Pre-preparing Potatoes!

[HEyHEY]

That's what I'm doing! I want hash browns tomorrow...so I gotta boil and mash em now! MMMMMMM....So I'm killing time as the stove bubbles. Why are you here?

[SoCalDem]

1. mashed hashbrowns???

We bake 'em and put 'em in the fridge overnight...then peel & shred them in the morning..:)

Are you making potato pancakes???

[HEyHEY]

2. nah...you take ....

The spuds...cut em in thin ovals...boil em until they're soft..but not too soft...not the way the would be when ya cook em. THen the next morning you heat them up in a frying pan. THat way it's hot, cooked and still has an edible texture...plus, you get those cripsies...mmm crispies.

But I have been known to make what I officially to call Mash Browns!

[SOteric]

4. I hate to break it to you, but those aren't 'hash browns.'

Hash browns are called that because the potatoes are 'hashed' - which is to say they've been shredded. If you mash them or cut them in thin ovals and cook them, you have cooked potatoes. You may even have browned, crispy potatoes; but you don't have hash browns.

[corarose]

10. Potato Pancakes

If they are mashed and then fried they are called Potato Cakes.

[Friar]

7. those are "Home Fries"

And are yummie.

[HEyHEY]

3. Dang delayed

Stupid me forgot to turn on the element....humph

[Wonk]

5. That deserves an EXCLAMATION POINT!?!???!??!!??!?!??!???!?!?!!!???!??!? nt

[Friar]

6. just got finished playing music for my buds

on ventrilo. It's a great voice chat program. It 0wnz0rz team speak or RW.

So I thought I'd stop by.

[grasswire]

8. yes, you have home fries

And hash browns are technically made with raw potatoes, not cooked, and are finely cubed or shredded.

I like to make sweet potato home fries. Delicious.

[corarose]

9. Grate them instead of mashing them.

:kick:

[RebelOne]

11. Hell, just go out and buy frozen hashed browns.

Beats doing all that shredding.

[tarheel]

12. I always loved

the hash browns at Waffle House (a regional 24 hour a day breakfast food restaraunt, known for its deliciously greasy food, for you non-southerners) scattered, covered, smothered and chunked.

Several years ago a cook at one Waffle House I frequented told me the secret to making hash browns like they do at Waffle House. what you do is shred the potatos and then rinse them in a colonder and drain the water and re-rinse several times. This is done to remove the bulk of the starch from the potatos. Keep rinsing until the drained of water is pretty much clear.

This produces a wonderfully crisp and brown pan full of hash browns. To me there is nothing worse in breakfast foods that soggy, greasy, stuck together hash browns. Yuck !


P.S. Just add onions, ham and cheese to get the above mentioned "scattered, covered, smothered and chunked version"

[phoebe]

13. sounds like you have bubbles without the squeak..

n/t