Potato Mashers

[FlashJack]

6 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

at home she often skipped the chinois

Such admirably low standards.

 

My ever-reliable dinner fork is 21cm (8.25 inches).

[JoNorvelleWalker]

44 minutes ago, FlashJack said:

Such admirably low standards.

 

My ever-reliable dinner fork is 21cm (8.25 inches).

 

Your pot may be bigger than mine.

 

[FlashJack]

Jo, you are one person I'd not like to get into a pot war with.

 

My pot is very modest. Two- or three-potato size.

 

I do have one I can stand in but that is kept in the garage of my former mother-in-law. We use it for tomato sauce season.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

2 minutes ago, FlashJack said:

Jo, you are one person I'd not like to get into a pot war with.

 

My pot is very modest. Two- or three-potato size.

 

I do have one I can stand in but that is kept in the garage of my former mother-in-law. We use it for tomato sauce season.

 

I have a stockpot I could stand in.  The question remains, how do you mash a potato in a pot using a fork when the fork does not fit in the pot?

 

[FlashJack]

Jo I'll post an instructional video when next I make mash. Which is not all that often but I might have been provoked into action.

 

I also have a ricer. I use it when making mash for such things as potato and cod balls. Also not often I do Richard Cornish's wonderful recipe for Irish Eggs -- quail eggs encased in mash, breaded and fried. Delicious.

 

But I stand by my fork and my pot!

[FlashJack]

11 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I have a stockpot I could stand in

Mine is ex-mother-in-law size. I've often thought of simmering her from the toes up.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

9 hours ago, Anna N said:

Might be fine for a chef reaching for another star but for a home cook? I suggest he or she ought to be committed. 

 

Anna, I posses hundreds of cookbooks and a poor memory for names and titles.  Fortunately a fair memory for hot babes.  And it was a slow night.  The mystery chinois mashed potato chef is Kristen Kish.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Kish

 

 

I recommend her book.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

11 minutes ago, FlashJack said:

Jo I'll post an instructional video when next I make mash. Which is not all that often but I might have been provoked into action.

 

I also have a ricer. I use it when making mash for such things as potato and cod balls. Also not often I do Richard Cornish's wonderful recipe for Irish Eggs -- quail eggs encased in mash, breaded and fried. Delicious.

 

But I stand by my fork and my pot!

 

Almost as good as in.

 

Edited December 2, 2021 by JoNorvelleWalker
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[JoNorvelleWalker]

5 minutes ago, FlashJack said:

Mine is ex-mother-in-law size. I've often thought of simmering her from the toes up.

 

Braise?

 

[FlashJack]

12 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Braise?

Long time. Then eat the brick.

 

I fear we are getting off the topic: the fork is mightier than the masher.

[Anna N]

9 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Anna, I posses hundreds of cookbooks and a poor memory for names and titles.  Fortunately a fair memory for hot babes.  And it was a slow night.  The mystery chinois mashed potato chef is Kristen Kish.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Kish

 

 

I recommend her book.

 

Awfully glad you were able to tweak your memory. I am not familiar with this chef. I could never get into those cooking contest shows. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

4 hours ago, Anna N said:

Awfully glad you were able to tweak your memory. I am not familiar with this chef. I could never get into those cooking contest shows. 

 

Nor have I.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Tonight I took an informal poll among my colleagues:  one uses an immersion blender, one said a fork*.  Another uses a ricer or an S shaped masher.  The fourth turned out to be Irish and an aficionado of Kristen Kish.

 

 

*though I suspect his response was less verity and more a cheap opportunity to mess with me and my potatoes.

 

[dscheidt]

I can't be the only one who uses a whisk? A nice heavy ballon whisk, like you'd use for whipping up some cream. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

For dinner I used my ricer.  Ricer only, no tamis.  I found the result gritty, for lack of a better term.  Still, none of the potato went to waste.

 

[chromedome]

6 hours ago, dscheidt said:

I can't be the only one who uses a whisk? A nice heavy ballon whisk, like you'd use for whipping up some cream. 

I've retained an oversized balloon whisk from my restaurant days for that express purpose, but only prepare them in that kind of quantity once every couple of years. It works pretty well.

Most recently I used it to mash the chokecherries for our current batch of chokecherry wine.

[Anna N]

I suppose it will strike some people as gauche, but I have been known to mash my potatoes with my dinner fork right on my dinner plate. I incorporate some butter and gravy if it’s available.  One can also quickly transform plain old mashed potatoes into colcannon if there happens to be a little cabbage on the plate. Come to think of it the possibilities seem endless. 

[liuzhou]

15 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I suppose it will strike some people as gauche, but I have been known to mash my potatoes with my dinner fork right on my dinner plate. I incorporate some butter and gravy if it’s available.  One can also quickly transform plain old mashed potatoes into colcannon if there happens to be a little cabbage on the plate. Come to think of it the possibilities seem endless. 

 

Absolutely. Some serious over thinking going on here. There's champ. too!

[weinoo]

On 11/30/2021 at 6:13 PM, btbyrd said:

These were made by the now defunct Foley corporation of Minneapolis Minnesota.

 

I couldn't resist...

 

 

 

Great price. Arrived today and it's in much better condition that I hoped for!

[JoNorvelleWalker]

 

$9.95 plus tax and shipping.  It works.  Also best tool so far for opening my salt shaker.  A true mulitasker.

 

 

[chromedome]

3 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

 

Also best tool so far for opening my salt shaker.  A true mulitasker.

 

 

LOL Who knew?

[weinoo]

I used my new (old) Foley fork for the first time last night...

 

 

Did an admirable job, and cleanup is certainly a lot easier than using ricer and another bowl or two.

[Tropicalsenior]

6 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

$9.95 plus tax and shipping.  It works.  Also best tool so far for opening my salt shaker.  A true mulitasker.

 

 

That's the type of potato masher that I grew up with. It wasn't as pretty as that but my mother sure made good mashed potatoes. I haven't been able to find one like that for years.

I'm glad you found your new potato masher. Maybe not state-of-the-art but sometimes old style is the best.

Edited December 12, 2021 by Tropicalsenior (log)

[Smithy]

I had never heard of a Foley potato masher, nor seen such a strange "fork" until this topic. Two days ago I was visiting friends...and spotted this in their drawer!

 

[Anna N]

48 minutes ago, Smithy said:

I had never heard of a Foley potato masher, nor seen such a strange "fork" until this topic. Two days ago I was visiting friends...and spotted this in their drawer!

Did you grab it? Did you explain what it was? Or perhaps they knew what it was. I must tell you that if I was still mashing potatoes for more than one person I would be anxiously looking for one of those. There’s nothing nicer than a ricer but it’s a bitch to clean and store. A quick rinse under the tap and that fork is ready to be dried and put away.