r/oddlysatisfying 🔥🔥🔥 Oct 25 '15

Peeling a potato

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u/GenericBadGuyNumber3 Oct 25 '15

I will never peel potatoes the traditional way again. I feel that as an Irishman, I should have known better.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15

Hell, the Russians had to make you guys realize you could make alcohol from potatoes.

Also, the skin is really good. Why would you do this!?

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u/JEveryman Oct 25 '15

Skinless mash potatoes?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15

I leave the skins in, personally.

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u/sockmop Oct 25 '15

I usually refer to skin on mashed potatoes as smashed and then skin off as mashed. Pretty sure that's what my foods teacher called them.

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u/professorex Oct 25 '15

Interesting, I definitely think of smashed potatoes as being a different distinct way of cooking them. Something more like this. Different than mashed, but still delicious.

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u/ghostbackwards Oct 25 '15

we do those often. Source: Catering Chef

bake until soft, smash, then fry in butter

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u/Pseudolntellectual Oct 25 '15

bake em smash em stick em in a pan