Maybe a strange question, but would you put your POTATOES through the blender PRIOR to cooking?

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If you are making a stew, a long slow affair, and a big bulk of contents is potatoes (pork, onion, garlic, swede, carrots, potatoes, leek) and when it is nearly done you realise there is not enough potatoes. By this stage the potatoes should be closer to mash than actual potatoes. So, question is: Is it ok to put uncooked potatoes through the blender and add to stew and just cook some 10-15 minutes extra, or is this a No NO!?

what on earth?!

Just cube some pots and boil them for 10 mins then add them to the stew. Your pots really shouldn't be like puree anyway, what are you doing?!

it will just goto slushy muck.
not nice
bit gritty too

chop um up small, boil their asses off then chuck in.
much nicer
take 10 mins

Definitely not as the chemical compound of the potato starch will turn them to a kind of glue!

dont blend spuds you break up starch ruining them

chemical compound...slushy muck, see told yo[grin[

even.

Thanks, I have learnt this the hard way now. Greyish slush. But thankfully, I only put 3 potatoes through the blender, there were already 10 in the caserolle..