TIL... (today I learned)

[Andy M.]

Clearly a gift.

 

[HeyItsSara]

clearly!!!

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

TIL that using a whisk is much easier than a potato masher when making mashed potatoes. I did cook the potatoes with no salt. According to Danes, that is the better way to cook potatoes for mash. I'm still not sure that it actually makes a difference. Something about salt "increasing the structural integrity of starch". I'm dubious, but willing to experiment.

I don't even own a potato masher. I've used a potato ricer ever since I discovered them many many years ago, and guess what? Never, ever do I have lumps in my mashed potatoes. Another benefit is, if you use small potatoes like yukon gold or red skins, you can boil them with the skins on, then when you squeeze them in the ricer, the potato comes out the bottom and the skin is left behind.

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

I've always been told I was gifted, since I was a small child.

 

[dragnlaw]

Isn't it amazing that all you friends are such good liars!

 

[Jusa]

Isn't it amazing that all you friends are such good liars!

It probably was his family that did that to him...

I've always been told I was gifted, since I was a small child.

I was told I was gifted at being annoying by my siblings (youngest of 6 kids).