Could you help me make Mashed potatoes ?

[ACertainPassingUser]

I tried making mashed potatoes a while back, but I failed at the mashing process.

I don't have potato masher, so I'm using Mortar stemper at home :

And the taste, I don't have butter so I use margarine instead.

Any tips ?

 

[ThrillingHuman]

do you squash potatoes one by one with that thing?

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

I cut the potatoes into small bits, like in the YouTube tutorials. Then I mash them, or Stamp them with the mortars.

But instead of getting mashed, they become stamped and clumped. Many of the cut potatoes escape and make it hard to stamp them. Some even escaped the bowl.

 

[Rhaps]

My method is first, before you boil the tatoes, shred them with a grater, the finer the better. Don't chop them, we want those shreds to be bruised.

Next, soak them up with water for about 10 minutes or so. Let the starch seep out. Then you need to drain out the water, next put the shreds in a cloth, a cheese cloth would be recommended and squeeze as much water out as you can. If the water coming out is as white as cum, then you are doing it right.

Boil them like normal, the time depends on how fine your shreds are.

Drain the water and smash it with whatever you like, it should look like mush. My recommendation is a fork. or if you are feeling lazy, a hand blender. Add any seasoning you like, maybe an egg yolk for more thiccness.

Add butter, the amount depends on you, to a pan, put the flame on low head, and stirr until it reach a consistency you like.

Done.

 

[Lodur]

I tried making mashed potatoes a while back, but I failed at the mashing process.

I don't have potato masher, so I'm using Mortar stemper at home :

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And the taste, I don't have butter so I use margarine instead.

Any tips ?

I wonder, have you ever tried to force a square peg into a round hole?
If you trying to make well known dish (aka French purée), you need right ingredients. And preferably right tools. If you trying to simply make boiled potapoes softer, you can smash it on your plate by fork or spoon, and add for better taste what you have at hand: margarine, olive (or some other vegetable) oil, even mayonnaise. But it will not be THE "purée".

 

[Deleted member 84247]

@greyblob post your recipe.

 

[greyblob]

add a spoon of milk cream. butter also works but cream is lighter. the fat gives it the spreadness you want

and why would you need a mortar. just use a fork. are you mashing it raw?

 

[dummycake]

Why don't you just use a fork?

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Because nobody tell me to use fork, until now

 

[Woolen_Monkey]

Use straw.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Without a potato masher, I'd use a pastry knife

or an electric mixer.

You could even use a fork, but it would take longer.
Make sure the potatoes are soft enough, first. If you're mashing them, it's better to overcook them than to undercook them.

 

[RavenRunes]

put them in a bucket and tread them. I like to add buttermilk, garlic, salt and pepper.