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What's the best thing made from potatoes? (piefed.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by toomanypancakes@piefed.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Could rank or tier list them. I haven't found anything not great made from potatoes (apart from perhaps... famine!) but some are undeniably worthier than the others:

Brainstorming

Roast potatoes > Fries. Controversial, yes, but they're kind of similar in texture and I'd eat roast patatas over wedgie patatas for any meal
Fries > Potato salad. Any meal is lifted by use of fries and they never become boring to eat, unless you eat them just by themselves haha (I've done this once for dinner). Potato salad's value is very dependant on how you make it.
Curries with potatoes in are good, but the potato isn't the key part of it, it's an add-in. This goes to the end of the list for now.
Innumerous other foods have potatoes in, and much like curries with potato, these foods generally use it as a thickener or as the "added carbs." When potatoes become replacable, they're not doing anything special
Potato Soups (where potato isn't really replacable) > Stews/goulash with potato > Curries with potato
Now i had that line about "when potatoes become replacable" but this does not change the ranking of fries and roasties, which are so good precisely because they use potatoes

Hence a rough rank list:

Roast Potatoes
Fries [AKA Chips in UK]
Leak and Potato Soup. Yes, specfically leak and potato, that exact type of soup. Can maybe also be used as an anchor point for other types of potato soup, but i've never needed to eat those because i have L&P soup in my life.
Hash Browns. Kind of a lot of work for what you get, and a food easily spoiled by tasting the ambrosia of a superior hashbrown, which leaves you longing for that perfect hashbrown you once had, but alas you have a merely adequate hashbrown before you.
Crisps [AKA "Potato Chips" in USA]. Shaky position for this one
Stews (e.g beef bourginon) just because I long for it more than I long for potato salad. I guess it's a warm versus cold thing
Potato Salad
Potato curries
Mashed potatoes (which I still like, nontheless!)

Can we just pretend potato waffles falls under fries so i don't have to re-evaulate my ranking?

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Here are some tier list formats I found after a quick format

Tierlist A is potato-centric side dishes, so no stew or soup
Tierlist B is slightly more international
Tierlist C Manages to keep the list a bit trim by focusing just on the process of how we get there (mash 'em, fry 'em, curry 'em, distill 'em)