I'm guessing here, but if I wanted to make this, I would par-bake the potato @ 350°F / 180° C for about 10-15 minutes, freeze it, then cut, then deep fry for 3-7 minutes.
Taste is the second most important feature of Vodka in that it is not supposed to have one. The least important feature is whether it is made from potatoes or not. You can make vodka out of practically anything.
maybe in elite ivy league colleges you get water filters, our version was when the roach managed to hang on inside the faucet long enough to fill up your glass
Twice-baked potatoes. Bake them, lay them on the side, slice the top off, scoop out the potato while leaving the skin intact like a little boat. Mash the spuds with butter, sour cream, seasoning salt, cheese, and bacon bits (scallions too if you like them - I don’t), scoop back into the potato, shred more cheese on top, bake until melted.
In taiwan they bake them, mash them, sculpt the mash into a potato shape, bread that, fry it, cut that open, then serve it with some combo of broccoli, corn, pineapple, shrimp, oyster mushroom and always swimming in an inch of nacho cheese.
That's a thing?? Whoa. The wooden ones SUCK, plastic is alright but plastic... how are the potato ones to clean? One of the nice things about the plastic ones is you can clean them and keep them around in your bag for next time you need a spoon.
Tots dude. They're basically cylindrical hashbrowns. You can eat them straight up with some sauce, throw them in a breakfast burrito, or use them as the base for a casserole
Yes, it is more complex and certaintly better than what I make, it is along the lines of the simpler recipes that use mayonnaise as base sauce.
I plan to one of these days learn how to make one of the authentic recipes that don't use any mayonnaise. If I were to try today I would try this one to start with, it's in Spanish, I guess any translator will do a good enough job with it:
https://www.pequerecetas.com/receta/salsa-brava-casera/
I've been pan frying pre boiled potatoes for breakfast instead of toast. Pop a couple of fried eggs on top. Vege snags and caramelised onion on the side. 🤌🤌🤌
If you were to rephrase the question as "If you could only eat one potato dish for the rest of your life, which would you choose?" I think I would find it hard to argue against the humble baked potato
That's almost identical to how my family makes latkes, just we add a little grated onion as well. Going back we're from nearby poland/lithuana so not that surprising i suppose.
We've found the secret is to hand-squeeze the moisture out of the gratings before adding the flour and egg, it just tastes way better.
Roast potatoes! My grandmother made the best roast potatoes in the pan as the roast beef dripped fat down on them; they were amazing, but it's sad that the meat had to be sacrificed to make them that way...
All things made from potatoes ARE BEST! Well, except, maybe, axle grease, or building foundations. Ok, and space ships. All right there ARE THINGS which shouldn't be made from potatoes, fine.
I think that "best" is tough, but some that I like:
Smashed potatoes. More texture than mashed. I favor olive oil over butter.
Uno's --- a US Chicago-style pizza chain --- has an appetizer that they call "pizza skins", which is a deep dish pizza basically containing loaded mashed potatoes. I think that it's pretty good, better than their regular pizzas.
Maybe I never had a good one? I could probably find a hundred potato dishes more delicious than the German potato dumpling, including straight up boiled potatoes with butter.
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More potatoes.
circa 7000 BCE, colorized
This
I wasn't expecting this reaction...
I know someone else has posted it but I'll add it here for visibility
https://www.allrecipes.com/bloomin-potato-recipe-11893783
That's just lazy french fries.
I was going to say hasselback but now I might change my answer.
Hasslebacks sexy little sister?
Cartesian hasselback
Hasselback^2
Hasselbacks
Is this cut after/during baking or before? I want to eat this right now.
https://www.allrecipes.com/bloomin-potato-recipe-11893783
Personally I would deep fry it rather than bake it, but to each their own
Do you cut it before, after, or mid way through cooking?
I'm guessing here, but if I wanted to make this, I would par-bake the potato @ 350°F / 180° C for about 10-15 minutes, freeze it, then cut, then deep fry for 3-7 minutes.
Looks delicious however they did it.
Edit: https://www.allrecipes.com/bloomin-potato-recipe-11893783
They used a microwave and conventional oven. Also they cut it first.
Hasselbacks are great
Vodka
Either you've never tasted vodka or you've never tasted anything else made from potatoes.
Taste is just one feature, and not the most important for vodka.
Taste is the second most important feature of Vodka in that it is not supposed to have one. The least important feature is whether it is made from potatoes or not. You can make vodka out of practically anything.
Most vodka is grain based
You'd be surprised...
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Isn't rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer cheaper though?
Rubbing alcohol will kill you at much lower doses. Isopropanol and ethanol have very different effects on your physiology.
I don't know how safe hand sanitizer is, but the other ingredients aren't meant for human consumption.
Either you’ve never tasted good vodka
Good vodka is just vodka that tastes less like vodka.
Best thing != best tasting thing
I've only tried it once but, Chopin vodka was nice.
grey goose or costco's generic vodka of the same vodka
You can just run cheap as dirt vodka through a water filter a few times to make it basically indistinguishable from top shelf vodka.
We tested this out several times in college with blind tastings at parties.
maybe in elite ivy league colleges you get water filters, our version was when the roach managed to hang on inside the faucet long enough to fill up your glass
Huh? We just bought a cheap Brita pitcher filter and used it.
Ugh, Brita is the worst.
I actually prefer potato vodka over grain-based.
Twice-baked potatoes. Bake them, lay them on the side, slice the top off, scoop out the potato while leaving the skin intact like a little boat. Mash the spuds with butter, sour cream, seasoning salt, cheese, and bacon bits (scallions too if you like them - I don’t), scoop back into the potato, shred more cheese on top, bake until melted.
Perfection.
In taiwan they bake them, mash them, sculpt the mash into a potato shape, bread that, fry it, cut that open, then serve it with some combo of broccoli, corn, pineapple, shrimp, oyster mushroom and always swimming in an inch of nacho cheese.
Damn I really miss living in Taiwan
Agreed
Is this called a Kumpir? If so, then I love it!
It’s not called that in my country but Kumpir seems like it’s a version of it! That’s awesome that it’s enjoyed all over the world.
Ireland.
Not Latvia?
The better question is to ask what's the worst thing made from potatoes. It's potatoes, boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew, can't go wrong.
An enema probably
Po ta to
what about up your bum?
I know this reference :)
pierogi, duh
Boil them
Mash them
Stick them in a stew
Even you couldn't say no to that!
Poutine
No! And absolutely no mayo in the ketchup for the regular fries!!!! Ok, budday?
j/k
That's a thing?? Whoa. The wooden ones SUCK, plastic is alright but plastic... how are the potato ones to clean? One of the nice things about the plastic ones is you can clean them and keep them around in your bag for next time you need a spoon.
That makes sense!
Tots dude. They're basically cylindrical hashbrowns. You can eat them straight up with some sauce, throw them in a breakfast burrito, or use them as the base for a casserole
I prefer rounds - less cylindrical tots means more crunch per cm. But same thoughts.
Patatas Bravas
would this be a decent recipe to start with? https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/230569/chef-johns-patatas-bravas/
Yes, it is more complex and certaintly better than what I make, it is along the lines of the simpler recipes that use mayonnaise as base sauce.
I plan to one of these days learn how to make one of the authentic recipes that don't use any mayonnaise. If I were to try today I would try this one to start with, it's in Spanish, I guess any translator will do a good enough job with it: https://www.pequerecetas.com/receta/salsa-brava-casera/
I'm struggling to decide between hasselback, mashed, potato cakes, and scalloped.
To make matters worse, I have discovered the existence of bloomin potatoes and pommes anna.
yes
I've been pan frying pre boiled potatoes for breakfast instead of toast. Pop a couple of fried eggs on top. Vege snags and caramelised onion on the side. 🤌🤌🤌
Food
It's hard to say. Every potato dish is great.
If you were to rephrase the question as "If you could only eat one potato dish for the rest of your life, which would you choose?" I think I would find it hard to argue against the humble baked potato
For me, baked potatoes is just about the worst thing you can do with a potato. It's not that they're bad, it's just that everything else is better.
I'd choose potato chips. If I'm stuck with only the one thing forever, I'm going to at least choose the one with the biggest range of flavours.
Really, really well made mashed potates is heavenly.
Combine with the grease from some meat you're serving it with... Yum.
Gratin Dauphinois
Chips
I'm not proud to admit it, but it is the McDonalds French Fries.
Theres also Potato Olés from Taco Johns which is not as good but still up there.
Behind that is probably a fully loaded Baked Potato with sour cream, green onion, cheddar, etc.
McDonalds french fries aren't even the best french fries, let alone the best thing made from potatoes in general.
Potatoes gratin. Pommes Anna.
au gratin is my favorite but a PITA make sometimes, for the second; is there a difference, i looked up the second one and it looks the same except in a circle https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/258434/pommes-anna-with-gruyere/
Kesselsknall. A German recipe, basically a large hash brown with bacon and sausage, baked in an oven.
According to Taste Atlas, it's Kartupeļu pankūkas.
https://www.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-potato-dishes-in-the-world
That's almost identical to how my family makes latkes, just we add a little grated onion as well. Going back we're from nearby poland/lithuana so not that surprising i suppose.
We've found the secret is to hand-squeeze the moisture out of the gratings before adding the flour and egg, it just tastes way better.
How has no one said a loaded baked potato.
Large large potato Stuffed with shredded chicken or pulled pork, bacon, sour cream, cheese, and chives, then bbq sauce or some hot sauce.
That's perfect use for a potato.
Tough call between french fries and baked potatoes.
Loaded French fries?
French fries (from Belgium with mayonnaise)
Chips. Specifically ones wrapped in paper from the chippy. The simplicity is the key.
Ideally doused in salt and vinegar and consumed while walking along a seafront promenade.
Mashed, but the key is lots of cream cheese
I'm thinking about some labne, which tastes cream cheesy but has the sour cream texture. Fuck I gotta bake potatoes this week
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I love all kinds but I make a mean mashed potato so I'll pick that as the frontrunner.
Roast potatoes! My grandmother made the best roast potatoes in the pan as the roast beef dripped fat down on them; they were amazing, but it's sad that the meat had to be sacrificed to make them that way...
Yes.
All things made from potatoes ARE BEST! Well, except, maybe, axle grease, or building foundations. Ok, and space ships. All right there ARE THINGS which shouldn't be made from potatoes, fine.
Potatoes should not be used in making love.
Don't 'yuck' someone else's 'yum', as long as it's between consenting adult tubers.
Ok Chuck
Everything.
This suggests that everything is made from potatoes.
Potato plants
Knödel
interesting, got a go to recipe?
Honestly I just use the ones I get off the internet.
I think that "best" is tough, but some that I like:
Smashed potatoes. More texture than mashed. I favor olive oil over butter.
Uno's --- a US Chicago-style pizza chain --- has an appetizer that they call "pizza skins", which is a deep dish pizza basically containing loaded mashed potatoes. I think that it's pretty good, better than their regular pizzas.
Curly fries
Yes
Potato scones. Paired with Lorne sausage and you have the best breakfast ever.
German potato dumplings!
Maybe I never had a good one? I could probably find a hundred potato dishes more delicious than the German potato dumpling, including straight up boiled potatoes with butter.
Could be, my Oma made em from scratch only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was my favorite food then and I miss them now.
I need to find an authentic German grandma that can make some proper dumplings for me, then I can make a proper judgement!
Yes you do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DodByZ-qgXs
This video from Ancient Americas on the history of the potato might be in my top 10 youtube videos.
Chunked and roasted in either butter or beef tallow, with garlic
Cottage Pie, Shepherds Pie, or Irish Stew.
Potatoes bringing it all together.
there is only one answer to this question and I have to go down three whole responses to see it at this point.
Tater tot hotdish
Anything but tater tots.