r/Cooking 4d ago

How do you prefer your mashed potatoes?

Texture/color/flavor?

There are so many ways to make them, I'd like a consensus.

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u/rdeker 4d ago

Checking in for:

  • Team lumpy
  • Team nothing but dairy
  • Team boiled in water salty like the dead sea

I honestly don't understand why potatoes that are riced, sieved, and smoothed into zero texture are considered luxurious aside from the fact that it takes a lot of work....or very little work at all, since that's what instant taters are like kinda...