Do you make mashed potatoes from potatoes?
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Anonymous
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Do you make mashed potatoes from actual potatoes or from the box?
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Anonymous
| Potatoes. The boxed ones always have a peculiar flavor. |
Anonymous
| My wife loves mashed potatoes, but doesn't care for the boxed kind, so I make them from potatoes. |
Anonymous
| Never from a box |
Anonymous
| Potato. It is fast and easy and unprocessed. |
Anonymous
| Always from a box. It's what I grew up with and I can never get the right consistency when I try to make them from scratch. |
Anonymous
| potatoes. you have to be really lazy to use the boxed kind and they taste off. |
Anonymous
It's not fast or easy. Peeling, boiling, mashing, getting the butter, salt, milk ratio just right. Messy splatters, potato bits all over. I use a potato ricer so that gets messy too. I make them maybe 3 times a year because it's a pain. |
Anonymous
I don't peel my potatoes, never have. The skin has a lot of the nutrition. The butter/milk/salt ratio is not an exact science, its ok if its not the same each time. |
Anonymous
| Boxed only for camping, never at home. |
Anonymous
maybe I’m doing it wrong, but the potatoes stay in the pot and don’t get all over when I mash them and no splatters. I just serve them in the pot. |
Anonymous
| Potatoes, unless I'm backpacking. The boxed flakes are good for a trail meal, but that's about it. |
Anonymous
Actually- use Yukons or red potatoes with thin skins. Throw them in a pressure cooker and steam for 20-30 mins. Then mash! Easy peasy |
Anonymous
An electric mixer is faster and easier |
Anonymous
| A potato masher and a little arm muscle is fastest and easiest for clean up. |