Roast potatoes! My grandmother made the best roast potatoes in the pan as the roast beef dripped fat down on them; they were amazing, but it's sad that the meat had to be sacrificed to make them that way...
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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?
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)
Yes
All things made from potatoes ARE BEST! Well, except, maybe, axle grease, or building foundations. Ok, and space ships. All right there ARE THINGS which shouldn't be made from potatoes, fine.
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Curly fries
Potato scones. Paired with Lorne sausage and you have the best breakfast ever.
Yes.
Everything.
This suggests that everything is made from potatoes.
I think that "best" is tough, but some that I like:
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Smashed potatoes. More texture than mashed. I favor olive oil over butter.
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Uno's
a US Chicago-style pizza chain
has an appetizer that they call "pizza skins", which is a deep dish pizza basically containing loaded mashed potatoes. I think that it's pretty good, better than their regular pizzas.
Potato plants
Cottage Pie, Shepherds Pie, or Irish Stew.
Potatoes bringing it all together.
Chunked and roasted in either butter or beef tallow, with garlic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DodByZ-qgXs
This video from Ancient Americas on the history of the potato might be in my top 10 youtube videos.
there is only one answer to this question and I have to go down three whole responses to see it at this point.
Tater tot hotdish
German potato dumplings!
Maybe I never had a good one? I could probably find a hundred potato dishes more delicious than the German potato dumpling, including straight up boiled potatoes with butter.
Could be, my Oma made em from scratch only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was my favorite food then and I miss them now.
I need to find an authentic German grandma that can make some proper dumplings for me, then I can make a proper judgement!
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