People who use an ice-cream scoop to dish up their mashed potato

[DrizzleMySwizzle]

Please desist. It’s psychopath behaviour and it repulses me.

Just slap a spoon of mash on the plate like a civilized person. Cannot bear those creepy little 'oh I look a bit like ice-cream but I'm not ice-cream' mounds.

Thank you for abiding by this new culinary law from this day forward.

I'll be keeping an eye on you. People who don't plop food are highly suspect individuals.

brilliant idea for stuffing 😉

I agree, it really looks rather cheap and shoddy.

I bought a set of those children's sand pit moulds (from a charity shop - I like to contribute to society when I can) and now I decant mashed potato as a starfish, a crab, a seahorse, a bizarre shape that none of us can fathom out (spot the nautical reference there!) a galleon and a treasure chest (with the treasure chest I press some peas and sweetcorn into the mash so it looks likes 'emeralds and gold doubloons'.

I think the Grand Master (we're in the Freemasons, of course) was most impressed even when he leant forward, rather lecherously, and his Chain of Office was drawn through the mash just like a dragged anchor. Oh, how we laughed!

I still use mine!

My thoughts entirely!

Would you happier with quenelles?

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It just reminds me of school dinner!!

I do this. 😂 Helps me hugely with portion control for some reason.

I'm a very visual eater. The image of a big slap of mash on a plate would turn me off, two scoops of mash seems much more appetising to me! 🙈

I love a portioner. Great for shaping / sharing/ measuring things out without hassle. Mash, choux pastry, meatballs, pakoras, cookie dough. You name it.

They also come in lots of sizes, the sizes relate to how many scoops per litre.

@McBuckers tinned tomatoes? The humanity! We got baked beans with spam fritters and mash.

I think I could have managed the beans. It was the tomatoes that really made me gag 😂

My mum used to do this, I still do! ( in fact I've got her actual scoop ). Two scoops is the perfect amount for a meal

50 years old and still works! 😁

You've just reminded me I have the perfect, never used, scoop in the kitchen drawer.

Thanks, roll on Sunday and our now retro Sunday lunch

I just use a trowel from the garden shed. Sorted.

Her what???

Only ever seen this in school dinners in the late 80s and early 90s. The mash was always dry, cold and inedible, probably from instant. On really unlucky days you'd get two scoops.

Aah my darling Mum used to do this and made amazing decorative meals for my children,her grandchildren. She was brilliant and my children have happy memories of granmas caterpillars, funny faces ,snails etc ..in fact I am now going to get an ice cream scoop tomorrow and repeat history with my granddaughter.

We did this when I worked in a hospital kitchen many moons ago (also for the stuffing). I assume it was for easy portion control. Outside of that and school dinners I've not seen it done anywhere else though!

Kind of how I feel about the phrase 'dish up'

(vom not envy!)

My parents did it as it was a great way to measure out carbs for my diabetic brother. This was in the 80sz. They still do it sometimes!

Don't think I've seen that since school dinners! Little mounds of lumpy potato.

@WooleyMunky

Penis portions = portions given to the males in the household.

I used to do it in the 70’s. I’m all about the quenelle now ( when I’m serving up my Idahoan instant mash 😆)