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Posted by I.E.Z. on October 1, 2009, 1:32 pm
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>> Many many men are fine, nay, excellent cooks.
>> My husband is one of them.
>> However he has some quirks.
>> Aside from leaving food and things in the middle of the dirty dishes
>> next to the sink, the one thing that I hate about when he cooks is his
>> use of the mixer to mash potatos. It all but chokes me to try and eat
>> them when they are done like that. Can you say overworked pasty goo?
> I've only ever had potatoes mashed that way. My mom used a mixer, I use a
> mixer. I use the zigzag thing to smash them first... just like my mom
> did.
> Since taters and gravy are just about my favorite food, I guess I better
> know how to make them better.
> Cindy
Me too! I feel like odd man out in this conversation. I have always loved
mashed potatoes and so does my son (his nickname when he was growing up was
"spud.") I have always done them with a hand mixer. Yep, it's possible
to overdo, but even then they are edible as far as I'm concerned. What
matters is the amount of butter and, in our house, evaporated milk. What I
don't care for are lumpy mashed potatoes with the skins on. Skins on
roasted or baked potatoes, fine and dandy, love 'em -but mashed should be
smooth and lump-free. INMHO, of course!
Iris
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Posted by Edna Pearl on September 30, 2009, 7:58 pm
I swear by my old-fashioned potato masher like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Oxo-Good-Grips-Potato-Masher/dp/B00004OCJK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1254354977&sr=8-1
or http://tiny.cc/pNfjZ
I have never seen one of these bend out of shape. It is very easy to use.
(Believe me, I have tendonitis and arthritis in my hands, and I just used
this masher this evening without any significant pain.)
I agree about the electric mixer for potatoes. Totally yuck.
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> Many many men are fine, nay, excellent cooks.
> My husband is one of them.
> However he has some quirks.
> Aside from leaving food and things in the middle of the dirty dishes
> next to the sink, the one thing that I hate about when he cooks is his
> use of the mixer to mash potatos. It all but chokes me to try and eat
> them when they are done like that. Can you say overworked pasty goo?
> We have two potato mashers, and I really can't blame him for not using
> them I guess. One is an old style wooden one, only it is rounded at
> the end instead of flat, which makes it really hard to use. The other
> is one of those modern bent steel with slots sort of things, and it
> is way too bendy to be very useful.
> His idea of hand mashers are the zig zag ones, he thinks they are good
> because you can bend them back into shape when you are done.
> On my planet they shouldn't bend in the first place.
> The hand mixer died.
> He doesn't want to drag out the stand mixer for potatos, the pan
> wouldn't fit and taking it off the stand for something like that seems
> a bit extreme. So when we have boiled taters now, we have boiled
> taters. (Yay!) Which means there are sometimes left over potatos for a
> fry up! (G) If I can beat the rest of the house to them, "potatos and
> salt, and find no fault" means something here. I am lucky if I have
> any to work with when I boil them and leave them to cool for chips!
> We will of course be getting a new hand mixer.
> I am also thinking very very hard about spending $10 on a decent
> potato masher. The kind I know best are the ones that are sort of
> wannabe ricers, a steel plate with holes in it on a handle. DH is
> absolutely convinced that the plate will come away from the handle on
> those. My mom has been using the same one for over fifty years, if
> anybody can destroy a kitchen gadget in five minutes or less it is
> her. On the other hand new ones might not be as well made.
> I think I will take the risk, even though I will have to mail order.
> Besides, that kind of masher just rocks for juicing fruit to make
> jelly or wine.
> DH says if I want the tatos mashed by hand I can do it myself.
> I am willing to make the sacrifice if it meands no more library paste
> and gravy.
> NightMist
> --
> Legolas is my house elf
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Posted by onetexsun on September 30, 2009, 9:53 pm
I love potatoes and gravy. Love that combo better than ..... almost
anything. We don't have gravy anymore -- it doesn't fit into the new
fitness regime which dictates one steamed veggie, one starch,
sometimes a meat or meat substitute, a green salad. Once in a while we
have oven roasted potatoes, but it's been months since I was able to
sneak in good mashed potatoes (by hand) with butter and milk and salt.
Even then, no gravy. I live for Thanksgiving. We have gravy then, AND
mashed potatoes, AND yams fixed the way I like them.
I don't know if we'll live longer or if it will just feel like it. I
am not losing weight on this food plan (not really a diet), and I
think it's because my body doesn't recognize what I'm eating as food
and therefore has gone into permanent starvation mode. I do get an ice
cream cone on a semi-regular basis. But it doesn't make up for
potatoes and gravy.
Eat some for me.
Sigh,
Sunny
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 1, 2009, 8:57 am
For some reason that reminds me of the beef council's '80s
"Real Meat for Real People" campaign with spokesperson
Cybill Shepherd (Wow, I can't believe how many spellings of her name
google has...) an avowed vegetarian at the time. She told em,
they didn't care, and she took the money... (so I just read).
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> I love potatoes and gravy. Love that combo better than ..... almost
> anything. We don't have gravy anymore -- it doesn't fit into the new
> fitness regime which dictates one steamed veggie, one starch,
> sometimes a meat or meat substitute, a green salad. Once in a while we
> have oven roasted potatoes, but it's been months since I was able to
> sneak in good mashed potatoes (by hand) with butter and milk and salt.
> Even then, no gravy. I live for Thanksgiving. We have gravy then, AND
> mashed potatoes, AND yams fixed the way I like them.
> I don't know if we'll live longer or if it will just feel like it. I
> am not losing weight on this food plan (not really a diet), and I
> think it's because my body doesn't recognize what I'm eating as food
> and therefore has gone into permanent starvation mode. I do get an ice
> cream cone on a semi-regular basis. But it doesn't make up for
> potatoes and gravy.
> Eat some for me.
> Sigh,
> Sunny
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Posted by Bonnie Patterson on October 2, 2009, 9:36 am
Gravy has always been my beverage of choice, mashed potatoes with
lumps, just the way Mum used to make. Yummy in the tummy!
Bonnie, in Middletown, VA
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:53:52 -0700 (PDT), onetexsun
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>I love potatoes and gravy. Love that combo better than ..... almost
>anything. We don't have gravy anymore -- it doesn't fit into the new
>fitness regime which dictates one steamed veggie, one starch,
>sometimes a meat or meat substitute, a green salad. Once in a while we
>have oven roasted potatoes, but it's been months since I was able to
>sneak in good mashed potatoes (by hand) with butter and milk and salt.
>Even then, no gravy. I live for Thanksgiving. We have gravy then, AND
>mashed potatoes, AND yams fixed the way I like them.
>I don't know if we'll live longer or if it will just feel like it. I
>am not losing weight on this food plan (not really a diet), and I
>think it's because my body doesn't recognize what I'm eating as food
>and therefore has gone into permanent starvation mode. I do get an ice
>cream cone on a semi-regular basis. But it doesn't make up for
>potatoes and gravy.
>Eat some for me.
>Sigh,
>Sunny
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>> My husband is one of them.
>> However he has some quirks.
>> Aside from leaving food and things in the middle of the dirty dishes
>> next to the sink, the one thing that I hate about when he cooks is his
>> use of the mixer to mash potatos. It all but chokes me to try and eat
>> them when they are done like that. Can you say overworked pasty goo?
> I've only ever had potatoes mashed that way. My mom used a mixer, I use a
> mixer. I use the zigzag thing to smash them first... just like my mom
> did.
> Since taters and gravy are just about my favorite food, I guess I better
> know how to make them better.
> Cindy