To say mash is overrated?

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

I'm just not keen on mashed potatoes! DH doesn't like flavour and just likes it mashed into oblivion with a dollop of his fake butter spread, or cheese (depending on the meal, we generally just have cheesy mash with sausages and beans).

The best mash I've ever had was the garlic one at Toby Carvery, it was SO good but sadly I've still not managed to recreate it at home. Recently I've started cooking new potatoes just for myself when everyone else is having mash. They're so much nicer and I can actually chew them, unlike mash...

However, whenever I see a post about roast dinners on Facebook, a LOT of people say that mash is the best part of a roast dinner. How?!

AIBU to say mash is overrated?

Mash is fantastic! Must have real butter and milk, or preferably cream added, fluffed with a fork after mashing, and then add cheese or mustard or chopped chives or spring onions for a variety of flavours and can be enjoyed as a 'stand alone' dish in its own right. Heaven!

I could live on mash made with real butter and salt.

I love mash but we don’t eat it very often, I don’t think I’d like it so much if we had it on a regular basis! I really like skin on mashed baby potatoes as well, not fully mashed so still some solid bits of potato as well as the skins. Might have that tomorrow actually…

We don’t mash with a roast but I can see how it would be nice, I’d have to have roasties too tho

@overnightangel

Excuse me?

Its tiny roast potatoes with herbs on. And its soft potatoes in garlic and cream. These are 2 completely normal, family friendly types of foods. It isnt my fault they have wanky names.

If you want to roll your eyes at something in my post, why not roll your eyes at the fact that they wont eat mashed potatoes or larger roast potatoes with herbs. Because that's why I roll my eyes at.

This is as bad as the risotto thread with people shocked that kids would eat it... its rice, onions and a protein or veg. Not a grown up food.

I'm no British. And I'm noticing more and more that if you deviate from feeding your kids British "meat and 2 veg" or it isnt chicken nuggets or pizza, then you get eye rolls and tutting. There are other countries out there, with entirely different food cultures. Maybe educate yourself a bit.

Real butter, splash of milk and salt and riced rather than mashed. I also like a spoon of horseradish sauce in mine too.

One of my favourite comfort foods when I'm poorly is mashed potatoes with cheese and a fuckton of tomato sauce mixed in

I hate mash that is really creamy and sloppy, I add a teeny bit of butter and mash it a few times so it's not like slop, it's kind of cumulus cloud shaped.
Potatoes taste great however they're cooked.

The garlic mash at Toby Carvery is amazing.

Mash you have to mash yourself at home is never as good as when you're mum does it. I did invest in a ricer but it was such a pain to clean.

Mash is lovely with loads of butter and cheddar but I wouldn’t have it with a roast.

I went for dinner at Galvin at Windows once and had a side of mash. Turns out Michelin star mash is probably about 80% butter to 20% potato but it was one of the nicest things I have ever eaten in my life.

I try to recreate it at home but can’t bring myself to put that much butter in.

Anyway OP, YABU mash (when made properly with real butter and full fat milk) is delicious.

Garlic mash is easy. Chuck a whole garlic bulb in the oven, roast it, then squeeze out the garlic from the cloves into your potatoes. Mash together with salt and lots of butter et voila.

But, yes, YABU. Mash is awesome.

I grew up in a mash-loving family. My Father was definitely a mash guy.

But since I met DH it has been roast all the way, except with shepherd's pie and sausages and mash. I confess I miss the mash at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I'm guessing my Dad's side of my family, mostly of Scottish and English descent, were mash eaters.

DH, born and raised in London, makes awesome roast potatoes.

Mash is lovely. But it does not belong with a roast dinner.

DH and I aren't fussed about mash, which is actually quite a lot of work to make properly.
Dc love it.
I secretly buy packets of dried mash for them, I live in the USA currently and there are a lot of choices in the dried mash aisle.
It is terrible mothering but everyone is happy.

I must be a badger, because 'Everybody knows badgers love mashed potatoes: bodger and badger, bodger and badger'

I LOVE mashed potatoes!

Can't stand mash. Almost as much as I can't stand every bugger who says "Oh, but you haven't tried MY mash!"

Garlic mash is pretty easy. Toss some garlic cloves in the water while you boil the spuds and mash them in. If you don’t want to do that add garlic powder when mixing in the cream.

My favorite are Brie mashed potatoes. I use less cream and add Brie while mixing.

Plain mashed potatoes are pretty boring but I do like them on occasion.

The other thing is to leave the skin on and not to fully blend, best of all worlds if you ask me.

I detest mashed potato. It feels like someone has already eaten it. No matter how it's prepared, I feel sick and just can't choke it down.

I will caveat this by pointing out that I'm autistic and I'm really weird about textures. I also hate mince, scrambled eggs, mushy peas (bleughhh), anything with beans or lentils in it, anything mashed up or paste-like.

I’m not sure if this is some kind of stealth boast. Who the fuck could be bothered making parmentiers or daphinoise all the time, or do you just pick something ready made from Tesco? Anyway I wouldn’t pander to such posh pickiness.

I agree about the pickiness but I’m not sure parmentiers would qualify as a stealth boast. It’s a fancy sounding name but they’re pretty simple.

Get the right sort of potatoes for mashing - I've grown my own on my allotment and originally I wasn't going to bother with potatoes but it surprised me just how much better tasting own grown potatoes are and how different the many varieties are in terms of their suitability for either boiling, baking or mashing. I found the Kestrel potatoes really excellent for mash - although you'll usually look up and see other varieties mentioned - Maris Piper, Desiree (red) and Marabel - which are often in the shops - Vivalidi I've never grown or had. If your paying 2p/kg for cheap spuds and they are the wrong sort - guess what - they taste rubbish when mashed.

I’m indifferent about mash. I don’t mind a decent one with loads of butter occasionally. I like it most on fish pie.
I have never had mash on a roast, just not the done thing in my family (or DH’s).
I do like leftover mash fried up though. Yum.

@UmbilicusProfundus

To make roast potatoe you peel and cut up potatoes, par boiled them, chuck them in the oven.
To make parmentier potatoes, you peel and cut up potatoes a little bit smaller, bar boil then chuck them in the oven.
Not really sure what part of that is something to boast about?

Dauphinoise. Peel and slice potatoes, put in a pot with cream and some garlic, bring to boil then shove it all in the oven.

Neither of them take more than 10 minutes of any actual work.

Wanky names, which I didnt choose. Very, very simple recipes with a couple of stages which takes 10 minutes of work.

YANBU. Worst potato going

the only thing better than mash, is mash topped with pot noodle

Riced not mashed, butter, salt, pepper and a sprinkle of freshly grated nutmeg ... perfection

Mash done properly is great. Equal quantities by weight of butter and potatoes. Food of the gods