To serve boiled potatoes

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Much stroppiness and comments and moaning because when asked what's for dinner and told them they asked would it be nice potatoes or boiled... Nice I said but they were boiled so apparantly I lied.. Surely everyone eats boiled potatoes for dinner in UK sometimes aren't they an English staple part of our traditional diet for context I didn't serve just boiled spuds I served with peas carrots and salmon encroute (shop bought but nice) are they just spoilt? We had pasta yesterday beautiful tapas day before Indian night before fresh fish etc etc it's not like they have to eat it every day I think they are too used to lovely exotic food and are just being ungrateful shits. Or are boiled potatoes actually that bad?

If someone doesn’t like what you have cooked for them, tell them to cook for everyone for evermore

I hate boiled potatoes, I only like new ones cold with mayo.

As a kid we had boiled potatoes done in the pressure cooker every week, I used to try and mash mine on the plate so I could eat them.

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Boiled spuds are the Lada of the potato world.

Genius comparison. They are definitely the institutional spuds.

Plain boiled main crop potatoes with salmon en croute sounds dire. There’s no gravy or generous sauce to make the potatoes appetising.

You lied to your DC that they were getting nice spuds and gave them a school dinner carb.

Boiled spuds are just boring and grim. There’s nothing to perk them up, even if you add sauce/gravy, they’re still pretty crap.
Boiled new potatoes with lots of butter is lush!!!
Or just mash them, because that’s so nice and it only takes 2 mins!

I don't think I've had boiled potatoes since I last had dinner at my grandparents house in about 1993

I mean, they're not baaaaaad, it's just that surely there's a million other equally quick and simple ways of preparing potatoes that are a bit more exciting?

Boiled potatoes - good sort, that actually has taste, such as the Bartlett Yellow ones - are fabulous when boiled in salted water.
What I find absolutely pointless and such a waste of stomach-space and calories are chips and even worse, the ghastly monstrosities they serve with fish at the fish & chips type of places. Horrid, tasteless things. [boak]
There are some nice ones in decent restaurants though, so not all chips are pointless.

And what else would you have with haggis.. Yes I'm scottish..

Mash of course, never known haggis served with anything else!

All these people boiling potatoes to the point they can be served as mash - no wonder no one likes them. Boiled potatoes are crap but boiled to that level must be difficult to actually eat plain!

Well, I don't think theres ever a truly bad way of eating potatoes (not a fan of rosti but even that's not awful) but it's hardly the nicest, mashed would elevate them hugely. A potato ricer saves all the faffy peeling etc.

Don’t they have forks, OP? My DM used to serve plain boiled old potatoes- we mashed them ourselves (adding a bit of butter while doing so) what’s wrong with that?

I can't stand mash so I regularly eat boiled potatoes when my family are having mash. I take some of mine out first. I do dress them with an olive oil dressing so they are not plain boiled as that is a bit dull but I much prefer boiled potatoes to mash

There's no reason why the others couldn't have just mashed their own potatoes on the plate or you know, cooked their own fucking food if they didn't like it

Well yes there is that. IME "only two more minutes to mash with butter" firstly isn't only two minutes and its yet another two more minutes on top of everything else. Simply presented carbs are served in pretty much every cuisine for a reason.

Boiled potatoes - good sort, that actually has taste, such as the Bartlett Yellow ones

Yes I'm wondering the knowledge of what to do with different types of potato has just been lost. Potatoes don't all taste the same any more than rice or grain varieties all taste the same. Pick the right potato for the job - it makes a huge difference to the food.

I don't serve plain boiled. I'd have new ones with butter and herbs or cooked in various other ways but find plain boiled boring, although had them as a child.

Boiled potatoes are like plain white rice. They exist to add calories to a dish by bulking whatever is supposed to be giving it flavour. At a bare minimum, salt, butter or gravy needs to be added.

I only ever get given boiled potatoes as part of a chicken curry. If I had them plain on a plate with some boiled vegetables, I'd regard that as the kind of boring plain food that gives English cooking a bad name. (And I grew up with that, as it was what my father wanted.)

I always forget how much Mn hates carbs

Not just MN - its been the fad diet for this last few years. Give it another couple of years and fats will be evil or some random vegetable or meat product.

I have a notion for boiled potatoes now. My nana loved them with loads of salt. I have never served them to my son who says that steamed new potatoes are the most boring of all the potatoes. This may be a 'hold my beer' moment!!

I have an allotment. I grow several delicious varieties of potato. I still don’t like boiled potatoes! It’s a horrible texture as much as anything else.

It depends on the potato! A cheap white waxy thing, yuck. But a lovely floury tattie, boiled and salted, is delicious.

Peeled and boiled potatoes with some butter and salt and pepper are delicious OP. YANBU.
I will generally mash them on my plate though but I do that with new potatoes as well.

@C8H10N4O2, Not a fad. Proven to increase risk of type 2 Diabetes. Some people can’t eat carbs without these turning into excess blood sugar, so, best way of reducing this in such people is to consume less carbs...

I’m Dutch, 99% of my childhood meals were boiled potatoes with veg/meat/gravy.

Right I dont get this .. boiled potatoes are rank but mash is delicious ..??!!

surely thats just boiled potatoes that you've hit with a masher

There is a lot of potato snobbery on this thread

Boring
Tasteless
Shite.

Boiled potatoes and vegetable with Salmon is OK as a meal, given salt and butter can be added to the potatoes, and one can also combine the potato with the salmon. (I'd find it a bit plain, but I could enjoy it a little.)

I think the problem here is that, compared to rice, pasta or couscous, potatoes can be more of a pleasure in their own right, especially if they are cooked with oil, so having them merely as functional accompaniment to something else was disappointing.

surely thats just boiled potatoes that you've hit with a masher

You’re going mash wrong if that’s all you’re doing with it. You need half a tonne of butter and milk.

Growing up we had boiled spuds every day. Big bowl of half cooked spuds with muck still on them left in the middles of the table every day. Took an effort to peel them and mash them and by the time i had them mashed my dinner would be cold. Still served that way when i go home, i avoid dinner there now. Never allow it in my house, only in the summer when you have fresh new spuds and they are cleaned propperly, cut to a nice size so they evenly cook. The rest of the year spuds a pre pelled before cooking and then mashed before serving. It takes an extra 5 mins