Claire
Master Chef
You can also rice potatoes in a food mill. Not quite the same, but close. I personally have a potato masher I "inherited" from my mil that is identical to the one my mother has, and I like my potatoes mashed with THAT masher.
Since everyone here likes food stories, I'll tell you about a coworker and freind. She was a good ol' gal, a southerner, didn't know a lot about food and nutrition and such. One time she commented to me that her folks were real ignorant, they called mashed potatoes "rice potatoes". I just started laughing. She'd never heard of a ricer, and I explained it to her. She loved it, and realized that her parents weren't quite as ignorant as she thought! Her family riced them in a food mill, which many households that do canning have.
Since everyone here likes food stories, I'll tell you about a coworker and freind. She was a good ol' gal, a southerner, didn't know a lot about food and nutrition and such. One time she commented to me that her folks were real ignorant, they called mashed potatoes "rice potatoes". I just started laughing. She'd never heard of a ricer, and I explained it to her. She loved it, and realized that her parents weren't quite as ignorant as she thought! Her family riced them in a food mill, which many households that do canning have.