Mashed Potatoes Can we all agree that whipped potatoes made

the best mashed potatoes i ever had was with chives and cream

sadly i am too lazy to ever make it

>>8306606
Yes chives belong in every mashed/whipped potato dish

Careful now with that electric mixer, you think you're just adding air, but you are really bursting all the potato cell walls and making starch glue.
I agree with the cream cheese, butter (lots), and milk to thin out. Boring potatoes are boring.
One may rely heavily on gravy, but we all know there isn't enough gravy. And that one asshole uncle helps himself to half the fucking gravy boat leaving nothing for the rest of the family.
We all hate that guy.

>>8306604
Any recommendations for butter-potato ratio?

>>8306604
Traditional mash IS with butter, though

>>8306604
You forgot the HFCS and bacon

pesto marshed perderder is best perderder

>>8306634
Tfw I'm that uncle

Cook a garlic clove along with the potatoes and mash it along with the potatoes

I only use a small one.

>>8306604
Oh yeah, that is almost always how I make mine.
Today I have to forgo cream cheese unfortunately... didn't get an extra packet and places are close now.

Sour cream over cream cheese though with chives and shaved truffles.

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>>8306939
>shaved truffles

OK, Marie. Did you let them eat cake too?

>mash potatoes
>add a little salt
>that's literally it

>>8306911
it makes me so nervous when places are close

>>8306604
No. Cream cheese in potatoes sucks.

Just use the heaviest cream you can find.

>>8306604
>not using a ricer

>>8307168
Yes indeed, potatoes are delicious, and a little salt is all a baked potato needs to be wonderful.
But mashed potatoes is another dish. Add heaps of butter and whip them with cream and potatoes reach another level of wonderful.
Apples and oranges, ho.

>>8307198
Putting butter on them makes them a little rich for my tastes. I can only imagine how fucking fat you would have to be to put cream in with mashed potatoes.

>roast a head of garlic
>mash it up
>heat cream and butter, add garlic, parsley, and rosemary
>pour into mashed potatoes, salt and pepper
>mix it all up
>eat it all

>>8307202
putting cream in mashed potatoes is pretty normal

>>8307202

Matt?

>>8306798
keep adding butter until it tastes good

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Not one person has brought up boiling the potatoes in stock instead of water.

>>8307185
I am such a shit head mobile poster, I'm sorry.

>Ctrl+F
>Leek
>Phrase not found

Seriously next time you make mashed potatoes add leeks.

Its just better

>>8308422
Why waste stock when it will impart a relatively small amount of flavor for such a high investment?

>>8308422
>>8308468
Why boil the potatoes when you could steam them instead?

>>8308422
Retard.

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>>8308468
>high investment
yes autismo, I'm suggesting you break down a whole chicken and simmer the carcass for hours for one batch of mashed potatoes, because
a) that's literally the only way stock could ever reach your home
b)
>"hurr store bought stock/GMO cancer/I'm a CMC and would never taint my patrician palette with anything not made from scratch" or anything else your unwarranted smugness can spew out.
>>8308500
quality post

>>8306604
>Adding cheese
must be 'murica

Does anyone leave some of the skins in?

>>8306798
2lbs butter per 1lb of potatoes

>>8308694
They don't have cheese in America just pasteurised milk product.

>>8308546
>calling someone autistic
>being autistic

If you're just using dehydrated cubes/powder you're just adding salt, which is fine in many situations but that doesn't constitute stock, dip shit.

At least you got a (you), now go get mommy to change your diaper, because someone is clearly messed themself and is cranky.

>>8308422
sounds like a waste of stock

>>8307204
Pretty much what I did just without the herbs. Head of roasted garlic, butter, salt/pepper, milk, and grated Parmesan. Damn good stuff.

>>8310317
forgot that I added some cream cheese too

I like chunky mashed potatoes, I confess

>can we all agree

Do you know where the fuck you are faget

>>8308723
>the current year
>using "lbs"

Boil potatoes, mash with butter.

Roast a bulb of garlic in the oven, squeeze into what's left in the pan, add some thyme sprigs. Use a nice, flavoursome stout to deglaze your pan, and then add 200ml~ or so more. Add 100ml cream to that and stir together. The leftover starch from the potatoes will help act as a thickening agent.
.
Pour stout cream sauce over potatoes, serve with some steaks or somethin'.

I like chipotle smashed sweet potatoes :D

>>8306604
Leave it too retardmerilards too ruin somthing as simple as potato and water

>>8310463
>potato and water
I feel sorry for ya son.

>>8308422
That seems unnecessary.

>>8306798
Add butter to taste.

>>8310474
You don't need to do an entire pot of it, but a cup or so of chicken stock/broth will greatly improve the potatoes.

>he boils his potatoes when he wants to mash them

Roast them you faggots

Skins on?

Or skins off?

>>8310472
Feel sorry wehn you die early dumb obese retard fag.

>>8306909
kys

>>8306604
Sour cream, butter, salt, pepper and a little milk.

>>8310523
Whoa there man, no need to get hostile just cause you're jealous.

>>8310514
Skins off for me. I leave them on when I'm making fries or something like that, that delightful bit of crispiness is fantastic.