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.
Could rank or tier list them. I haven't found anything not great made from potatoes (apart from perhaps... famine!) but some are undeniably worthier than the others:
::: spoiler Brainstorming
Roast potatoes > Fries. Controversial, yes, but they're kind of similar in texture and I'd eat roast patatas over wedgie patatas for any meal
Fries > Potato salad. Any meal is lifted by use of fries and they never become boring to eat, unless you eat them just by themselves haha (I've done this once for dinner). Potato salad's value is very dependant on how you make it.
Curries with potatoes in are good, but the potato isn't the key part of it, it's an add-in. This goes to the end of the list for now.
Innumerous other foods have potatoes in, and much like curries with potato, these foods generally use it as a thickener or as the "added carbs." When potatoes become replacable, they're not doing anything special
Potato Soups (where potato isn't really replacable) > Stews/goulash with potato > Curries with potato
Now i had that line about "when potatoes become replacable" but this does not change the ranking of fries and roasties, which are so good precisely because they use potatoes
:::
Hence a rough rank list:
Roast Potatoes
Fries [AKA Chips in UK]
Leak and Potato Soup. Yes, specfically leak and potato, that exact type of soup. Can maybe also be used as an anchor point for other types of potato soup, but i've never needed to eat those because i have L&P soup in my life.
Hash Browns. Kind of a lot of work for what you get, and a food easily spoiled by tasting the ambrosia of a superior hashbrown, which leaves you longing for that perfect hashbrown you once had, but alas you have a merely adequate hashbrown before you.
Crisps [AKA "Potato Chips" in USA]. Shaky position for this one
Stews (e.g beef bourginon) just because I long for it more than I long for potato salad. I guess it's a warm versus cold thing
Potato Salad
Potato curries
Mashed potatoes (which I still like, nontheless!)
Can we just pretend potato waffles falls under fries so i don't have to re-evaulate my ranking?
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.
116 Comments
Sybilvane@lemmy.ca · 86 pts · 166d
More potatoes.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 166d
circa 7000 BCE, colorized
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 166d
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
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 166d
That's just lazy french fries.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 166d
I was going to say hasselback but now I might change my answer.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 166d
Hasslebacks sexy little sister?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 166d
Cartesian hasselback
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 166d
Hasselback^2
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 166d
Hasselbacks
tyrant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
Is this cut after/during baking or before? I want to eat this right now.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
https://www.allrecipes.com/bloomin-potato-recipe-11893783
Personally I would deep fry it rather than bake it, but to each their own
JamieDub86@piefed.social · 3 pts · 166d
Do you cut it before, after, or mid way through cooking?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 166d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 165d
Hasselbacks are great
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 34 pts · 166d
Vodka
Hegar@fedia.io · 20 pts · 166d
Either you've never tasted vodka or you've never tasted anything else made from potatoes.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 10 pts · 166d
Taste is just one feature, and not the most important for vodka.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 6 pts · 166d
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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 166d
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Most vodka is grain based
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d
You'd be surprised...
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 165d
.
Hegar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 166d
Isn't rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer cheaper though?
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 6 pts · 166d
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.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 3 pts · 166d
Either you’ve never tasted good vodka
Hegar@fedia.io · 1 pts · 165d
Good vodka is just vodka that tastes less like vodka.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 165d
Best thing != best tasting thing
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
I've only tried it once but, Chopin vodka was nice.
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 166d
grey goose or costco's generic vodka of the same vodka
village604@adultswim.fan · 5 pts · 166d
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.
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 166d
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
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 166d
Huh? We just bought a cheap Brita pitcher filter and used it.
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 166d
Ugh, Brita is the worst.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
I actually prefer potato vodka over grain-based.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 166d
Ireland.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 166d
Not Latvia?
Skyline969@piefed.ca · 28 pts · 166d
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.
Hegar@fedia.io · 5 pts · 165d
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.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 165d
Damn I really miss living in Taiwan
grandel@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 97d
Is this called a Kumpir? If so, then I love it!
Skyline969@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 97d
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.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
Agreed
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 166d
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.
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 166d
An enema probably
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
Po ta to
AskewLord@piefed.social · 4 pts · 166d
what about up your bum?
UsoSaito@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 166d
I know this reference :)
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 166d
pierogi, duh
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 166d
Boil them
Mash them
Stick them in a stew
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 166d
Even you couldn't say no to that!
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 166d
Poutine
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 166d
No! And absolutely no mayo in the ketchup for the regular fries!!!! Ok, budday?
j/k
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 166d
forestbeasts@pawb.social · 3 pts · 166d
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.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
forestbeasts@pawb.social · 2 pts · 165d
That makes sense!
0ops@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 166d
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
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
I prefer rounds - less cylindrical tots means more crunch per cm. But same thoughts.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 166d
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.
Ice@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 166d
Kraiden@piefed.social · 8 pts · 166d
yes
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 166d
Patatas Bravas
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 166d
would this be a decent recipe to start with? https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/230569/chef-johns-patatas-bravas/
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 166d
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/
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 166d
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. 🤌🤌🤌
chunes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 166d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 165d
Food
Godort@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 166d
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
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 166d
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.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 166d
Really, really well made mashed potates is heavenly.
Combine with the grease from some meat you're serving it with... Yum.
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 165d
Gratin Dauphinois
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
Potatoes gratin. Pommes Anna.
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 166d
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/
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 166d
Chips
DonorTissue@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 166d
ravenpunk@piefed.social · 6 pts · 166d
According to Taste Atlas, it's Kartupeļu pankūkas.
https://www.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-potato-dishes-in-the-world
Hegar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 166d
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.
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
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.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
Kesselsknall. A German recipe, basically a large hash brown with bacon and sausage, baked in an oven.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 6 pts · 166d
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.
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
McDonalds french fries aren't even the best french fries, let alone the best thing made from potatoes in general.
Toes@ani.social · 5 pts · 166d
Tough call between french fries and baked potatoes.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Loaded French fries?
reallyzen@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 166d
French fries (from Belgium with mayonnaise)
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 166d
Mashed, but the key is lots of cream cheese
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d
I'm thinking about some labne, which tastes cream cheesy but has the sour cream texture. Fuck I gotta bake potatoes this week
JamieDub86@piefed.social · 5 pts · 166d
Chips. Specifically ones wrapped in paper from the chippy. The simplicity is the key.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Ideally doused in salt and vinegar and consumed while walking along a seafront promenade.
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 166d
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 166d
for more stoner lifehacks visit !StonerEngineering@lemmy.blahaj.zone :3
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
Could rank or tier list them. I haven't found anything not great made from potatoes (apart from perhaps... famine!) but some are undeniably worthier than the others:
::: spoiler Brainstorming
Hence a rough rank list:
Can we just pretend potato waffles falls under fries so i don't have to re-evaulate my ranking?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
Here are some tier list formats I found after a quick format
waxy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 166d
I love all kinds but I make a mean mashed potato so I'll pick that as the frontrunner.
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 4 pts · 165d
Mithre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
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...
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 166d
Potato plants
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
Knödel
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 166d
interesting, got a go to recipe?
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
Honestly I just use the ones I get off the internet.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 166d
Everything.
Triumph@fedia.io · 2 pts · 166d
This suggests that everything is made from potatoes.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 3 pts · 166d
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.
Triumph@fedia.io · 1 pts · 166d
Potatoes should not be used in making love.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 1 pts · 166d
Don't 'yuck' someone else's 'yum', as long as it's between consenting adult tubers.
Triumph@fedia.io · 2 pts · 166d
Ok Chuck
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 166d
Yes
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
Potato scones. Paired with Lorne sausage and you have the best breakfast ever.
tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 166d
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.
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 166d
Yes.
sheridan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
Curly fries
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d
German potato dumplings!
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d
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.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 165d
Could be, my Oma made em from scratch only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was my favorite food then and I miss them now.
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d
I need to find an authentic German grandma that can make some proper dumplings for me, then I can make a proper judgement!
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 165d
Yes you do!
Hegar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 166d
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.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 166d
Chunked and roasted in either butter or beef tallow, with garlic
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 165d
Cottage Pie, Shepherds Pie, or Irish Stew.
Potatoes bringing it all together.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 165d
Tater tot hotdish
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 166d
there is only one answer to this question and I have to go down three whole responses to see it at this point.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 166d
Anything but tater tots.