fried eggs improve everything, especially hamburgers.)

/thread on first page tbh

*cough*