Mashed Potato - Lumpy or smooth?

[Simbo]

A work colleague of mine has recently told me that smooth mashed potato makes him feel sick. He only mashes his slightly so that it is really lumpy. Freak.

 

Mine has to be as smooth as possible. I usually throw in LOADS of butter and a splash of milk and then get the electric whisk out. You could almost drink the stuff as it is so smooth and creamy.

 

Anyway, it got me wondering what the GF's take on the issue was.

 

Vote away!!

[Rex Banner]

Who the fuck would like it lumpy? A person who doesn't know food that's who.

So your mate hates a smooth creamy white substance hmmm, repressed childhood memories?

Edited March 29, 2011 by Rex Banner

[Lee909]

I wouldnt call it mash,as such.But i do like slighty crushing new potato with plenty of butter and pepper.

[Redder Lurtz]

I had pie & mash in a very old pub in Lindon caled the Cittie of York. The mash was a bit more than crushed, it was fairly well mashed up potato but they were new potatoes and the skin was left on when they mashed them. Quite simply the best mashed potato I've ever had, and I suppose that would come under 'lumpy'.

[Lee909]

Same type of thing i was talking about.I wouldnt call it mash myself.

[silverlining]

Interesting debate. I would always go "smooth" but you do need to get the consistency, creaminess and "bite" absolutely right. Too smooth and it's grainy baby-food (like if you blended it, or added too much milk).

 

The "crushed potato" movement was started by some posh chefs somewhere, and has now trickled down into every bog-standard bistro and half-arsed "gastro pub" in the world, and quite frankly can go and fuck itself.

[18-5]

I like my Colcannon a bit lumpy.

 

Sausage and Colcannon..Hmmmm... Yummy!!

[sparta7]

Smooth mash is lame. Just lame. Chuck Norris would have mash lumpy. Steven Seagal or Lewis Collins would have smooth.

[Carradona]

Boil the potatoes. In a seperate pot, steam some broccoli. In a seperate pot, boil some peas.

 

When they are all ready, put them all into the same pot and mash them, but not too much. Put a few knobs of butter in there, some salt and some pepper.

 

Sex.

[Remmie]

Boil the potatoes. In a seperate pot, steam some broccoli. In a seperate pot, boil some peas.

 

When they are all ready, put them all into the same pot and mash them, but not too much. Put a few knobs of butter in there, some salt and some pepper.

 

Sex.

You're doing it wrong.

[mattyq]

Lumpy mash is the way forward. If it's too smooth it tastes like the shit they give to coma victims

[Trumo]

Lumpy mash is the way forward. If it's too smooth it tastes like the shit they give to coma victims

 

Through a drip?

[Byrnie]

Silverlining knows!

[llego]

Mashed potatoes are the only thing Im really good at cooking.

 

I put in about half a pound of butter and whip them up to a cloud-like consistency. It needs to be so smooth, fluffy and light that you can make towering sculptures that still melt instantly in your mouth. Buttery heaven. Anyone who likes them lumpy is a criminal.

[Newport]

Smooth is baby food. If it's not lumpy it could just as well be some factory bollocks you add water to.

[Lee909]

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[Caramac]

Mashed potatoes = no lumps

If you want lumpy potatoes then don't mash them, simple.

If anyone produces lumpy mashed potatoes in our household they get banished to the garden shed for a week.

[Alan Sex]

As smooth as Roger Moore's spunk, please.

[Guest simon]

I Do my mash with oil cream and butter.

[RoboRiise]

Lumpy mash = not doing it right.

[Joe Le Taxi]

A work colleague of mine has recently told me that smooth mashed potato makes him feel sick. He only mashes his slightly so that it is really lumpy. Freak.

 

Mine has to be as smooth as possible. I usually throw in LOADS of butter and a splash of milk and then get the electric whisk out. You could almost drink the stuff as it is so smooth and creamy.

 

Anyway, it got me wondering what the GF's take on the issue was.

 

Vote away!!

 

That's a bit too much but I do like it quite soft and creamy.

 

I Do my mash with oil cream and butter.

 

Simon do you ever add extra stuff to it? I usually add garlic, herbs or Philadelphia spread in to it, as well as the butter and milk.

[Guest simon]

That's a bit too much but I do like it quite soft and creamy.

 

 

 

Simon do you ever add extra stuff to it? I usually add garlic, herbs or Philadelphia spread in to it, as well as the butter and milk.

 

Good potatoes speak for themselves mate. Get some nice Deserie on the go bit of salt your laughing. I like to add cheese or horse radish sauce to my mash. But they dont need much really like i said good Potatoes are all you need. Boil them Mash them then transfer to a pan of little olive oil. mix in then add butter work that in then add your cream i like them very smooth almost runny. I also love a fair bit of salt.

 

Gruyere cheese i like to use.

[Guest simon]

If you really want to use herbs Dill or Roseary is what you need with rosemary infuse it into your butter.

[sparta7]

Lumpy mash = not doing it right.

 

You need to open your mind Robo, let the lumpy mash vibe in. You wont regret it.

[Remmie]

I am open to both