Nerd Pride Radio

I don't peel potatoes anymore. I always eat them.

Baked potatoes, french fries, breakfast potatoes, hash browns, mashed even. Wash 'em. Do whatever cutting/dicing/shredding is needed. Cook, season, etc. Add condiments. Eat. Peeling sucks and it's unnecessary and it's wasteful.

Mashed potatoes were the last ones that I finally said to heck with it. Turns out that a blender shreds boiled potato skins just as easily as the meat of the potato. They're awesome. (Okay... so technically whipped and not mashed, but you get it.)

Whipped potatoes including boiled skins are a crime against both potato and humanity, but otherwise I'm totally here for you on the value of potato skins. Normally, it's a thing you should eat. But because we have functioning tongues and have learned how to make mashed potatoes from the potato-savvy French and Irish and Polish cultures, we take the damn skins off before trying to mash anything. Keeping the skins on and whipping the potatoes into a starchy mass of shit is something cheap chain restaurants learned to do to save time and money and destroy humanity in the process. And screw Martha Stewart, a Polish woman who should know better, telling us to press our boiled potatoes through a dicer or strainer and whip them with massive blobs of whatever clogs arteries, because you just don't need to do that either. Mash your damn potatoes with a masher and put low fat milk and sour cream in them like a sensible person should, or ignore my advice and eat horrid slop - it's a free country! Also, what masochist wants to clean a blender or strainer that has had mashed potatoes in it? Not me! I'm not into pain!

What about the blender? Or do you literally put the beater into the potato pot/bowl? Someone bring me the smelling salts, quickly.

I use a hand mixer. Not all of us can be as hoity toity as you. Some of us make do with what we have.

Why do you hate potatoes, and also me by extension, insofar as I am identified almost fully with the potato, since "you are what you eat"?

I only wish the violent assault of beaters on the poor potato, causing it to ooze its starch in terror, were so metaphorical in this case.

Whoa. I just got sick burned. Just drop the mic and leave, Ronster.

Potato skins are about as disgusting as sweat, saying "Bless You", and pot roasts.

They'd definitely get you a whole lot of negatives points in another, older thread.

Sweat is natural and healthy. Saying "bless you" is just a polite colloquialism, and pot roasts are awesome.

Dafuq is wrong with Pot Roast?

Granted, I only roll Pot Roast once or twice a year as there's only two people in the house who will eat it. Those things are delicious and economical.

Also, my Pot Roast is served with Syracuse or Salted potatoes - nom.

I'm going to need to understand what you mean by Syracuse and Salted potatoes, please. This sounds promising.

I just cooked and ate pot roast for dinner (same recipe as in cookbook thread) and it was amazing, thankyouverymuch. Chloe ate a piece of plain bread for dinner because she was so grossed out by every aspect of the pot roast and veggies. Tomorrow I will reheat a whole other round for meal 2, plus a meal 3 with barley thrown into the liquidy leftovers for a soup. So good.

I will find the recipe from America's Test Kitchen. They're amazingly salty and delicious. Yes, they will be very salty. Yes, you will have to wash some remaining salt out of your pot. Eat them anyway.

I have literally, until this moment, never heard of them referred to as Syracuse potatoes. Then again, I'm from Syracuse. We just call them salt potatoes. And I'm not particularly in love with them.