Crispy Homemade Hashbrown Potatoes

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Hash browns are a breakfast food for me though I know they needn't be limited to breakfast. I decided some time ago that I don't care to spend the time to make hash browns in the morning.

Here's what I do. Defrost some frozen Tater Tots in the microwave, Mash them into a hot CI skillet with melted butter, brown until nice and crispy, flip and repeat. Viola!
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Around here, fried up cubed potatoes are called home fries. When the potatoes have been shredded before frying, then they are called hash browns.
Fried shredded potatoes are hash browns.

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Fried small diced potatoes are country hash browns.

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Fried sliced potatoes are home fries, unless you slice them too thin.

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Then they are potato chips.

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Believe me. I know these things.
 
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Fried shredded potatoes are hash browns.

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Fried small diced potatoes are country hash browns.

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Fried sliced potatoes are home fries, unless you slice them too thin.

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Then they are potato chips.

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Believe me. I know these things.
I'm a southern girl and home fries can be slices or chunks. I've never heard of fried cubes being called southern hash browns. Hash browns have always been shredded.

I know things too, plus I am southern.
 
You've made me want to try and make hash browns, they sound similar to the Swiss Rostii.
 
I'm a southern girl and home fries can be slices or chunks. I've never heard of fried cubes being called southern hash browns. Hash browns have always been shredded.

I know things too, plus I am southern.
I didn't say Southern hash browns, the bag did. I said COUNTRY hash browns, and there is country elsewhere besides in the south.

From Wikipedia:
These country-style hash browns
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are more tender, flavorful, and buttery. They have a different texture from the shredded premade hash browns that you take out from the freezer.

Also, if you add chopped onion and bell pepper to them they are called O'Brien potatoes, but I have no idea who O'Brien is. I said Country hash browns, but didn't specify what country.
 
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i'm no chef , don't claim to be but i do love "waffle house" hash browns . never could make them at home until i bought a Blackstone gas griddle . i use white potatoe's run those suckers through the shedder plate on my food processor and fire up the Blackstone once its hot spread a little butter on it and on goes the shredded potato's . cover and wait till they are brown on one side uncover and flip and brown on the other and now you have Waffle house hash browns
 
I have a life sized picture of someone in Buffalo firing up their Blackstone out in the backyard in February, during a lake effect snowstorm!

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Is this what you get?
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I get these and often just for a snack. Or I have them under my eggs like a toast. Sooo yummy- and I'm all out -onto my shopping list it goes!
 
McCains owns the Ore-Ida frozen brands. :mrgreen: McCains is a Canadian company selling supplies to 160 countries - including the U.S.
 
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